Metoder för kulturmiljöanalys
Questions concerning the Cultural Heritage must be integrated in social planning.Therefore there is a need for adequate methods for cultural environmental analysis, toreceive knowledge that is relevant in an integrated conservation. The thesis is a review ofmethods for cultural environmental analysis and discusses the qualifications necessary fora method in order to receive adequate information as well as it discusses what kind ofinformation to be considered relevant. The thesis also analyzes a specific method forcultural environmental analysis in order to exam if it has got the qualifications concludedas necessary if it is to be used in an integrated conservation. The conclusion is that amethod for cultural environmental analysis should collect information about the entireenvironment (integrated information about nature and culture, in a historical perspectiveand how it is today), about social structures, physical remains (buildings etc) and what thecollected information tell about the history of the studied area, as well as what is importantin the landscape of today. Information about how the environment should be treated in thefuture is also of importance. To receive adequate information it is necessary that themethod can analyze the visual aspects of the contemporary landscape as well as theenvironment as a whole (nature and culture), that it can put focus on certain aspects ofthe 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 makepossible that the information collected is connected to possible changes in the future. Theconclusion about the specific method analyzed in the thesis is that it fulfills therequirements that are considered to be of importance in an integrated conservation.