Agricultural terraces as a proxy to landscape history on Madeira island, Portugal
Since the early fifteenth century, huge parts of the Portuguese island of Madeira have been transformed from a natural into a cultural landscape. The most eminent feature of this anthropogenic landscape change is agricultural terraces, which are extremely solid in structure and thus resilient to ero...
Main Authors: | Sandra Kiesow, Hans-Rudolf Bork |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação de Actividades Científicas
2017-12-01
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Series: | Ler História |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/2912 |
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