Peer-reviewed scientific journalOpen AccessISSN 2754-7612 (Online)
One of the oldest, but also most efficient, adaptations of humans to harsh living conditions is the terracing of steep mountain slopes in different climatic zones on all continents. Research and scientific studies on terraced landscapes have intensified in recent decades. This journal aims to contribute to these and focus on current, neglected and stimulating topics.
Publisher: University of Coventry, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR)
Coventry, United Kingdom, in cooperation with ITLA
January 2026
5 open access articles
With the model project of land consolidation in Rhineland-Palatinate, which was launched in 2012, an integrated planning approach made a significant contribution to the preservation and design of a steep-slope relict growing area in the last two steep slope…
This article presents an appraisal of ideas generated by extant scientific studies and oral testimonies. The focus, nomenclature and local knowledge is a way to highlight the conceptual universe from the perspective of local people in the terms and categories…
Terraced landscapes are one of Switzerland’s characteristic cultural landscapes, but until now there has been no spatially explicit cartographic representation or characterisation of them. We have taken on this challenge. In this article, we primarily…
Terraced landscapes are living cultural and ecological systems shaped over centuries, integrating geology, climate, and local resources. Their preservation depends on active inhabitation, cultivation, and care. Architecture mediates between historical forms…
The construction of these extraordinary territorial structures, whose main purpose was the cultivation of the land and the production of food, involved both prodigious physical work and a remarkable task of design and construction exactly embedded in the…
January 2026
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Frank BÖWINGLOH & Heiko STUMM
With the model project of land consolidation in Rhineland-Palatinate, which was launched in 2012, an integrated planning approach made a significant contribution to the preservation and design of a steep-slope relict growing area in the last two steep slope…
Maruja SALAS
This article presents an appraisal of ideas generated by extant scientific studies and oral testimonies. The focus, nomenclature and local knowledge is a way to highlight the conceptual universe from the perspective of local people in the terms and categories…
Dan MARMET, Stephan SCHNEIDER and Karina LIECHTI
Terraced landscapes are one of Switzerland’s characteristic cultural landscapes, but until now there has been no spatially explicit cartographic representation or characterisation of them. We have taken on this challenge. In this article, we primarily…
Giorgia DE PASQUALE
Terraced landscapes are living cultural and ecological systems shaped over centuries, integrating geology, climate, and local resources. Their preservation depends on active inhabitation, cultivation, and care. Architecture mediates between historical forms…
Jaime IZQUIERDO
The construction of these extraordinary territorial structures, whose main purpose was the cultivation of the land and the production of food, involved both prodigious physical work and a remarkable task of design and construction exactly embedded in the…
December 2020
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Lianet CAMARA
Women in agriculture have always played a fundamental, significant and irreplaceable role. A large percentage of women live in rural areas and contribute to family values, well-being and the development of the rural economy. This work is the result of field…
Liliana FERREIRA
Since the early settlement of Madeira Archipelago women have always played an important role in the history of family agriculture. In addition to their household tasks, they had to collaborate with the work on the fields among other farming activities…
Irma IZQUIERDO SUÁREZ and Lidia Esther ROMERO MARTÍN
This work aims to contribute to the knowledge of the way of life of the inhabitants of terraced agricultural landscapes, with special attention to the work carried out by women and to the self-recognition of the value of their work. For this, it is necessary…
Constanze SIXT
This article reflects on the intertwining of art, architecture and landscape in the work of the artist and educator Anni Albers. It focuses on the tectonic quality of weaving as a central theme in Albers’s oeuvre, which she developed following her studies at…
October 2020
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Augusto PÉREZ ALBERTI
The aim of this study was to understand the distribution of terraces in Galicia. First, a detailed cartography was created based on GIS tools. For this purpose, a digital model with a resolution of 2 m was used, together with orthophotos with a resolution of…
Timmi TILLMANN, Jorge NOVO and Mirbel EPIQUIÉN
The inventory of terraces in Peru in most regions was initiated in 2011 as part of a reconstruction project funded by the IDB and implemented by Agrorural, the extension agency of the Ministry of Agriculture. The aim was to identify areas of agricultural…
Yuichi KURODA
Rice terraces, or “Tanada”, are a rural landscape synonymous with Japan. However, the rice terraces have been devastated due to the decline and obsolescence of farmers in Japan. To overcome this situation, the Law for the Conservation and Revitalisation of…
Mario E. TAPIA, Ana María FRIES and Jorge NOVO NEGRILLO
The city of Arequipa, Southern Perú is located at 2,700 m a.m.s.l. . in a semi desert zone, the Oceanic Yunga, as an extension of the Atacama Desert. This zone presents gorges and steep slopes which have been transformed in agricultural terraced systems since…
Sevina FLORIDOU
his paper examines a temporal terraced landscape area, in order to acknowledge its potential, and above all, its historical validity. For, when focusing on production generated on terraces, this in itself generates a particular kind of discourse prioritizing…
Lidia Esther ROMERO-MARTÍN, Néstor MARRERO-RODRÍGUEZ, Leví GARCÍA-ROMERO, Sara SANTANA-SANTANA, Emma PÉREZ-CHACÓN ESPINO and Elisabeth FERNÁNDEZ-CABRERA
Terraced cultural landscapes provide valuable information on the historical interaction between societies and the environment that can help to ensure their survival. The irruption of tourism and, more recently, globalization, have caused a process of…
