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Register of rural landscapes of the littoral Croatia – contribution to Mediterranean bio- cultural diversity research

The phenomenon of the Mediterranean rural landscape is only recently being revealed in the context of Croatia. Certain researches indicate exceptional landscape complexity as a result of long lasting human adaptations to various natural and socioeconomic conditions. However, in the national level, the subject of rural landscape is inadequately represented, interpreted and managed (as a result of the gap between nature protection and cultural heritage protection approaches) with absence of landscape registers. In the aforementioned context, the first integral regional landscape study Outstanding cultural landscape of the littoral Croatia was conducted. The cultural landscape was researched from the aspect of traditional land use applying the concepts of landscape character, landscape biography and using interdisciplinary landscape evaluation framework. Main outcomes were: rural landscape history research, classification and regionalization of rural landscapes, cultural landscapes evaluation framework and the register of 62 outstanding cultural landscapes. The landscape approach enabled bridging the natural/cultural heritage dichotomy in rural heritage interpretation and thus set integral framework for further research. In addition, the WebGIS platform for monitoring and collecting data is being developed with the final aim of making the Atlas of the littoral Croatia rural landscapes. This paper will present the key results of described research and argue its contribution to Mediterranean bio-cultural diversity research.

littoral Croatia ; Mediterranean cultural landscape ; cultural landscape evaluation ; landscape history ; outstanding cultural landscapes ; rural landscape classification

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