Traditional Farming Landscapes for Sustainable Living in Scandinavia and Japan : Global Revival Through the Satoyama Initiative
(2014) In Ambio: a Journal of the Human Environment 43(5). p.559-578- Abstract
- Traditional, pre-industrial farming was adapted to the natural environment-topography, geology, hydrology, climate, and biota. Traditional land use systems are still to be traced in Scandinavia as an "infield/outland landscape", and in Japan as a "Satoyama landscape." There are obvious similarities and differences in land use-the main difference being that pasturing of cattle and sheep has been less important in Japan. These land use systems can be traced back to early sedentary settlements 1500-2500 years ago. In both regions, traditional management almost ceased in the mid-twentieth century leading to afforestation and decreased biological diversity. Today, there is in Japan a growing movement for landscape restoration and promotion of a... (More)
- Traditional, pre-industrial farming was adapted to the natural environment-topography, geology, hydrology, climate, and biota. Traditional land use systems are still to be traced in Scandinavia as an "infield/outland landscape", and in Japan as a "Satoyama landscape." There are obvious similarities and differences in land use-the main difference being that pasturing of cattle and sheep has been less important in Japan. These land use systems can be traced back to early sedentary settlements 1500-2500 years ago. In both regions, traditional management almost ceased in the mid-twentieth century leading to afforestation and decreased biological diversity. Today, there is in Japan a growing movement for landscape restoration and promotion of a sustainable living countryside based on local agrarian and forestry production, local energy, tourism, etc. With this background, the so-called Satoyama Initiative has been organized and introduced as a global socio-ecological project with ecosystem services for human well-being. (Less)
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- Berglund, Björn LU ; Kitagawa, Junko ; Lageras, Per ; Nakamura, Koji ; Sasaki, Naoko and Yasuda, Yoshinori
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- 2014
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- Contribution to journal
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- Agrarian land use history, Satoyama landscape, Infield/outland, Nature, restoration, Biodiversity changes, Deforestation history
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- Ambio: a Journal of the Human Environment
- volume
- 43
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 559 - 578
- publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
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- pmid:24700088
- wos:000340591400002
- scopus:84906313042
- pmid:24700088
- ISSN
- 0044-7447
- DOI
- 10.1007/s13280-014-0499-6
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- English
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