Large landscape transformations were an integral part of the agricultural revolution in Sweden, starting during the late 18th century. The 19th century was an especially intensive century when it comes to the transformation of the cultural landscape, not the least marked by extensive changes in the use of agricultural wetlands with interventions in...
This paper presents the results of geographical and historical research concerning the development of the village of Wilamów in Szadek municipality. The village belonged to the royal estates, but for most of the surveyed period it remained under the tenancy of the nobility. The study analyses socio-economic changes using tax registers, inspection r...
Populations, peuplement et territoires : ces trois termes sont très liés entre eux. C’est donc en questionnant leurs interactions en France que ces notions de populations, peuplement et territoires sont appréhendées dans cet ouvrage. Trois grilles de lecture différentes de ces interactions sont pro-posées.Dans la première partie, l’accent est mis s...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
Agricultural land use has recently peaked, both globally and across country income groups, after centuries of expansion and intensification. Such shifts in the evolution of global land use have implications for food security, biodiversity loss, and carbon emissions. While economic growth and land use are closely linked, it is difficult to determine...
The article presents the results of research on the spatial dimension of selected aspects of socio-economic life in the countryside around Szadek in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. The analysis was carried out on the basis of a query of articles and notes from two provincial magazines published in the a...
Published in Journal of Mountain Science
Climate change induces profound changes in mountain territories that affect the activities pursued there. Tourism is one activity that is strongly impacted by these changes. Most research on tourism in mountain regions has focused on winter sports tourism, but glacier tourism, a summer activity, is also severely affected by climate change-induced p...
Rivers form major traffic arteries in pre-modern Central Europe and accurate regional to supra-regional network models of inland navigation are crucial for economic history. However, navigation distances have hitherto been based on modern flow distances, which could be a significant source of error due to modern changes in flow distance and channel...
La France compte cinq départements d’outre-mer, tous situés à des milliers de kilomètres de la métropole : Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, La Réunion et, enfin, Mayotte, département depuis 2011. La combinaison de la géographie historique de leur population et de leurs évolutions démographiques contemporaines, dans le contexte de territoires de supe...
Published in Royal Society Open Science
Historical ecology is an important tool in deciphering human–environment interactions imprinted on landscapes throughout time. However, gaps of knowledge still remain regarding the land use legacies hidden in the current Atlantic Forest landscape; and also regarding how this information can help management of the remaining forest cover. The social-...
Published in Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica
Sichuan province is very famous for its abundant resources of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM).However, within the scope of administrative division of Sichuan province, the origin records of Dao-di herbs in different historical periods show a dynamic distribution process. On the basis of carefully sorting out the geographical scope of Sichuan prov...
