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Mapping landscapes identities at régional scales

Emilie Bourget
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The question of landscapes identities underlies lots of social questions (migrations, cultural specificities and art creation) and publics policies (wind energy development, rural landscapes planning, hedges plantations, landscapes attractivity...). Then understanding landscapes identities is obviously complex, as there are based on social-natural interactions changing at different spatial and historical times. In the case study of Brittany, landscapes have a certain identity at the European scale as a peninsula of western Europe and shared a certain number of specificities with other region form Portugal to Ireland (type of relief and vegetation, type of habitat and rural landscapes...). Then specificities come from a number of historical and cultural items, like names of places, historical monuments, cultural representations, wich are often resume as a landscape caricature. At regional scale, landscape identities reveal a large variety of situations according to specific territories (littoral versus rural, mountains versus plains, cattle production versus vegetable productions...). This mosaic is sometime quite difficult to map as fuzzy transition are common, and economical dynamics sensible. Different methods are here presented, using local landscapes classifications (out of MODIS images) witch are then post treated in order to extract landscape units at regional scale. But the question is also to evaluate how far these landscapes specificities are perceived either from local population and foreign people. A statistic analysis of information in tourist guides from 1873 to 2006 reveals how landscapes are perceived, forgiven, or discovered (types and interest). Crossing this interpretation of landscapes identities with local ethnological works, landscapes units descriptions, and landscapes conservations policies gives us interesting maps about this complex question of landscapes identity.

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hal-00367944 , version 1 (12-03-2009)

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Emilie Bourget, Laurence Le Dû-Blayo. Mapping landscapes identities at régional scales. Landscapes, identities and development, Sep 2008, Lisboa and Obidos, Portugal. pp.31. ⟨hal-00367944⟩
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