Land Use History and Historical Ecology

• ETH-Vorlesungsverzeichnis: 701-1633-00L Land Use History and Historical Ecology

  Herbstsemester 2012 - (jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung)

Dozierende

• M. Bürgi, U. Gimmi
  

Lernziel

• Knowing the main sources and methods to study the history of landscapes, land use and ecosystems
• Knowing the main trends in landscape change and land use history in Central Europe
• Being able to assess historical legacies of land use on landscapes and ecosystems

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• Course description
  
  • Cultural landscapes and most ecosystems are anthropogenically shaped over time, in an interactive process linking human needs with natural resources in a specific topographic and spatial setting. In this course we will learn how pattern and processes of landscapes as well as ecosystem functions have to be interpreted with an integrative historic-ecological approach.
• Course programme
  
  • Introdution to aims, approaches, main source types
  • Land use history in Switzerland in periods
  • Before 1750, 1750 – 1850, 1850 – 1950, since 1950
  • Historical ecology: Selected topics
  • Improving the land: Meliorations
  • Woodland history – studies from Zurich & Valais
  • Changes in biodiversity
  • History of nature protection
  • International land use history
  • Seminary – environmental history

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