The need to preserve cultural heritage / Karol Krol, Jozef Hernik, Barbara Prus, and Marta Szylar -- The Italian national register of historical rural landscapes / Mauro Agnoletti and Antonio Santoro -- Cultural heritage in the region of eastern Slovakia / Slavomir Marcincak, Boris Semjon, Peter Turek, and Frantisek Zigo -- Agricultural and food heritage of the Moravian region / Martin Kral, Matej Pospiech, Lucia Hodulova, and Josef Kamenik -- Wine quality as a part of cultural heritage affected by different geographical origins / Martina Fikselova, Andrea Mendelova, and Jan Gazo -- Food and meals in Czech lands from a cultural-historical perspective / Josef Kamenik -- Regional gastronomy and the preservation of cultural heritage / Agnieszka Filipiak-Florkiewicz, Kinga Topolska, and Adam Florkiewicz -- Ruthenian culinary traditions of Lemkivshchyna / Marcin ¿ukasiewicz, Gabriela Zie·c, Kinga Topolska, Wiktor Berski, and Adam Florkiewicz -- Genetic uniqueness of local cattle populations as part of homeland heritage / Radovan Kasarda and Nina Moravcikova -- Objectification of reliability of selected methods of identification and quantification of meat and its substitutes / Jozef Golian, Zuzana Drdolova, and Lucia Benesova -- Traditional cheeses from the Ma¿opolska region / Dorota Najgebauer-Lejko, Jacek Domaga¿a, and Maria Walczycka -- Traditional unfermented and fermented liquid milk products from the Ma¿opolska region / Jacek Domaga¿a, Dorota Najgebauer-Lejko, and Maria Walczycka -- Farm animals and traditional products of the Carpathian Mountains / W¿adys¿aw Migda¿, Maria Walczycka, ¿ukasz Migda¿ and Sylwestr Tabor -- Traditional crops cultivated in southern Ma¿opolska / Wiktor Berski, Gabriela Zie·c, and Marcin ¿ukasiewicz -- Fruits of traditional varieties / Jacek S¿upski, Piotr Ge·bczynski, and Emilia Bernas -- Edible mushrooms of the Polish Carpathians / Emilia Bernas, Jacek S¿upski, and Piotr Ge·bczynski -- Usage of wild growing plants as foodstuffs / Piotr Ge·bczynski, Emilia Bernas, and Jacek S¿upski -- Landscape ecological structure in a suburban area : case study / Renata Rozycka-Czas, Barbara Czesak, and Wojciech Sroka -- South African agriculture oenology, viticulture, land ownership, and sustainable development / Betty J. Harris and Edward Sankowski -- Metamorphosis of the Polish village as a result of semi-urbanisation / Magdalena Wilkosz- Mamcarczyk and Barbara Olczak -- Assessment of land-use and land-cover changes in a rural cultural landscape : a case study of a Polish municipality / Tomasz Noszczyk, Katarzyna Cegielska, and Anita Kukulska-Kozie¿ -- Land use and landscape in rural areas in China in forty years of reform and opening up / Gaiying Chen, Tomasz Noszczyk, Maria Nawiesniak-Caesar, Maria Pazdan, and Josef Hernik -- The rural area in historical cities / Bohdan Cherkes -- Sustainable economic development and cultural landscapes : some US-Poland comparisons and connections, with global context / Edward Sankowski, Betty J. Harris, and Jozef Hernik.
Summary:
Social and natural science knowledge can help us understand, evaluate, and intervene in the world, e.g., for the continuation of cultural heritage, for positively influencing land use, and for societal (notably sustainable) development, as shown in the twenty-four research studies in this book (about territory in multiple countries). Knowledge useful for sustaining cultural heritage linked with land use, and promoting development, may include contemporary science, or may be more traditional and informal knowledge. Knowledge may be primarily practical, (sometimes business-related, sometimes technological, part of local customs, household-centered, etc.) Knowledge may be displayed in traditional preparation of food, or in traditional farming and cattle-breeding; or in advanced genetics. These twenty-four research studies communicate knowledge useful for commerce, governance, science, and cultural exchange. Worldwide, but also at local and regional levels, cultural heritage is closely associated with land use (e.g., rural and, increasingly, urban culture and land). Changes need to be studied historically, to appreciate past and present, and to reach actively for a better future (which conserves some values rooted in the past). Food and drink, travel and tourism, cities (modest or expansive), country-sides, landscapes (agricultural, forested, urban, or other), vividly experienced, can fascinate and delight. Through attention to cultural heritage, humans can compare and contrast very different, even very distant locales, motivating both pilgrimages far away from home, and love of ones own more nearby surroundings, our homelands, or neighboring places. But societal development may also generate unease about possible dangers to, and losses of valuable aspects of cultural heritage, dangers and losses about land quality, and associated phenomena of innumerable sorts: wars, cultural decline, food insecurity, and so on. Such factors also figure in the analyses in this book.
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