Cultural heritage connectivity. A tool for EIA in transportation infrastructure planning

Abstract

The paper is concerned incorporating landscapes ecological and cultural values in infrastructure planning. We focus on cultural heritage connectivity in the context of environmental impact statements in transportation infrastructure planning. Using a case study from south-central Sweden cultural heritage indicators from maps were defined, and a GIS-based automated search tool is developed for analysing cultural heritage connectivity from an antiquarian perspective. Analyses of cultural heritage connectivity can inform about the historical and/or present function of the landscape and its social and economic conditions. While this type of connectivity can be searched out using information from maps, a difficulty lies in communicating the knowledge in an interesting way to non-experts. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Landscape; Environmental impact assessment-handbooks; Ecology; Planning process; Planning practice

Published in

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
2010, volume: 15, number: 8, pages: 463-472
Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

SLU Authors

• Angelstam, Per

  • School for Forest Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2010.05.003

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/47852