Biodiversity and land abandonment: Connecting agriculture, place and nature in the landscape

This chapter is part of a book which brings together theoretical and empirical research from 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia, South America and Japan.

The book offers a state-of-the-art survey of conceptual and methodological research and planning issues relating to landscape, heritage, [and] development.  It has 30 chapters grouped in four main thematic sections: landscapes as a constitutive dimension of territorial identities; landscape history and landscape heritage; landscapes as development assets and resources; and landscape research and development planning.