Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège -  32 (1996/1) - Recherches en Géographie Humaine 

Quelques types de paysages agraires du Norrland supérieur suédois: répartition et évolution

Michel CABOURET

Abstract

The Swedish higher Noorland presents several traditional agrarian landscapes, among which the most important are : the landscapes of the coastal plains of the Gulf of Bothnia and the downstream valleys of the main rivers covered by wide and open cultivated lands with village seulement; the landscapes of the internai higher Noorland, lake and forest  milieu, withscattered seulement starting from the middle valleys, progressively from the east - south-east to the north - north-west, from the 16th until the first decades of the 20th century; these kinds of landscapes have been humanized by Swedish setiers; other cultivated lands have been occupied by Finnish people.

Index by keyword : higher Norrland, historical geography, Sweden, traditional agrarian landscapes

To cite this article

Michel CABOURET, «Quelques types de paysages agraires du Norrland supérieur suédois: répartition et évolution», Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège [En ligne], 32 (1996/1) - Recherches en Géographie Humaine, URL : https://popups.ulg.ac.be/0770-7576/index.php?id=3532.

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