Analyzing Transregional Vernacular Cultural Landscape Security Patterns with a Nature–Culture Lens: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Area, China

Jiaying Yan, Shuang Du (), Jinbo Zhang and Weiyu Yu
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Jiaying Yan: School of Ecological Technology and Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China
Shuang Du: School of Ecological Technology and Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China
Jinbo Zhang: Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institue Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200092, China
Weiyu Yu: School of Ecological Technology and Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-29

Abstract: Cultural landscape security is important to national spatial and cultural security. However, compared with the many achievements in the study of ecological security, transregional cultural landscape security research lacks enough attention to match its importance. In the context of advocacy of ‘connecting practices’ between nature and culture in the field of international heritage conservation, this paper developed an approach for constructing transregional vernacular cultural landscape security patterns and identifying the key protected areas. A method is put forward based on the case of the Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Area, one of the fastest urbanizing regions in China, and included the following three steps: (1) analyze the core values of the transregional vernacular cultural landscape from a long-time series and multi-scale perspective; (2) integrate ecological security assessment and value security evaluation by combining qualitative with quantitative methods; (3) build a comprehensive vernacular cultural landscape security pattern to identify key protected areas and develop a zoning and grading conservation strategy toolkit. The results proved that our new method could effectively build a cross-regional network of integrated spatial and functional relationships between the historical cultural and natural landscape and have great significance in improving the level of transregional territorial spatial governance.

Keywords: cultural landscape security pattern; vernacular cultural landscape; landscape heritage conservation and management; nature–culture; digital heritage landscapes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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