Download or read book Landscapes under Pressure written by Ludomir R. Lozny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the newly emerging interest to investigate and preserve cultural landscapes. It presents the historic, archaeological, ethnographic, and environmental traditions of cultural landscape study and the attempts to reconstruct and analyze the complex processes of cultural changes. It points to the benefits of interdisciplinary cooperation, which should involve an ecological approach with historical ecology, applied archaeology, and environmental planning.