The characterisation and future sustainability of a rural landscape: using integrated approaches for temporal heritage landscape analysis in Northwest Spain

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dc.contributor.authorHearn, Kyle Patrick
dc.contributor.authorFagerholm, Nora
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-30T10:40:07Z
dc.date.available2025-05-30T10:40:07Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-01
dc.date.updated2025-05-30T10:40:07Z
dc.description.abstractContext: Changing global socioeconomics are endangering agrosilvopastoral landscapes and with them the knowledge of maintaining these historical, sustainable forms of territorial management. Approaches that integrate Local Spatial Knowledge (LSK) with scientific methods are valuable means to understand their landscape heritage, identity, and temporal land use and land cover (LULC). Objectives: Our aim is to utilise an interdisciplinary approach that combines ‘bottom-up’ ethnographic/participatory studies with ‘top-down’ Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) to characterise and analyse past and present LULC changes and evaluate the future sustainability of a rural cultural landscape case study. Methods: We mapped LULC between the 1900s and the 2010s in a case study in NW Spain. Our approach initially utilised a landscape perception study and participatory mapping of LSK. These ethnographic data were integrated into the HLC temporal maps to characterise and analyse LULC evolution. Using the HLC maps, a statistical analysis of temporal changes of landscape attributes was completed. Results: The perception study revealed a decline in biodiversity and agrosilvopastoralism. Participatory mapping generated new spatial data of historical land cover and land use traditions indicative of multifunctional rural landscapes. HLC maps, utilising empirical sources and participatory data, corroborated ethnographic perceptions of a loss of landscape multifunctionality due to depopulation. Conclusions: This integrative approach underscores a landscape marked by abandonment, increased vegetative growth, nature conservation measures, and wildfires. This study highlights the value of inter and transdisciplinary approaches to analyse and understand temporal landscape change. The research’s newly created spatial data can be used as a potential planning tool for sustainable rural development, adaptation to climate change, and heritage conservation.en
dc.description.sponsorshipFinancial support is from the project LOKI (Local Economies, Imperial Economy: Western Iberia (II B.C.–II A.D.) PID2019-104297GB-I00) Project of the I + D + i of the Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain. PI: Inés Sastreen
dc.identifier.citationHearn, K. P., & Fagerholm, N. (2025). The characterisation and future sustainability of a rural landscape: using integrated approaches for temporal heritage landscape analysis in Northwest Spain. Landscape Ecology, 40(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/S10980-025-02083-3
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/S10980-025-02083-3
dc.identifier.eissn1572-9761
dc.identifier.issn0921-2973
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2876
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2025
dc.subject.otherAgrosilvopastoral landscapes
dc.subject.otherHistoric Landscape Characterisation
dc.subject.otherInterdisciplinary approaches
dc.subject.otherLandscape abandonment
dc.subject.otherParticipatory mapping
dc.subject.otherTemporal LULC analyses
dc.titleThe characterisation and future sustainability of a rural landscape: using integrated approaches for temporal heritage landscape analysis in Northwest Spainen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.issue4
oaire.citation.titleLandscape Ecology
oaire.citation.volume40
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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