Methodology to the study the evolving Landscape: an application for the Protected Area of the Sierra Nevada
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Abstract
The immense economic and social transformations of the last half century have caused significant changes to urban as well as rural landscapes that extend even to the ever-scarce natural spaces, regardless of whether or not they are legally protected. this set of circumstances makes it all the more necessary to embark on investigative work to explore our recent and distant landscape history.
This article sets forth a methodological proposal to respond to the need of formal studies concerning landscape evolution. the adaptation of landscapes to specific spatial confines within concrete time periods depends greatly on the type of resource exploitation and land planning imposed by local society during specific time periods as well as on the territorial model considered at the regional level. For that reason, we have designed a method of investigation starting with the proposal of a systematic analysis that uses the succession of different socio-territorial models as the key element to explain landscape evolution within a certain time period.