Iceland is covered with vast stretches of wilderness. The question is, how is it best protected?
Category: landscape
Rewilding or Landscape Conservation in Andalusia?
In Andalusia, the dehesa landscape dominates. The question is whether the protection of the dehesas serves to safeguard the cultural heritage or the biodiversity?
Rewilding – the Natural Climate Solution
Rewilding can’t alleviate all the climate challenges we face. However, it does offer a precious contribution, namely a decisive upgrade of carbon sequestration in forests, grassland and tundras. With biodiversity as an added bonus.
The Medieval Landscape as a Pastoral Christian Cosmos
The essence of the medieval Christian landscape was encapsulated in the idea of the beloved place of pleasure, Paradise
The Frightening Landscape in Northern Europe in the Early Middle Ages
During the first millennium, northern and eastern Europe was sparsely populated and devoid of anything but wilderness. How did it feel to live in this medieval world?
Medieval Europe in a Physiographical Sense
Turning the map of Europe upside down, we see a peculiar peninsula on either side surrounded by the Mediterranean and the Baltic, from where it struts into the Atlantic Ocean.
Medieval Landscapes – Two Points of View
How did people in the Middle Ages view their surroundings? What was their idea of a livable world? Which part was sacred? What profane? And what was wilderness? Did they even think of their world inside these dichotomies?
Wild Edible Plants in Medieval Spain
The history of medieval landscapes tells us of forests, groves and meadows sourced for wild edible plants and other fauna, which might help to survive despite fragile economic situations
Medieval Hilltop Villages and Castles in the Italian Landscape
The history behind the castle-building on hilltops in the medieval Mediterranean landscape – the incastellamento or incastellation – is nuanced
Deserted Medieval Landscape near Pier in the Northern Rhineland
Between Jülich and Düren in Northern Rhineland lies a bleak landscape scarred by lignite mining. Beneath lies a precious time warp of a medieval landscape