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How we can tell apart the shifting, interlocking patterns of the landscapes past or present – this is the challenge of this book taking the reader to the heart of the various societies of this cultural heritage that we call the European landscapes. Across the braod panel selected by the researchers it is the long-trailing memory of European history itself that emerges in the profuse scope of images and representations. By presenting some thirty cases the book displays the plurality of approaches undertaken in the research and analysis that has come to be part and parcel of the protection and safeguarding policies for the environmental and landscape heritage as well as the valorisation practices of this common cultural non-renewable asset.

During the period 2001-2003, the COST Action E25 conducted a European survey of forest field research and monitoring facilities. The survey was carried out as national inventories. The overall aim was to make a pan-European survey of valuable forest field research and monitoring facilities dedicated to long-term forest ecosystem or landscape research related to sustainable forest management.

Suburban building estates make up a large part of the European Urban Heritage. Most of the buildings – generally multi-family housing blocks consisting of small apartments – were completed after 1950 using low-cost technologies and are often characterised by poor quality in general.