Should Renaturalised and Recultivated Landscapes Appear in Landscape Typology?

• Main Authors: Luc Małgorzata, Szmańda Jacek
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2014-09-01
• Series: Quaestiones Geographicae
• Subjects: landscape classifications,landscape renaturalisation,landscape recultivation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2014-0030

Landscapes constantly change under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors. They can be destructive as well as leading to regeneration of landscapes which have been imbalanced. When this process occurs in a natural or human-controlled manner with the use of natural elements of the environment, it is called renaturalisation, and the resulting landscape - renaturalised landscape. Where landscape restitution occurs under the purposeful, sustainable and rational human influence, we talk of the recultivation process and the resulting landscape is termed recultivated. Examples of both of these terms added to landscape classification have been described based on several quarries existing within the City of Krakow.