Abstract: Nearly all landscapes bear the imprint of humans, and the dichotomy between the ways human and natural landscapes are interpreted and managed is breaking down (Graf 2001; Vogel 2003; Heyd 2005). The likelihood that a landscape will be subject to direct human manipulation is related to economic or social objectives. These objectives may be incompatible with environmental objectives in creating landforms as functional and sustainable natural systems (Sauri-Pujol and Llurdes i Coit 1995; Graf 2001). One of the most vulnerable natural landscapes is...
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