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Creation of Cultural Landscapes – Decision-Making and Perception Within Specific Ecological Settings
This chapter starts with a theoretical introduction to the concept of the creation and perception of cultural landscapes. Niche construction theory...
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Extension of Sukur Cultural Landscape in Nigeria to incorporate the 16 DGB sites on the Wandala Cultural Landscape in Cameroon as a serial transboundary World Heritage site
As a result of a dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon over the ownership of the Bakasi Peninsula during the last two decades, other international...
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Family social and cultural capital: an analysis of effects on adolescents’ educational outcomes in China
Using a sample of 11,313 students in Grades 7 and 9 from the China Education Panel Survey, this study examines the effects of family social capital...
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A Sacred Tree in the Boreal forest: A Narrative About a Sámi Shaman, her Tree, and the Forest Landscape
Since the early nineteenth century, forest landscapes and socio-economic contexts have significantly changed in northernmost Sweden. These processes...
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Culture as a Trans-Scalar Encounter: The Increase of Livability Through the Integration of Landscape and Services
Alta Valtellina is a culturally complex and rich territory that has been dramatically transformed through the rise of skiing tourism, becoming one of...
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From risk reduction to a landscape of (un)desired outcomes: Climate migrants’ perceptions of migration success and failure
Much of the climate migration research examines whether migration is a successful/adaptive response that reduces climate risk or a failed/maladaptive...
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Revitalization and Touristification: The Vertical Cultural Landscape of Dacha Community in Siberia
The objective of this visual chapter is to reflect visually and socio-historically on the process of transformation and eventual revitalization of...
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Pung-su: Evolving Cultural Landscapes and Placemaking in Korea
In Korea, for choosing a site and settlement, the Pung-su principles, which interconnect the spirit of the natural landscape and human sensitivity,...
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Cultural Stability
Culture’s tendency to resist change, or to change only incrementally, is often described as one of its defining features. This resilience can be...
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The Route into Nature: The Landscape of Mobility
Nature is the principal attraction cited by tourists for visiting Iceland. The diverse natural attractions in various locations across the country...
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Cultural and spatial dimensions of sacred sites in Aravalli mountain range, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India
Comprehending the interplay between human society and environmental systems necessitates an understanding of their religious dimensions. Our research...
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Paul Johnson and the Cultural Logic of the British Hard Right
Within the British conservative movement, the hard right is identifiable and significant. The hard right tends to believe that Britain’s cultural...
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Map** the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape
In the current scientific and political discourse surrounding the transformation of the scientific publication system, significant attention is...
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Placemaking and Cultural Landscapes
Placemaking and cultural landscapes are worldwide multidisciplinary global concerns that cover many points of view of the common impacts of...
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Decomposing Cultural Adaptation and Social Support in Relation to New Media Use and Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants: a Chain Mediation Model
New media use contributed to reducing pandemic risks and maintaining interpersonal relationships, but compromised psychological well-being. Until...
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The Landscape of Black Placelessness: African American Place and Heritage on the Postwar Campus
This article examines the ways African American history is effaced, distorted, and re-interpreted on an urban university campus. We focus on the...
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Beef as intangible cultural heritage in Botswana: a documentary review
This article reviews the critical role of cattle and beef production, consumption practices, and symbolic values, among other elements, in...
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Harry Potter and the ‘Death of the Actor’: reimagining fusion in cultural pragmatics
To capture the deep world of meaning between audiences and actors in social performances, cultural pragmatics offers a helpful tool: by its logic,...
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Participatory Governance Models to Manage World Heritage Sites. Innovative Management Bodies from the Natural Site of the Chaîne des Puys-Limagne Fault Tectonic Arena and the Cultural Landscape of the Causses and the Cévennes
World Heritage sites, recognised for their cultural or natural values and as sustainable tourist destinations, must be preserved and controlled via...
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Being looked but not passively: reflections on the cross-cultural joint-sha** of China’s national image
Based on the study of “Looking China - Youth Film Project”, this article puts forward the concept of “joint-sha**” in cross-cultural national image...