TY - BOOK

T1 - Agrarian Landscape Management in a Modernized World

AU - Christensen, Andreas Aagaard

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - This PhD thesis presents a study of the causes and consequences of landuse modernization in Western agricultural landscapes. The thesis is basedon case study research in Denmark and New Zealand framed andinterpreted within the context of a broader-scale historical analysis ofmodernization processes within the Western world. Case landscapes inDenmark and New Zealand were selected based on a maximum variationsampling strategy, in order to be able to identify and analyse patterns ofchange manifesting across a variety of Western, modern agriculturallandscapes. The thesis consists of : (1) A historical analysis of social driversof land use change affecting agrarian landscapes in the Western world inthe period 1700-2000 based on a litterature review of modernizationtheory applied to two local scale historical case studies of changes inlandscape structure; (2) A national scale analysis based on archival andcartographic sources of the way selected modernization processes affectedrural land use patterns in New Zealand in the period from its first Europeancolonialexploration in the 17th century until the present. (3) A global scaleanalysis of historical patterns of modernization affecting rural land usepatterns within the Western world based on historical cartographicevidence, (4) A local scale analysis of the decision making practices oflandscape managers in four modern case landscapes in Denmark and NewZealand, based on interview surveys conducted in 2011 and 2012. Findingsindicate that the landscapes studied are affected by persistent moderndrivers of land use change which motivate a variety of local responses fromlandscape managers, leading to a range of different but comparable changetrajectories. Common patterns of change relating to drivers affecting thelandscapes are identified. A conceptual framework able to explain theidentified changes is presented and discussed in the context ofrecommendations for further research.

AB - This PhD thesis presents a study of the causes and consequences of landuse modernization in Western agricultural landscapes. The thesis is basedon case study research in Denmark and New Zealand framed andinterpreted within the context of a broader-scale historical analysis ofmodernization processes within the Western world. Case landscapes inDenmark and New Zealand were selected based on a maximum variationsampling strategy, in order to be able to identify and analyse patterns ofchange manifesting across a variety of Western, modern agriculturallandscapes. The thesis consists of : (1) A historical analysis of social driversof land use change affecting agrarian landscapes in the Western world inthe period 1700-2000 based on a litterature review of modernizationtheory applied to two local scale historical case studies of changes inlandscape structure; (2) A national scale analysis based on archival andcartographic sources of the way selected modernization processes affectedrural land use patterns in New Zealand in the period from its first Europeancolonialexploration in the 17th century until the present. (3) A global scaleanalysis of historical patterns of modernization affecting rural land usepatterns within the Western world based on historical cartographicevidence, (4) A local scale analysis of the decision making practices oflandscape managers in four modern case landscapes in Denmark and NewZealand, based on interview surveys conducted in 2011 and 2012. Findingsindicate that the landscapes studied are affected by persistent moderndrivers of land use change which motivate a variety of local responses fromlandscape managers, leading to a range of different but comparable changetrajectories. Common patterns of change relating to drivers affecting thelandscapes are identified. A conceptual framework able to explain theidentified changes is presented and discussed in the context ofrecommendations for further research.

UR - https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/fbp0ps/alma99122524881805763

M3 - Ph.D. thesis

BT - Agrarian Landscape Management in a Modernized World

PB - Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

ER -