European Rural Landscapes

Contributing Authors Preface The Permanence of Persistence and Change.- The Languages of Rural Landscapes.- 'This Is Not a Landscape': Circulating Reference and Land Shaping.- Naming and Claiming Discourse.- Between Insideness and Outsideness - Studying Locals' Perceptions of Landscape.- Landscape Consumption in Otepää, Estonia.- Countryside Imagery in Finnish National Discourse.- Religious Places - Changing Meanings. The Case of Saaremaa Island, Estonia.- Of Oaks, Erratic Boulders, and Milkmaids.- The Border and the Bordered.- A Hidden World? A Gendered Perspective on Swedish Historical Maps.- When Sweden Was Put on the Map.- Tycho Brahe, Cartography and Landscape in 16th Century Scandinavia.- New Money and theLand Market.- The Landscape of Vittskövle Estate - At the Crossroads of Feudalism and Modernity.- Greens, Commons and Shifting Power Relations in Flanders.- Enclosure Landscapes in the Uplands of England and Wales.- Land Purchase and the Survival of Swedish Ethnicity in Estonia.- The Dynamics of Property Rights in Post-Communist East Germany.- Different Methods for the Protection of Cultural Landscapes.- The Significance of the Dutch GIS Histlands.- The Future Role of Agriculture in Rural Communities.- Danish Farmers and the Cultural Environment.- The Human Factor in Biodiversity.- Diversity of Estonian Coastal Landscapes: Past and Future.- Management Strategies in Forest Landscapes in Norway.- Past Landscape Use as an Ecological Influence on the Actual Environment.- Can Landscapes Be Read?.- The Permanent Conference and the Study of the Rural Landscape