TY - BOOK AU - Le Floch,Sophie AU - Devanne,Anne-Sophie AU - Deffontaines,Jean-Pierre TI - “Closing the Landscape”: Beyond the Phenomenon, a Brief History of the Social Construct PY - 2005///. N1 - 27 N2 - The expression closed landscape refers both to a physical phenomenon (the spatial extension of forest) and the way it is perceived by users of the spaces concerned (feeling of oppression, etc.). It is also the product of a social construct. This construct emerged with concerns over the environment in the 1970s and reached its height in the 1980s during a conflict where the meanings of the changes affecting rural spaces were renegotiated. It then became a standard for the evaluation and evolution of these spaces, leading to a regional development paradigm of openness. This paradigm is theoretically complementary, not antagonistic, to that of promotion the reintroduction of trees into farming systems UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-espace-geographique-2005-1-page-49?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -