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Cultural landscape
Landscape, which is permanently embossed by humans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cultural landscape is a term used in the fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies, to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment. As defined by the World Heritage Committee, it is the "cultural properties [that] represent the combined works of nature and of man" and falls into three main categories: [1]
- "a landscape designed and created intentionally by man"
- an "organically evolved landscape" which may be a "relict (or fossil) landscape" or a "continuing landscape"
- an "associative cultural landscape" which may be valued because of the "religious, artistic or cultural associations of the natural element."
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