Abstract

International policies and guidelines often highlight the divide between ‘nature’ and ‘heritage’ in landscape management, and the weakness of monodisciplinary approaches. This study argues that historic agricultural practices have played a key role in shaping today’s landscapes, creating a heritage which affords opportunities for more sustainable landscape management. The paper develops a new interdisciplinary approach with particular reference to soil loss and degradation over the long term. It presents innovative methods for assessing and modelling how pre-industrial agricultural features can mitigate soil erosion risk in response to current environmental conditions. Landscape archaeology data presented through Historic Landscape Characterisation are integrated in a GIS-RUSLE model to illustrate the impact of varying historic land-uses on soil erosion. The resulting analyses could be used to inform strategies for sustainable land resource planning.

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Title
Modelling the impact of historic landscape change on soil erosion and degradation
Author
Brandolini, Filippo 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kinnaird, Tim C. 2 ; Srivastava, Aayush 2 ; Turner, Sam 1 

1  Newcastle University, McCord Centre for Landscape, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (GRID:grid.1006.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 0462 7212) 
2  University of St Andrews, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, UK (GRID:grid.11914.3c) (ISNI:0000 0001 0721 1626) 
Pages
4949
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31334-z
ProQuest document ID
2791456757
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.