Agricultural landscape

Typical agricultural landscape near the Trondheimfjord (Norway)

The agricultural landscape of southern Öland has been a Swedish World Heritage Site since 2000.

As agricultural landscape is referred to in the Geography one by the Agriculture designed landscape type . It is characterized through a certain uniformity, but can vary depending on agrarer use, subdivision and construction (residential and commercial buildings ) look different. Other factors influencing the appearance can be social, religious and historical factors such as grave fields or refuges . With the same spatial extent, the agricultural landscape can be viewed as an agricultural ecosystem .

The term is sometimes used synonymously with (the much more frequently used term) cultural landscape . There is no generally binding definition. In some publications, the agricultural landscape is an umbrella term above the economic and cultural landscapes. Other publications see the agricultural landscape (on a par with, for example, commercial forests or industrial landscapes) as a sub-category of the economic landscape and this in turn as a subdivision of the cultural landscape.

literature

• Stephan Dabbert , Sylvia Herrmann, Giselher Kaule, Michael Sommer: Landscape modeling for environmental planning. Springer Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-540-65044-X .

Remarks

1. ↑ Google query on October 31, 2014: Search term “agricultural landscape” yields approximately 163,000 results, search term “cultural landscape” yields approximately 762,000 results.
2. ↑ Gottfried Briemle: Land consolidation - enrichment or impoverishment of the cultural landscape? In: Swabian homeland. 29th vol., No. 4. Stuttgart 1978, pp. 226-233.
3. ↑ Hans Carol: The economic landscape and its cartographic representation. Kümmerly & Frey, Geographischer Verlag, Bern 1946.