TY - JOUR
KW - Cold War
KW - cultural landscape
KW - Driving forces
KW - Resilience
KW - Romania
KW - Saxon population
KW - Tangible and intangible heritage
KW - Transylvania
KW - cultural heritage
KW - Economic analysis
KW - ecosystem resilience
KW - landscape structure
KW - migratory population
KW - political discourse
KW - questionnaire survey
KW - village
AU - Ileana Patru-Stupariu
AU - Marioara Pascu
AU - Matthias Burgi
AB - Landscape researchers tend to reduce the diversity of tangible heritage to physical aspects of cultural landscapes, from the wealth of intangible heritage they focus on land-use practices which have a direct and visible impact on the landscape. We suggest a comprehensive assessment of both tangible and intangible heritage, in order to more accurately assess the interconnection of local identity and the shaping of cultural landscapes. As an example, we looked at Saxon culture and cultural landscapes in southern Transylvania (Romania), where we assessed features of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, identified their resilience and the driving forces of their change. Our analysis, based on 74 interviews with residents in ten villages in southern Transylvania, showed a high resilience of tangible heritage and a low resilience of intangible heritage. A major factor responsible for changes in the Saxon heritage was a decline in the population at the end of the Cold War, due to migration, driven by political and economic factors. We conclude by discussing the specific merits of such an analysis for integrated landscape management.
DO - 10.3390/su11113102
M1 - 11
N1 - Publisher: MDPI
N2 - Landscape researchers tend to reduce the diversity of tangible heritage to physical aspects of cultural landscapes, from the wealth of intangible heritage they focus on land-use practices which have a direct and visible impact on the landscape. We suggest a comprehensive assessment of both tangible and intangible heritage, in order to more accurately assess the interconnection of local identity and the shaping of cultural landscapes. As an example, we looked at Saxon culture and cultural landscapes in southern Transylvania (Romania), where we assessed features of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, identified their resilience and the driving forces of their change. Our analysis, based on 74 interviews with residents in ten villages in southern Transylvania, showed a high resilience of tangible heritage and a low resilience of intangible heritage. A major factor responsible for changes in the Saxon heritage was a decline in the population at the end of the Cold War, due to migration, driven by political and economic factors. We conclude by discussing the specific merits of such an analysis for integrated landscape management.
TI - Exploring Tangible and Intangible Heritage and its Resilience as a Basis to Understand the Cultural Landscapes of Saxon Communities in Southern Transylvania (Romania)
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85067312898&doi=10.3390%2fsu11113102&partnerID=40&md5=c5df3852e000ae57afde7440e8471630
VL - 11
SN - 20711050 (ISSN)
ER -