Abstract
The end of tradition and of customary practices is a massive threat to heritage, history and biodiversity. Indeed, it can be argued that the end of traditional land management and the impacts then of cultural severance are as big a threat as climate change to biodiversity and ecology. This book considers the threats to biodiversity from cultural change and the abandonment of traditional management. In recent decades, we have heard much about climate change and the threats that this may pose in the future but in terms of biodiversity ‘The End of Tradition’ is potentially bigger and more current
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Agnoletti M (ed) (2006) The conservation of cultural landscapes. CAB International, Wallingford
Agnoletti M (ed) (2007) Guidelines for the implementation of social and cultural values in sustainable forest management. A scientific contribution to the implementation of MCPFE—Vienna resolution 3. IUFRO Occasional Paper No. 19 ISSN 1024-414X
Doncaster S, Egan D, Rotherham ID Harrison K (2006) The tourism economic argument for wetlands: a case study approach. In: Proceedings of the IALE conference, water and the landscape: the landscape ecology of freshwater ecosystems, 296–300
Lowenthal D (1985) The past is a foreign country. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Pyne SJ (2001) Fire—a brief history. The British Museum Press, London
Rotherham ID (1999) Peat cutters and their landscapes: fundamental change in a fragile environment. In: Peatland ecology and archaeology: management of a cultural landscape. Landscape Archaeol Ecol 4:28–51
Rotherham ID (2005) Fuel and landscape—exploitation, environment, crisis and continuum. Landscape Archaeol Ecol 5:65–81
Rotherham ID (2006) Historic landscape restoration: case studies of site recovery in post-industrial South Yorkshire, England. Agnoletti M (ed) The conservation of cultural landscapes. CABI International, Wallingford, 211–224
Rotherham ID (2007a) The implications of perceptions and cultural knowledge loss for the management of wooded landscapes: a UK case-study. For Ecol Manage 249:100–115
Rotherham ID (2007b) Cultural severance—causes and consequences. In: Cultural landscapes—changing landscapes. Delegate handbook, the international association for vegetation science: 50th annual symposium, University of Swansea, Swansea, pp 43–44, 22–27 July 2007
Rotherham ID, Harrison K (2009) South Yorkshire fens past, present and future: ecology and economics as drivers for re-wilding and restoration? In: Hall M (ed) Greening history: the presence of the past in environmental restoration. Routledge Publishing, London, pp 143–153
Rotherham ID (2008a) Tourism and recreation as economic drivers in future uplands. Aspects Appl Biol 85:93–98 (Shaping a vision for the uplands)
Rotherham ID (2008b) Lessons from the past—a case study of how upland land-use has influenced the environmental resource. Aspects Appl Biol 85:85–91 (Shaping a vision for the uplands)
Rotherham ID (2009a) The importance of cultural severance in landscape ecology research. In: Dupont A Jacobs H (eds) (2009) Landscape ecology research trends. Nova Science Publishers Inc., USA, Chapter 4 pp 1–18
Rotherham ID (2009b) Habitat fragmentation and isolation in relict urban heaths—the ecological consequences and future potential. In: Rotherham ID, Bradley J (eds) Lowland heaths: ecology, history, restoration and management. Wildtrack Publishing, Sheffield, pp 106–115
Rotherham ID (2009c) Cultural severance in landscapes and the causes and consequences for lowland heaths. In: Rotherham ID, Bradley J (eds) Lowland heaths: ecology, history, restoration and management. Wildtrack Publishing, Sheffield, pp 130–143
Rotherham ID (2010) Cultural severance and the end of tradition. Landscape Archaeol Ecol 8:178–199
Rotherham ID (2011) The Implications of landscape history and cultural severance in environmental restoration in England. In: Egan D, Hjerpe E, Abrams J (eds) Integrating nature and culture: the human dimensions of ecological restoration. Island Press, Washington, pp 277–287
Rotherham ID (ed) (2012a) Trees, man, and grazing animals—a European perspective on trees and grazed treescapes. Earthscan, London
Rotherham ID (2012b) Re-interpreting wooded landscapes, shadow woods and the impacts of grazing. Earthscan, London
Webb NR (1986) Heathlands. Collins, London
Webb NR (1998) The traditional management of European heathlands. J Appl Ecol 35:987–990
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Rotherham, I.D. (2013). Cultural Landscapes and Problems Associated with the Loss of Tradition and Custom: An Introduction and Overview. In: Rotherham, I. (eds) Cultural Severance and the Environment. Environmental History, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6159-9_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6159-9_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-6158-2
Online ISBN: 978-94-007-6159-9
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)