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The Post-productivist landscape as an example of multifunctionality - Between the mythical and post-industrial wilderness

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KLVAČ Pavel MANDER Ulo ULČÁK Zbyněk MEIER Kadri

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Multifunctional Land Use: Meeting Future Demands for Landscape Goods and Services
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Faculty of Social Studies

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Field Sociology, demography
Keywords landscape; wilderness; multifunctionality
Description The term wilderness is nowadays often discussed as a contradiction to cultural landscape or landscape in general. Nevertheless, this distinction is not objective, but it is rather a cultural construct. In this sense Nature, traditionally perceived as independent phenomenon, is a socially constructed reality and the primary social demand for the countryside is a cultural one (Buller, 2001). In this paper it is argued that at least two important aspects in the perception of wilderness can be identified. The first where wilderness is represented as something cruel or ungovernable; the second one understands wilderness as uncultivated area. The evolution of wilderness perception is described together with the analysis of a transition towards a post-productivist countryside. A concept of post-industrial landscape is presented as a conjunction of previously characterised approaches, unifying culture and wilderness. Examples of cultural and biological importance of post-industrial landscape are described and visually presented, thus broadening the concept of landscape multifunctionality.
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