What is a natural landscape?
Landscapes tend to vary in their degree of naturalness. Westhoff, (1970) defines four types:
- a natural landscape is one that is unaffected by human activity
- a sub-natural landscape is one where if human activity was removed it would go back to a normal state
- a semi-natural landscape is one that has been drastically modified by human activity but has some natural elements left intact
- an agricultural landscape is one that has been totally altered and arranged by human activity - very little if any naturalness is left
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Which of the terms above best apply to the landscapes below? You might like to discuss your choices in the discussion forum. |
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Florence
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Ayers Rock
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Kakadu Wetlands
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