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- Title
Traditional Farming Landscapes for Sustainable Living in Scandinavia and Japan: Global Revival Through the Satoyama Initiative.
- Authors
Berglund, Björn; Kitagawa, Junko; Lagerås, Per; Nakamura, Koji; Sasaki, Naoko; Yasuda, Yoshinori
- 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 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.
- Subjects
SCANDINAVIA; TRADITIONAL farming; AGRICULTURE; SUSTAINABLE development; TOPOGRAPHY; FORESTS &; forestry; LAND use
- Publication
AMBIO - A Journal of the Human Environment, 2014, Vol 43, Issue 5, p559
- ISSN
0044-7447
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13280-014-0499-6