Cultural Heritage-Possibilities for Land-Centered Societal Development [E-Book]

Introduction -- 1. The need to preserve cultural heritage; Karol Kr�l et al -- 2. The Italian National Register of historical rural landscape; Mauro Agnoletti, Antonio Santoro -- 3. Cultural heritage in the region of Eastern Slovakia; Slavom�r Marcinč�k et al -- 4. Agricultural and food heritage of the Moravian region; Martin Kr�l et al -- 5. Wine quality as a part of cultural heritage affected by different geographical origins; Martina Fikselov� et al -- 6. Food and meals from a cultural-historical perspective; Josef Kamen�k -- 7. Regional gastronomy as transmitter of cultural heritage; Agnieszka Filipiak-Florkiewicz et al -- 8. Culinary traditions of the Lemkovyna; Marcin Łukasiewicz et al -- 9. Genetic uniqueness of local cattle populations as part of homeland heritage; Radovan Kasarda, Nina Moravč�kov� -- 10. Objectification of reliability of selected methods of identification and quantification of meat and its substitutes; Jozef Golian et al -- 11. Traditional cheeses from the Malopolska region; Dorota Najgebauer-Lejko, Jacek Domagała -- 12. Traditional unfermented and fermented liquid milk products from the Malopolska region; Domagała Jacek, Najgebauer-Lejko Dorota -- 13. Farm animals and traditional products of the Carpathian Mountains; Władysław Migdał et al -- 14. Traditional crops cultivated in southern Malopolska; W. Berski et al -- 15. Fruits of traditional varieties; Jacek Słupski et al -- 16. Edible mushrooms of the Polish Carpathians; Emilia Bernaś et al -- 17. Usage of wild growing plants as foodstuffs; Piotr Gębczyński et al -- 18. Ecological structure of cultural landscapes in suburban areas; Renata R�życka-Czas, Barbara Czesak -- 19. South African agriculture/viniculture, landownership, and sustainable development; Betty J. Harris, Edward Sankowski -- 20. Metamorphosis of the Polish villages as a result of semi-urbanization; Magdalena Wilkosz- Mamcarczyk, Barbara Olczak -- 21. Assessment of land-use and land-cover changes in a rural cultural landscape: the case of a Polish municipality; Tomasz Noszczyk et al -- 22. Land use and landscape in rural China after 40 years of reform and opening up; Chen Gaiying et al -- 23. Rural areas in historical cities; Bohdan Cherkes.24. Sustainable economic development and cultural landscapes: some US-Poland comparisons and connections; Edward Sankowski.

Social and natural science knowledge can help us understand, evaluate, and intervene in the world, e.g., for the continuation of cultural heritage, for positively influencing land use, and for societal (notably sustainable) development, as shown in the twenty-four research studies in this book (about territory in multiple countries). Knowledge useful for sustaining cultural heritage linked with land use, and promoting development, may include contemporary science, or may be more traditional and informal knowledge. Knowledge may be primarily practical, (sometimes business-related, sometimes technological, part of local customs, household-centered, etc.) Knowledge may be displayed in traditional preparation of food, or in traditional farming and cattle-breeding; or in advanced genetics. These twenty-four research studies communicate knowledge useful for commerce, governance, science, and cultural exchange. Worldwide, but also at local and regional levels, cultural heritage is closely associated with land use (e.g., rural and, increasingly, urban culture and land). Changes need to be studied historically, to appreciate past and present, and to reach actively for a better future (which conserves some values rooted in the past). Food and drink, travel and tourism, cities (modest or expansive), country-sides, landscapes (agricultural, forested, urban, or other), vividly experienced, can fascinate and delight. Through attention to cultural heritage, humans can compare and contrast very different, even very distant locales, motivating both pilgrimages far away from home, and love of one's own more nearby surroundings, our homelands, or neighboring places. But societal development may also generate unease about possible dangers to, and losses of valuable aspects of cultural heritage, dangers and losses about land quality, and associated phenomena of innumerable sorts: wars, cultural decline, food insecurity, and so on. Such factors also figure in the analyses in this book.