Preface

1. Connecting cultural landscapes to resilience Tobias Plieninger and Claudia Bieling

Part I. Conceptualising Landscapes and Social-Ecological Systems
2. Landscapes as integrating frameworks for human, environmental and policy processes Paul Selman
3. From cultural landscapes to resilient social-ecological systems: transformation of a classical paradigm or a novel approach? Thomas Kirchoff, Fridolin Brand and Deborah Hoheisel
4. Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking Lesley Head
5. System or arena? Conceptual concerns around the analysis of landscape dynamics Marie Stenseke, Regina Lindborg, Annika Dhalberg and Elin Slatmo
6. Resilience thinking vs. political ecology: understanding the dynamics of small-scale, labour-intensive farming landscapes Mats Widgren

Part II. Analysing Landscape Resilience
7. In search of resilient behaviour: using the driving forces framework to study cultural landscapes Matthias Burgi, Felix Kienast and Anna M. Hersperger
8. Cultural landscapes as complex adaptive systems: the cases of northern Spain and northern Argentina Alejandro J. Rescia, Maria E. Perez-Corona, Paula Arribas-Urena and John W. Dover
9. Linking path dependency and resilience for the analysis of landscape development Andreas Rohring and Ludger Gailing
10. The sugar-cane landscape of the Caribbean islands: resilience, adaptation and transformation of the plantation social-ecological system William Found and Marta Berbes-Blazquez
11. Offshore wind farming on Germany's North Sea coast: tracing regime shifts across scales Kira Gee and Benjamin Burkhard

Part III. Managing Landscapes for Resilience
12. Collective efforts to manage cultural landscapes for resilience Katrin Prager
13. Response strategy assessment: a tool for evaluating resilience for the management of social-ecological systems Magnus Tuvendal and Thomas Elmqvist
14. Ecosystem services and social-ecological resilience in transhumance cultural landscapes: learning from the past, looking for a future Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Jose A. Gonzalez, Berta Martin-Lopez, Cesar A. Lopez and Carlos Montes
15. The role of homegardens in strengthening social-ecological resilience: case studies from Cuba and Austria Christine Van der Stege, Brigitte Vogl-Lukasser and Christian R. Vogl
16. Promises and pitfalls of adaptive management in resilience thinking: the lens of political ecology Betsy A. Beymer-Farris, Thomas J. Bassett and Ian Bryceson

Part IV. Perspectives for Resilient Landscapes
17. A heterarchy of knowledges: tools for the study of landscape histories and futures Carole L. Crumley
18. Towards a deeper understanding of the social in resilience: the contributions of cultural landscapes Ann P. Kinzig
19. Resilience and cultural landscapes: opportunities, relevance and ways ahead Claudia Bieling and Tobias Plieninger

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Tobias Plieninger is Head of the Ecosystem Services Research Group at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Research Fellow at the Geography Department, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. He is an environmental scientist with a commitment to inter- and transdisciplinary landscape research. He has researched and published extensively on the driving forces, processes and impacts of change in European cultural landscapes at various spatial and temporal scales. He serves on the committees of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL) and the IUCN European Sustainable Use Specialists Group.

Claudia Bieling is a landscape researcher at the Institute for Landscape Management at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Focusing on the mutual relations between people and place, she investigates land use and its various meanings for small-scale landowners and society. Her work particularly addresses landscape perceptions, immaterial benefits provided by landscapes ('cultural ecosystem services') and nature and heritage preservation in the context of private land use. She has studied these topics in an array of interdisciplinary projects on different land use forms, ranging from livestock husbandry and viticulture to forestry practices, and in different European regions.