Project description
Mapping how people shaped ancient landscapes informs strategies for sustainable futures
What was the impact of human activities during the late Holocene period? The answer to this question can be used to inform the development of sustainable conservation strategies for rural landscape heritage. The EU-funded HiLSS project will study this issue by considering both the cultural and natural values of landscape. It will focus on the relationships between sustainability and landscape heritage with particular reference to soil loss and degradation over the long term. Specifically, land use will be researched in two historically and culturally similar mountainous regions located in different climatic zones of Europe (Tuscan-Emilian Apennines in Italy and northern-mid Galicia in Spain). The project will identify the key historic characteristics of each region's landscape and quantify the effect on soil loss to examine how different management practices have affected them.
Objective
The HiLSS Project aims to investigate the relationships between sustainability and landscape heritage with particular reference to soil loss and degradation over the long term. The project will take a multidisciplinary approach that combines archaeology, Historical Landscape Characterisation (HLC), geosciences, and computer-based geospatial analysis (GIS - Geographical Information Systems) and modelling (RUSLE - Revisited Universal Soil Loss Equation). The research objectives of the HiLSS project are to quantify the impact of human activities during the Late Holocene in order to create spatial models which can inform the development of sustainable conservation strategies for rural landscape heritage.
This project will focus on two mountainous regions that present historical and cultural similarities but located in different climatic zones of Europe (1- Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, Italy; 2- Northern-mid Galicia, Spain). In previous HLC studies, land-use has been evaluated from the perspective of cultural heritage, whereas RUSLE have used it as a proxy for the land-cover of an area and its effect on soil erosion. The HiLSS project will propose an innovative methodology that combines both the historic/cultural values and the environmental values of land-use to inform development of a model for the sustainable conservation. By considering the different agricultural land-use HLC types in GIS-RUSLE modelling, it will be possible to quantify the effect on soil loss for each HLC type and consequently to devise more environmentally sustainable management for each type.
Environmental sustainability and historic landscape conservation are typically treated as two separate fields, but the HiLSS project will develop a transformative model for interdisciplinary research, proposing a new way to embrace both cultural and natural values as components of the same landscape management plans.
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic zones
- humanities history and archaeology archaeology
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
United Kingdom
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