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Standardizing Terminology for Landscape Categorization: an Irish Agri-environment Perspective

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The landscape of Ireland is multi-dimensional, reaching deep into the soil and rocks of the ground and embracing all of our heritage, the diversity of nature and the diversity of the marks and manifestations of humans (Aalen et al., 1997). It is experiential — experienced through all our senses (O’ Regan, 2008). The landscape is an open book: from an educational viewpoint it is a resource book of incomparable richness, though we have been accustomed to consult only a few pages. It belongs to all and it cannot survive unless all care for it, because particular pages are in the keeping of individuals who may not understand what they possess (Feehan, 1983). Everything in our landscape has historical roots and even the most recent examples of landscape features are part of a long chain of events that stretches back across centuries. The Irish landscape is a palimpsest containing differential traces of successive waves of anthropogenic (and primarily agrarian) modification of a recent post-glacial environment (Feehan, 2003).

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  1. Jackie Whelan
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  1. University of Nantes, France

    Marie Mianowski (lectures in Irish Studies and literature) (lectures in Irish Studies and literature)

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Whelan, J., Fry, J., Green, S. (2012). Standardizing Terminology for Landscape Categorization: an Irish Agri-environment Perspective. In: Mianowski, M. (eds) Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360297_17

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