Urban park is an important component of urban public green space which provides leisure, recreation, activity place, etc. Urban park service quality was evaluated by quantitative method in this paper to provide scientific evidence for renewal and development of urban park. 5 urban parks in Xinxiang, Henan province, China were selected as evaluation samples, and 13 indexes were evaluated, includ...

The study of the landscape was once the main subject of study in geography. Now, it is a core topic in many disciplines, such as geography and ecology, soil science and land survey, landscape architecture and planning, psychology and philosophy, history and archaeology. This essay analyses how this evolution came about in Europe in general and focuses then upon the Belgian situation. Landscape ...

With the widespread population growth in cities, anthropogenic influences inevitably lead to natural disturbances. The metropolitan area of Istanbul, with its rapid urbanization rate, has faced intense pressure regarding sustainability urban habitats. In this context, landscapes comprising patches affected by various disturbances and undergoing temporal changes must be analyzed, order assess ci...

The ecosystem services approach has been proposed as a powerful tool for the analysis of coupled social-ecological systems. This approach is particularly useful for the evaluation of cultural landscapes, which represent the joint evolution of humans and nature across an extended time span. Transhumance is a customary practice of mobile pastoralism, involving the regular seasonal migration of li...

the past and present, I am concerned about the low value placed on cultural landscapes by national and international agencies charged with promoting, protecting, and managing cultural heritage in the developing world. My research in Bolivia and Peru focuses on a particular class of unappreciated cultural landscape, the mundane, traditional agricultural landscape (Fig. 1).1 It is difficult to co...

In this paper we reject the nature-culture dichotomy by means of the idea of affordance or possibility for action, which has important implications for landscape theory. Our hypothesis is that, just as the idea of affordance can serve to overcome the subjective-objective dichotomy, the ideas of landscape and ecological niche, properly defined, would allow us to also transcend the nature-culture...

Application of GIS-based spatial analysis for archaeological site prediction and evaluation Predictive modelling of Aboriginal archaeological sites has been a common thread in Victorian archaeological practice for many decades. With the advance of GIS-based mapping methods, it is now possible to employ more sophisticated and automated techniques to characterise the available archaeological data...

The relevance of natural and cultural heritage preservation in their interaction seems indisputable at first glance. However, the management level this topic often becomes a stumbling block, which is quite clearly seen Russian World Heritage sites. This problem permanently discussed international level, methodological tools are actively supplemented by new developments on integrity interdepende...