Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Landscape and Urban Planning, cilt.243, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
Agrosilvopastoralism is characterised by the combination of cultivation, grazing, and forestry. The biocultural equilibrium in agrosilvopastoral landscapes in the Mediterranean Region has been under constant transformation by either abandonment or intensification. Representing explicit layers of landscape memory, field names reveal how landscape has been temporally perceived, valued, and used. As there are multiple ways to understand landscape evolution, in this collaborative work, local field names are interpreted to trace the changes of agrosilvopastoral landscapes in two parts of the Mediterranean Region; in the village of Vila Chã de Braciosa in Miranda do Douro County, Portugal and the village of Çandır in Serik district, Turkey. Through the Participatory Mapping of traditional local spatial knowledge, field names were categorized by agricultural, silvicultural, and pastoral activities were compared with contemporary land cover classification. Toponymic interpretation results demonstrated that in both Portuguese and Turkish cases, agrosilvopastoralism has played a significant role in the historic anthropic interaction with the environment and reflects the past landscape management that is today marked by either land abandonment or commercial agriculture. Aspects of Mediterranean Region nations’ rural histories can be found in the local field and place names. They function not only as an indicator of past uses, but also have the potential of fostering a better understanding of more sustainable uses of the landscape as markers of traditional ecological knowledge.