The Cultural Landscape and Heritage Paradox

Protection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape and its European Dimension

Tom Bloemers, Henk Kars, Arnold Van der Valk, Mies Wijnen, Tom Bloemers, Henk Kars, Arnold Van der Valk, Mies Wijnen

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9789048510962
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• I. Introduction
• 1. The Cultural Landscape and Heritage Paradox. Protection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape and its European Dimension
• II. Insights and Prospects of Archeological-Historical Landscape Studies
• 1. Introduction to ‘Protecting and Developing the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape’ (PDL/BBO)
• 2. Planning the past. Lessons to be learned from ‘Protecting and Developing the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape’ (PDL/BBO)
• 3. Actors and orders: the shaping of landscapes and identities
• III. Linking Knowledge and Action
• 1. Linking knowledge to action: an introduction
• 2. The cultural biography of landscape as a tool for action research in the Drentsche Aa National Landscape (Northern Netherlands)
• 3. From inventory to identity? Constructing the Lahemaa National Park’s (Estonia) regional cultural heritage
• 4. A biography of the cultural landscape in the eastern Netherlands: theory and practice of acquisition and propagation of knowledge
• 5. The protection and management of the historic landscape in Scotland in the context of the European Landscape Convention
• 6. Assessing in situ preservation of archaeological wetland sites by chemical analysis of botanical remains and micromorphology
• 7. The ancient quarry and mining district between the Eifel and the Rhine: aims and progress of the Vulkanpark Osteifel Project
• IV. Imagination-Facts and Constructions
• 1. Imagination: facts and constructions. About imagination, authenticity and identity, and the value of interpretative heritage research
• 2. From Oer-IJ estuary to metropolitan coastal landscape. Assessing and preserving archaeological-historical resources from 4000 years of living between land and water
• 3. Two sorting-machines for the Oer-IJ
• 4. Images, attitudes and measures in the field of cultural heritage in Norway
• 5. The good, the bad and the self-referential. Heritage planning and the productivity of difference
• 6. Interpretative heritage research and the politics of democratization and de-democratization. As illustrated by the plight of hard-working amateurs in the trenches of revamped policy arrangements
• 7. Past pictures. Landscape visualization with digital tools
• 8. Gazing at places we have never been. Landscape, heritage and identity. A comment on Jörg Rekittke & Philip Paar: ‘Past Pictures. Landscape visualization with digital tools’
• 9. ‘Green’ and ‘blue’ developments. Prospects for research and conservation of early prehistoric hunter-gatherer landscapes
• 10. Presentation, appreciation and conservation of liminal landscapes: challenges from an Irish perspective (in response to the contribution by Bjørn Smit)
• 11. My Story – your Story: three levels for reflecting and debating the relationship between contemporary archaeological heritage management and the public. A comment from Germany
• V. Sharing Knowledge-Stories, Maps and Design
• 1. Introduction: sharing knowledge - stories, maps and design
• 2. Revitalizing history: moving from historical landscape reconstructions to heritage practices in the southern Netherlands
• 3. The role of historical expertise in today’s heritage management, landscape development and spatial planning
• 4. The potential of remote sensing, magnetometry and geochemical prospection in the characterization and inspection of archaeological sites and landscapes in the Netherlands
• 5. New developments in archaeological predictive modelling
• 6. Cultural heritage in environmental impact assessment – reflections from England and northwest Europe
• 7. On the necessity of congruent meanings in archaeological heritage management. An analysis of three case studies from a policy science perspective
• 8. Protection and management of Spanish archaeological-historical landscapes. Possibilities and perspectives for the application of a protective and developmental approach
• 9. Knowledge and legal action: a plea for conservation. Comment on ‘Protection and management of Spanish archaeological-historical landscapes. Possibilities and perspectives for the application of a protective and developmental approach’ by María Ruiz del Árbol & Almudena Orejas
• VI. Synthesis and Conclusions
• What have we learnt?
• VII. Management of Knowledge
• 1. The management of knowledge for integrative landscape research: an introduction
• 2. Elephant and Delta. In search of practical guidelines for interdisciplinary and strategic research
• 3. LANDMARKS. A project based on transnational and interdisciplinary scientific co-operation
• 4. The Planarch experience
• 5. Management of knowledge within the international and intersectoral research project ‘Cultural Landscapes
• 6. ‘Changing Landscapes’: an interdisciplinary Danish research centre
• 7. The PDL/BBO research programme analysed from the perspective of knowledge management
• 8. Cultural landscapes in the mirror. What information systems reveal about information management and cultural landscape research
• VIII. Agenda for the Future
• 1. Agenda for the future. What do we see and what do we take?
• 2. Heritage policy in spatial planning
• 3. Changing landscapes of archaeology and heritage
• IX. Summary
• X. Appendix
• 1. List of selected abbreviations
• 2. Glossary of specific subject-related concepts and terms used in this book
• 3. Protecting and Developing the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape/Bodemarchief in Behoud en Ontwikkeling (PDL/BBO): projects and programmes
• 4. List of authors, fields of activity and addresses
• Subject index
• Index of places and regions