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: carlos.turon@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-7534-1481
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://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
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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