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| Volume 111(2) 2011, pages: 117-130. | | Thanasis Kizos, Maria Vasdeki, Constantina Chatzikiriakou & Dimitra Dimitriou: | ‘For my children’: Different functions of the agricultural landscape and attitudes of farmers on different areas of Greece towards small scale landscape change | | Agricultural landscapes are valued with different sets of criteria by
different actors and stakeholders, including farmers, whose opinions
and attitudes can vary greatly. In this paper, farmers’ attitudes and
opinions towards small scale landscape change in different areas
of Greece (Koropi, Zagori and Lesvos) are presented. The areas
are very different in terms of landscape and the driving forces of
landscape change, with intense urban sprawl in Koropi urbanization
in Mytilini and abandonment in Kentriko Zagori. The comparison
of the attitudes, the evaluations and justifications farmers offer for
landscape change is used to understand the dynamics of this change.
Findings indicate that although common threads run through all
the cases, conflicts between the different roles are evident and the
attitudes reveal an antithesis between deep attachment to the land
and farming traditions on the one hand and market pressures on the
other, with important implications for rural and land use policies
that have to encourage a better balance between these different roles. | | >> download as pdf |
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