Has the generalisation regarding conservation of trees and shrubs in Swedish agricultural landscapes gone too far?

Event Ecology, Causal Historical Analysis, and Human–Environment Research

“…2 These researchers highlight the variation between different peoples and different places, and the complex manner in which local social and environmental changes can be influenced by both local and nonlocal factors (Blaikie 1989(Blaikie , 1995Peluso 1992;Vayda 1994Taylor and Garcia-Barrios 1995;Batterbury and Bebbington 1999;Dove 2000;Lambin et al 2001;Fox et al 2003;Walters 2003;Zimmerer and Bassett 2003;B. L. Turner, Geoghegan, and Foster 2004;Koning and Smaling 2005;Peterson 2005;Young, Berkhout, et al 2006). Such findings raise questions about conventional academic and policy narratives of local land and resource use.…”

Rural Landscapes: past processes and future strategies

“…While they regard the resulting landscape's wildness positively, they also regret the cultural losses suffered by rural communities. Peterson (2005) asks the question what do we really protect when we speak about landscape protection, is it the appearance of the landscape in one certain time period-and if this is the case, which time?-or the idea of the landscape in general. By interviewing farmers in the area about their trees and shrubs, about placing and management treatment, from now and back as long as they remember, large differences were found from one farm to another almost independent of natural conditions in the landscapes.…”

The population development of small trees and shrubs after 100 years of free succession of a wooded meadow in southern Sweden

“…Some species also had valuable wood properties (Austad and Hauge 1990). Finally, their occurrence in wooded meadows is part of our cultural legacy (Sjöbeck 1932;Peterson 2005).…”