Lairds, land and sustainability : Scottish perspectives on upland management
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Lairds, land and sustainability : Scottish perspectives on upland management
- Jaar:
- 2013
- URL:
- Contributor biographical information
Publisher description - Onderwerp:
- Landschapszorg. Groenbeheer. Openbare groenvoorziening
Land use, Rural
Uplands Management
Land use, Rural Environmental aspects
Sustainable development - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013
- Plaatsnummer:
- 712.1 / GLAS / 2013 (Kunstenbibliotheek)
- ISBN:
- 9780748645916
0748645918
9780748645909 - Paginering:
- xviii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Samenvatting:
- Scotland is at the heart of modern, sustainable upland management. Large estates cover vast areas of the uplands, with a long, complex and emotive history of ownership and use. In recent decades, the Scottish uplands have increasingly been the arena for passionate debates over large-scale land management issues. Crucially, what kinds of ownership and management will best deliver sustainable futures for upland environments and communities? Although the globally unique dominance of private ownership remains a distinctive characteristic of Scotland's uplands, increasing numbers of estates are now., pt. 1. Sustainability in the uplands -- pt. 2. Perspectives from private landownership -- pt. 3. Perspectives from community and NGO landownership -- pt. 4. Aligning upland estate management with sustainability.
- Nota:
- boek
- Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/kub01:000732205
