Author, as appears in the article.: Ripoll, Ramon; Gomis, Jordi; Turon, Carlos; Barbeta, Gabi; Chamorro, Miquel-Angel;

Department: Enginyeria Mecànica

URV's Author/s: Gomis Sánchez, Jordi / Turon Rodriguez, Carlos

Keywords: Variable plots Usable land Spain Regional poverty Profitability Poverty Population growth Nineteenth century Landscape Land use Dry stone Construction Catalonia Agricultural land Agricultural extension

Abstract: The relationship between traditional farmers with the physical characteristics of the site (material function) has long been analysed, but rarely has farmers' cultural relationship with their geographical environment (emotional function) been upheld. To demonstrate this duality implies finding farmland created both due to material profitability or family subsistence and due to psychological necessity or personal self-realization. For example, the transformation in the nineteenth century of desolate, stony unproductive landscapes in la Garriga d'Emporda -Catalonia-(of some 8 km(2)) into farmland, for poorer peasant families meant not only a minuscule means of material progress but above all a major means of social hope and human dignity. To confirm this duality is to corroborate that many functional territories are also emotional landscapes for those who farm them, mainly during the period of major agricultural expansion in Europe due to the growth in population at the onset of the modern era.

Thematic Areas: Geography, planning and development Geography, physical Geografía Engenharias i Earth-surface processes Computers in earth sciences Ciencias sociales Ciências agrárias i Biodiversidade

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: jordi.gomis@urv.cat carlos.turon@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0001-7779-7079 0000-0001-7534-1481

Record's date: 2023-05-13

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://technicalgeography.org/index.php/on-line-first/401-13_ripoll

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Geographia Technica. 16 (2): 160-170

APA: Ripoll, Ramon; Gomis, Jordi; Turon, Carlos; Barbeta, Gabi; Chamorro, Miquel-Angel; (2021). FUNCTIONAL LAND AND EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE. DRY STONE CONSTRUCTIONS IN LA GARRIGA D'EMPORDA IN THE 19TH CENTURY. Geographia Technica, 16(2), 160-170. DOI: 10.21163/GT_2021.162.13

Article's DOI: 10.21163/GT_2021.162.13

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2021

Publication Type: Journal Publications