Global climate change and the accelerated melting of glaciers have raised concerns about the ability to manage ice-snow environments. Historically, human ancestors have mastered the ecological wisdom ...of working with ice-snow environments, but the phenomenon has not yet been articulated in cultural landscape methodologies that emphasize “nature-culture relevance”. The challenging living environment often compels indigenous people to form a strong bond with their surroundings, leading to the creation of long-term ecological wisdom through synergistic relationships with the environment. This ecological environment is conceptualized as a cognitive space in the form of the landscape, with which the aboriginal community norms and individual spirits continually interact. Such interactions generate numerous non-material cultural evidences, such as culture, art, religion, and other ideological aspects of the nation. These evidences symbolize the intellectual outcome of the relationship between humans and the landscape, and they create the “spiritual relevance” through personification and contextualization. The aim of the study is to explore the traditional ecological wisdom of the Inuit people who live in the harsh Arctic, and analyze the Inuit's interaction with the landscape through the lens of “associative cultural landscape”, and decode the survival experience that the Inuit have accumulated through their long-term synergy with the Arctic environment. The findings focus on the synergy between the Inuit and the ice-snow landscape, examining the knowledge and ecological wisdom that the Inuit acquire from the ice-snow landscape. Our goal is to develop a perspective of the ecological environment from the viewpoint of aboriginal people and establish a methodology, model, and framework for “associative cultural landscape” that incorporates ethnic non-material cultural evidences. From the results, a total of nine models for interpreting traditional Inuit ecological wisdom are generated based on the “diamond model” of “associative cultural landscape”, covering the transition from the physical landscape to a spiritual one and demonstrating the associative role of the landscape in stimulating potential spiritual cognitive abilities in humans.
Customary and traditional villages, also called vernacular cultural landscapes, are local settlement units whose inhabitants adhere to ancestral beliefs. It is important to conduct research on ...vernacular cultural landscapes in Indonesia, given the usual and concerning degradation of cultural landscapes. Different places have different cultures and different customary rules and habits. Each has its uniqueness and distinctiveness, so there is no one standardized approach or method that can be adapted to study the vernacular cultural landscape. Different places may require different research approaches or methods; even the same place if studied under a different topic or time frame, may also require a different approach or method. There are research approaches commonly used by the researcher of the vernacular cultural landscape, including phenomenology, narrative study, case study, grounded theory, and ethnography. This article will review one approach that can be an alternative for the researcher of the vernacular cultural landscape, namely Symbolic Interactionism. Symbolic Interactionism is an approach that can be effectively applied to study human groups, community life, and social interactions. Symbolic interactionism is able to reveal the relationships that occur naturally among members of the society, particularly the relationship between intangible symbols, rules, norms, and daily activities, with tangible things such as the formation of space, buildings, circulation, and other physical configurations.
•This article explores the use of heritage at winery cellar-doors.•Interviews were conducted with representatives of wineries in southern Australia.•Participants used various form of heritage to ...reinforce their branding.•Unscripted storytelling emerged as a key strategy for engaging with tourists.•Authenticity was emphasised as a means of competitive advantage.
The nature of the cellar-door experience varies between wineries and regions. While the literature has identified heritage, storytelling and authenticity as important concepts regarding interaction with tourists at the cellar-door, there is a need to understand how they are operationalised by winery staff, including their strategic objectives. This article aims to explore how New World wineries are using their heritage to engage with tourists at their cellar-doors. The approach is qualitative, based on long semi-structured phenomenological interviews with eleven representatives of south-eastern Australia wineries to understand their lived experience. Findings suggest that the cellar-door represents an important opportunity to reinforce heritage branding and differentiate the winery from its competitors. Different forms of heritage were emphasised by participants, including family and ethnic heritage. Storytelling was seen as a useful strategy to engage with tourists and the importance of authenticity, both intrinsic and existential, was emphasised as a means of competitive advantage.
This paper sets the objective to verify, eight years after the recognition of the exceptional universal value of the UNESCO site Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato, which ...strategies have been adopted to save the memory value and resource role of the ciabòt, typology of rural architecture characterizing the landscape framework of the area. Which guidelines does the Piedmont Landscape Plan provide? Do censuses and variants to urban plans represent effective tools? Through an examination of the Site, the research has investigated the outcome of the protection actions undertaken - through the updating of planning tools and the declarations of notable cultural interest, consequent to the approval of the 2017 Regional Landscape Plan - and has discussed conservation and management issues related to this fragile heritage, with a perspective on culturally sustainable development.
Rural contexts have received legal and cultural attention since the late twentieth century, as a result of their social, political and economic development and in parallel with the evolution of the ...concept of heritage in the Charters and Conventions. In particular, for rural heritage, the time lag between the World Heritage Convention (1992) and the Icomos-Ifla Principles on Rural Landscapes as Heritage (2017) is significant. In relation to this issue, the contribution intends to retrace this evolution, carrying out reflections on some topics, such as: the inclusion of rural heritages in world and national lists (WHL, Italian Register of Historic Rural Landscapes); the different consideration given over time to architecture with respect to rural landscapes; the implications between rural heritage and the most recent environmental initiatives (Agenda 2030). With reference to the most recent Charters and documents on rural heritage and the current orientations to be traced back to the paradigms of the ecological transition - as well as through some examples, such as the Historic Rural Land- scape of the Land Reclamation in Valdichiana – it’s important to reflect about the possibility that these cultural tools can guide practices on rural landscape and restoration interventions on architecture, in order to protect them.
Cultural landscapes can contribute to positive environmental appraisals. However, previous studies focused on exposure to ingroup culture. Referring the debate in Europe on Muslim symbols in the ...public sphere, this study examines the effect of exposure to outgroup cultural cues on environmental appraisals. We compare environmental appraisals of participants from France, Germany, and the Netherlands after a simulated walk in an outgroup (Muslim) cultural landscape or a religiously-neutral environment. The effect of the Muslim setting was contingent on intolerance, with tolerant individuals reporting more positive environmental appraisals in the Muslim environment. However, this effect reversed as intolerance increased, and more intolerant individuals perceived the Muslim environment more negatively than the control. These findings offer an alternative view to the idea that the visibility of Muslim symbols in the public space has negative effects. Instead, we reveal a nuanced interplay between the urban environment, sociopolitical context and individual-level differences.
•Cultural landscapes contribute to positive environmental appraisals among ingroups.•Effect of exposure to outgroup cultural cues on environmental appraisals is unclear.•We propose a multi-country simulated experimental walk in Muslim setting.•Social and political intolerance defined valence of appraisal.•Urban environment, sociopolitical context, individual differences generate nuanced interplay.
Traditional rural landscapes host a biocultural heritage acquired by rural societies, developed in a secular adaptation with nature. Hedgerows play a key role in preserving biocultural diversity and ...associated ecosystem services. Despite their benefits, in some European regions inappropriate hedge management has led to a drastic degradation of hedgerows, with significant effects on natural and biocultural diversity, landscape connectivity and sustainable flow of ecosystem services. In Central Spain, an ancient hedgerow landscape constitutes a valuable natural and cultural heritage recognized by the establishment of different protection categories. We quantify the main tendency of change of this landscape over time, detecting a process of rural social-ecological decoupling both inside and outside protected areas. The hedgerow network has progressively been degraded and destructured together with the decline and local extinction of woody species, all of them of traditional use and some recorded in red lists for species conservation. This reveals weaknesses in the design and management plans of protected areas that should be effective in conserving the heritage of cultural landscapes and their valuable biocultural diversity and provision of ecosystem services. There is a need to elaborate regulations for the protection of hedgerow landscapes in the Spanish legislation, based on social-ecological relationships.
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•We studied an ancient hedgerow network of medieval origin in Central Spain.•There is a process of rural social-ecological decoupling of the hedgerow landscape.•The hedgerow network has been degraded both inside and outside protected areas.•Multiple use hedge species decline affecting the provision of ecosystem services.•New regulations for the protection of hedgerow landscapes are needed.
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