Metoder för kulturmiljöanalys

Abstract

Questions concerning the Cultural Heritage must be integrated in social planning. Therefore there is a need for adequate methods for cultural environmental analysis, to receive knowledge that is relevant in an integrated conservation. The thesis is a review of methods for cultural environmental analysis and discusses the qualifications necessary for a method in order to receive adequate information as well as it discusses what kind of information to be considered relevant. The thesis also analyzes a specific method for cultural environmental analysis in order to exam if it has got the qualifications concluded as necessary if it is to be used in an integrated conservation. The conclusion is that a method for cultural environmental analysis should collect information about the entire environment (integrated information about nature and culture, in a historical perspective and how it is today), about social structures, physical remains (buildings etc) and what the collected information tell about the history of the studied area, as well as what is important in the landscape of today. Information about how the environment should be treated in the future is also of importance. To receive adequate information it is necessary that the method can analyze the visual aspects of the contemporary landscape as well as the environment as a whole (nature and culture), that it can put focus on certain aspects of the environment (due to specific needs of knowledge), that the method is flexible in scale (detailed etc) as well as in what kind of environments it can be used. It must also make possible that the information collected is connected to possible changes in the future. The conclusion about the specific method analyzed in the thesis is that it fulfills the requirements that are considered to be of importance in an integrated conservation.