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Traditional land-use and nature conservation in European rural landscapes by Plieninger, Tobias, Höchtl, Franz, Spek, Theo

“…Europe's countryside is characterised by a rich diversity of cultural landscapes and has been shaped by traditional land-uses. These landscapes provide…”
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Mapping Lost Woodland. An Attempt to Use the Spatial Distribution of Woodland-Related Place Names as a Proxy for Localizing Woodland in the Middle Ages by Groenewoudt, Bert, Eijgenraam, Gijs, Spek, Theo, Kosian, Menne

“…After many centuries, much of Europe is now largely deforested. Today, plans for reforestation are ongoing. These plans have the potential to significantly…”
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A Diachronic Triangular Perspective on Landscapes: a Conceptual Tool for Research and Management Applied to Wadden Sea Salt Marshes by Schepers, Mans, Meijles, Erik W., Bakker, Jan P., Spek, Theo

“…Strong disciplinary academic fragmentation and sectoral division in policies lead to problems regarding the management of landscapes. As a result, there is a…”
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Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries by PAULISSEN, MAURICE, VAN BEEK, ROY, NEKRASSOFF, SERGE, HUIJBENS, EDWARD H., SPEK, THEO

“…Commercialisation of resources taken from commons is considered problematic in several ways in traditional commons scholarship. In particular common-pool…”
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Archaeological features and absolute dating of historical road tracks in the North-western European Sand Belt: An interdisciplinary case study of a late medieval and early modern trade route at the Hoge Veluwe National Park (Central Netherlands) by Vletter, Willem, Spek, Theo

“…It is very difficult to obtain absolute historical datings of road features found at archaeological excavations. Nevertheless, various physical dating methods…”
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Digging in the past: New conceptual models in landscape history and their relevance in peri-urban landscapes by Palang, Hannes, Spek, Theo, Stenseke, Marie

“…► Landscape biographies enable bridging expert knowledge and local knowledge ► Path dependence theory helps to understand how events in the social life of…”
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Woodland Dynamics as a Result of Settlement Relocation on Pleistocene Sandy Soils in the Netherlands (200 BC–AD 1400) by Bert Groenewoudt, Theo Spek

“…In this paper we investigate the potential of charcoal kilns as indicators (proxy data) of the interaction between settlement dynamics and the history of…”
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Best travel options: Modelling Roman and early-medieval routes in the Netherlands using a multi-proxy approach by van Lanen, Rowin J., Kosian, Menne C., Groenewoudt, Bert J., Spek, Theo, Jansma, Esther

“…During the Roman and early-medieval period in the Netherlands, an extensive network of routes connected settlements on the local, regional and supraregional…”
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Anthropogenic drivers for exceptionally large meander formation during the Late Holocene by Quik, Cindy, Candel, Jasper H.J., Makaske, Bart, van Beek, Roy, Paulissen, Maurice, Maas, Gilbert J., Verplak, Menno, Spek, Theo, Wallinga, Jakob

“…Large-amplitude meanders may form in low-energy rivers despite generally limited mobility in theses systems. Exceptionally large meanders which even extend…”
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Route persistence. Modelling and quantifying historical route-network stability from the Roman period to early-modern times (AD 100–1600): a case study from the Netherlands by van Lanen, Rowin J., Groenewoudt, Bert J., Spek, Theo, Jansma, Esther

“…Research on route-network stability is rare. In time, due to cultural and/or natural causes, settlement locations and route orientation shift. The nature of…”
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