Contents -- The Editor -- Contributors -- Introduction: Framing the Issue - a Trans-disciplinary Reflection on Cultural Landscapes -- PART I: ANALYSIS -- 1. The Development of a Historical and Cultural Evaluation Approach in Landscape Assessment: the Dynamic of Tuscan Landscape between 1832 and 2004 -- 2. Cultural Landscapes in Northern Forests - Time, Space and Affiliation to the Land -- 3. Energy Balance and Land Use: the Making of an Agrarian Landscape from the Vantage Point of Social Metabolism (the Catalan Vallès County in 1860/1870) -- 4. Earth Observation Techniques and Geographic Information Systems as Tools for Assessing Land Use/Cover Changes in a Landscape Context -- PART II: MANAGEMENT -- 5. The Project for the Rural Landscape Park in Moscheta (Tuscany, Italy) -- 6. Long-term Vegetation Dynamics in Southern Scandinavia and Their Use in Managing Landscapes for Biodiversity -- 7. Mountain Landscape, Pastoral Management and Traditional Practices in the Northern Pyrenees (France) -- 8. Maintaining Cultural and Natural Biodiversity in Europe's Economic Centre and Periphery -- 9. Rethinking Traditional Preservation Approaches for Managing a Forested Cultural Landscape: the Case of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park's Mount Tom Forest -- 10. Working Forest Landscapes: Two Case Studies from North Carolina -- 11. Restoration in the American National Forests: Ecological Processes and Cultural Landscapes -- 12. Land-use and Landscape Histories: the Role of History in Current Environmental Decisions -- 13. Cultural Landscape Management in Europe and Germany -- 14. The Restoration of Forest Landscapes through Farmland Afforestation Measures in Spain -- PART III: CASE STUDIES -- 15. Historic Landscape Restoration: Case Studies of Site Recovery in Post-industrial South Yorkshire, England.

16. Comparative International Research on Agricultural Land-use History and Forest Management Practices: the Tuscan Estate of Castello di Spannocchia and Vermont's Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park -- 17. Shaping the Landscape: Long-term Effects of the Historical Controversy about the Viennese Forest (Wienerwald) -- 18. Recovery and Valorization of a Historical Fruit Orchard: the Kolymbetra in the Temple Valley, Sicily -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- The colour plate section.