Integrating Nature and Heritage in the Boreal Forests of Scandinavia? Exploration of a Low-Budget Method

• The concepts landscape and biocultural heritage are based on anintegrated view of nature and cultural heritage. This paperinvestigates the potential of using a low-budget method forintegrating information on human impact and natural responsesin the vegetation of boreal forested Scandinavia. The informationfrom two national databases in Sweden – the National Inventoryof Landscapes in Sweden (NILS) covering surveyed vegetation,and the Register of Ancient Monuments (Fornsök) – werecombined and visualised using a Geographical Information System(GIS). In total, five sites were investigated. No connection betweenhuman impact and vegetation was detected at any of them. Thisnegative result is partly due to gaps in time and scale, but mainlyto sectorised survey methods not paying attention to bioculturalheritage, landscape perspectives or long-term processes. Thepaper concludes that further development of survey methods andregisters targeting contexts and processes are called for.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Biocultural heritage; integrated landscape studies; boreal forests; national survey databases; GIS

Risk and Environmental Studies

Risk- och miljöstudier

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