Knowra Cultural landscape Cultural landscape A landscape shaped by interactions between human activity and the natural environment. It includes both material traces of human use and meanings attached to places.
Landscape : An area of land considered in terms of its visible features, spatial relationships, and character. Cultural landscapes are a human-shaped subset of landscapes.
Agricultural landscape : A landscape shaped by farming, including fields, irrigation works, settlements, and related infrastructure. Farming creates distinctive patterns of cultivated land and supporting structures.
Carl O. Sauer : An American geographer who founded the Berkeley school of cultural geography. Sauer made the transformation of natural landscapes by human cultures central to cultural geography.
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras : A network of highland rice terraces in the Philippines, built and maintained by local communities. Its terraces and water systems demonstrate generations of adaptation to mountain terrain.
Natural landscape : A landscape whose visible character is predominantly shaped by natural processes rather than deliberate human activity. It contrasts with landscapes whose forms bear substantial evidence of human shaping.
Cultural geography : The study of how culture shapes places, landscapes, and spatial patterns. It examines the cultural practices and meanings that form landscapes.
Terrace cultivation : A farming method that creates level steps on slopes to retain soil and water. Terraces show how people adapt steep terrain for cultivation.
The Morphology of Landscape : A 1925 essay by Carl O. Sauer outlining a systematic approach to landscape study. The essay set out an influential account of culture shaping natural landscapes.
Bali Subak System : A cooperative irrigation system in Bali that coordinates water distribution among rice farmers. Its temples, canals, and fields show how social organization shapes agricultural land.
Wilderness : An area relatively undeveloped by intensive human settlement or infrastructure and often valued for natural character. The category emphasizes limited visible human alteration, unlike the cultural landscape focus.
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