Cultural Severance and the Environment

Part I. Setting the Scene on Cultural Severance and its Implications

1. Cultural Landscapes and Problems Associated with the Loss of Tradition and Custom: An Introduction and Overview
Ian D. Rotherham

2. Cultural Severance and the End of Tradition
Ian D. Rotherham

3. Globalism and the Enclosure of the Landscape Commons
Kenneth R. Olwig

4. A Natural Origin of the Commons: Interactions of People, Animals and Invisible Biodiversity
Ted Green

Part II. Case Studies of Cultural Landscapes from Around the World

5. Valorising the European Rural Landscape: The Case of the Italian National Register of Historical Rural Landscapes
Mauro Agnoletti

6. Severance of a Traditional Grazing Landscape in the Himalayas: Commons and Ecosystems in Crisis?
Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul

7. Early Wood Commons and Beyond
Della Hooke

8. What, How, and Why? Collecting Traditional Knowledge on Forest Uses in Switzerland
Matthias Bürgi, Martin Stuber

9. The History of Utilization and Management of Commons and Consequences of Current Social Change in the Alpine Region of Austria
Elisabeth Johann

10. Guided Pollards and the Basque Woodland During the Early Modern Age
Alvaro Aragón Ruano

11. The Evolution of Forest Landscapes in Spain’s Central Mountain Range: Different Forests for Different Traditional Uses
N. López Estébanez, G. Gomez Mediavilla, G. Madrazo García de Lomana, F. Allende Álvarez, E. Sáez Pombo

12. Of Commoners and Kings
Graham Bathe

13. The Cultural Landscape of Royal Hunting Gardens from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century in Białowieża Primeval Forest
Tomasz Samojlik, Ian D. Rotherham, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska

14. The End of Common Uses and Traditional Management in a Central European Wood
Péter Szabó

Part III. The History and Use of Landscape Commons

15. ‘A very fair field indeed…’: An Archaeology of the Common Lands of English Towns
Mark Bowden, Nicky Smith

16. From Pasture Woodland, via Deer Park and Common, to Cultural Severance: A Case Study of the Commons of Ashampstead, Berkshire
Dick Greenaway

17. Changing Cornish Commons
Peter Herring

18. The Commons of the Ancient Parish of Sheffield
David Hey

19. Traditional Uses, Destruction, Survival and Restoration of Common Land: A South Yorkshire Perspective
Melvyn Jones

20. Abandoned Landscapes of Former German Settlement in the Czech Republic and in Slovenia
Petr Mares, Robin Rasin, Primoz Pipan

21. Land Management and Biodiversity Through Time in Upper Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, UK: Understanding the Impact of Traditional Management
Helen Shaw, Ian Whyte

22. Policing the Commons in the Vale of York, c.1550–c.1850
Brodie Waddell

23. The Parliamentary Enclosure of Upland Commons in North–West England: Economic, Social and Cultural Impacts
Ian Whyte

Part IV. Issues and Approaches for Future Commons and Cultural Landscapes

24. Biodiversity Conservation and the Traditional Management of Common Land: The Case of the New Forest
Adrian C. Newton

25. Looking Back to the Future: Ancient, Working Pollards and Europe’s Silvo-Pastoral Systems
Jill Butler

26. Promoting Stewardship of New Commons: Lessons from WakeNature Partnership
Gary B. Blank, George R. Hess

27. End of Tradition, Reworking of Custom: Re-assembling Satoyama Woodlands on Tokyo’s Urban Fringe
Jay Bolthouse

28. New Commons for Old: Inspiring New Cultural Traditions
Duncan Mackay

29. Community Grassland Conservation on a Former Common in the Wye Valley, England
George Peterken

30. Upland Wood Pastures
Peter Quelch

Part V. Conclusions and Overview: The Implications of Severance for Future Landscapes

31. Concluding Thoughts on the Implications of Cultural Severance on Landscapes, Ecology and People
Ian D. Rotherham

Nyckelord: Environment, Environment, general, Ecosystems, Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Management, History, Human Geography