A cultural landscape is a landscape that has been formed under the influence of man.
German geographies such as Carl Ritter (1832), Joseph Wimmer (1885) and Friedrich Ratzel (1895-1596) introduced the term (historical) cultural landscape as a counterpart to the concept of natural landscape. The concept is strongly colored by the views of German national scientist W.H. Riehl, who emphasized the unity of people and land (Land und Leute). Similar perceptions had American George Perkins Marsh (1864) and Frenchman Paul Vidal de la Blache, who used the term paysage. Carl Sauer (1925), founder of cultural geography introduced the European Concept Framework in the United States; He presented the synthetic description of cultural landscapes against the strictly spatial approach of his colleague Richard Hartshorne. A polder with water inlet.
In Belgium and the Netherlands, almost every square meter belongs to the cultural landscape. The current agricultural culture landscapes are usually dewatered, peeled and unlocked. Cultural landscapes are not only used for agriculture but also for urban and industrial purposes, although often speaking of urban or industrial landscapes. Some ancient cultural landscapes are rich in biodiversity, presumably due to the limited and constant degree of human intervention. Due to loss of economic function, some of these landscapes have been threatened for a long time, as in the pagan landscape and brooklands.
Nature in the sense of wilderness is hardly anymore to be found. In fact, we can even say that the development of new nature represents a cultural phenomenon ("back to the natures") and that these "nature areas" are actually cultural landscapes formed under the influence of human thought and action. Also see Literature
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