Природное и культурное наследие: междисциплинарные исследования, сохранение и развитие. Коллективная монография по материалам IV Международной научно-практической конференциикнига
Аннотация:This paper examines the concept ‘sustainability’ applied to cultural landscape.
The importance of current investigation lies in growing attention to the preserv-ing of heritage in Russia. It is acknowledged that neglecting furthers the loss of aes-thetic and landscape variety. Present forms of management usually mean limitation human activity that does not maintain the whole landscape in appropriate way.
However some landscapes (estates, monasteries) still demonstrate almost pri-mary layout but others show only remains or even ruins. The research aims to inves-tigate conformities to law of landscapes’ founding and define the features of sustain-ability for developing optimal forms of protection.
This paper proposes two ways of defining sustainability in regards to cultural landscapes: environmental and anthropogenic. Environmental approach emphasizes the natural landscape conditions, and anthropogenic – maintenance of a layout (pat-tern, framework).
At present we do not set ourselves the purpose of developing clear categories and criteria of sustainability to cultural landscape. The author is aiming to reveal some features of sustainability.