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Detecting people’s and landscape’s identity in a changing mountain landscape. An example from the northern Apennines

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  • Rebekka Dossche
  • Elke Rogge
  • Veerle Van Eetvelde

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Mountain areas in the northern Apennines (Italy) were historically characterised by rural landscapes. Since the 1950s, rapid and widespread land abandonment caused large transformations in the landscape that resulted in a landscape identity crisis. Currently, many people continue to identify and associate themselves with a landscape that no longer exists, whilst others identify themselves with a future landscape that as yet does not exist. This paper explores the concept of landscape identity through empirical research based on a series of in-depth interviews, examination of the contextualised conspicuous spatial and temporal changes and consideration of individual and collective identities. Therefore, firstly, factors influencing the changes in landscape identity through time are identified and, secondly, so-called ‘tipping points’ and their consequential impacts on landscape identity loss or change are detected. Finally, it is the intention of this article to explore and discover the ways in which the concept of landscape identity can be approached and employed in a continuously changing environment.

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  • Rebekka Dossche & Elke Rogge & Veerle Van Eetvelde, 2016. "Detecting people’s and landscape’s identity in a changing mountain landscape. An example from the northern Apennines," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(8), pages 934-949, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:41:y:2016:i:8:p:934-949
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2016.1187266
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    1. Knaps, Falco & Herrmann, Sylvia & Mölders, Tanja, 2022. "Landscape identity: Approaches to its conceptualisation, capture and integration into place branding processes," Forschungsberichte der ARL: Aufsätze, in: Spatial transformation: Processes, strategies, research design, volume 19, pages 164-178, ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.

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