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In the 1990s the term cultural landscape was adopted by various international bodies as a conservation category. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee agreed in 1992 on revised operational guidelines specifying that cultural landscapes could be protected in accordance with the World Heritage Convention of 1972 (Eidsvik 1993; Rössler 1995; Aitchison 1996). In 1995 the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a Recommendation on the Integrated Conservation of Cultural Landscapes Areas as Part of Landscape Policies (Darvill 1996). As an academic term, cultural landscape goes back to Friedrich Ratzel (1895–1896), and was in frequent use among other German geographers in the early 20th century. The term was introduced to the English-speaking world by Carl O. Sauer (1925) and became central in the work of the Berkeley school of geography. Geographers and ethnologists used it in the Nordic countries in the interwar period (e.g. Tschudi 1934–1935; Smeds 1935; Campbell 1936). From the 1960s, the term cultural landscape became increasingly adopted in other disciplines and entered the terminology of environmental management.
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Jones, M. (2003). The Concept of Cultural Landscape: Discourse and Narratives. In: Palang, H., Fry, G. (eds) Landscape Interfaces. Landscape series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0189-1_3
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