Recent years have witnessed much debate on the turn towards community within landscape management and planning. This is particularly evident in the European Landscape Convention which asserts the legitimacy of local ...
Incorporating public or local preferences in landscape planning is often discussed with respect to the difficulties associated with accurate representation, stimulating interest and overcoming barriers to participation. ...
A contingent valuation survey was undertaken to estimate the public benefits of landscape changes that could arise from reductions in grazing levels using the example of the Central Southern Uplands of Scotland. A dichotomous ...
The research attempts to quantify the public benefits of landscape and environmental change that may arise from new land-use policies.
The case of upland grazing extensification is examined for which the associated ...
This paper examines how the semantic locality of a search operator affects the fitness landscape of Genetic Programming (GP). We compare the fitness landscapes of GP search when standard subtree mutation and a recently ...
Focus group research is rarely used for examining environmental discourses other than when conflict arises. This study looks at local citizen perceptions in relation to mined (or 'cutaway') industrial peatland landscapes ...
Collier, Marcus; Mullins, Ewen(EDP Sciences and the ISBR (International Society for Biosafety Research), 2010-07-05)
While significant progress has been made on the modification of crops for the benefit of producers, the same
cannot be said in regards to eliciting the potential impact that these crops may have on the wider landscape
and ...
In some parts of Europe, stone wall field boundaries pervade
agricultural landscapes, yet despite their prominence there has been very
little research into field boundary walls anywhere. However, these
anthropogenic ...
This study addresses the landscape context of Atlantic rock art, comparing three study areas in Ireland; the Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal, the Louth/Monaghan area, and the Dingle Peninsula,Kerry. Recent dating evidence ...
Capsule The Field Boundary Evaluation and Grading System (FBEGS) is a useful predictor of bird populations found in field boundaries located in southeast Ireland.
Aims To assess the potential of FBEGS to evaluate the ...