Ebook: Nature’s Ideological Landscape: A Literary and Geographic Perspective on Its Development and Preservation on Denmark’s Jutland Heath

This study traces the common ideological roots of two apparently contradictory activities: environmental reclamation and nature preservation. Taking its point of departure in the general context of European, British and American historical experience, it focuses on the case of the reclamation and preservation of the Jutland heaths of Denmark. This concrete example provides a basis for a general critique of European and American policy concerning the use of landscape. It is especially directed to the ideological and practical contradictions between development and preservation, particularly in underdeveloped regions, and the contradictions between scientific, historic, aesthetic and recreational motivations for preservation.

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This study traces the common ideological roots of two apparently contradictory activities: environmental reclamation and nature preservation. Taking its point of departure in the general context of European, British and American historical experience, it focuses on the case of the reclamation and preservation of the Jutland heaths of Denmark. This concrete example provides a basis for a general critique of European and American policy concerning the use of landscape. It is especially directed to the ideological and practical contradictions between development and preservation, particularly in underdeveloped regions, and the contradictions between scientific, historic, aesthetic and recreational motivations for preservation.