Heroic viticulture: Environmental and socioeconomic challenges of unique heritage landscapes.

Steep-slope agricultural landscapes cover a small fraction of global agricultural areas. Despite the limited coverage, they are relevant for high-quality food and wine production, history, and landscape value. On steep slopes, centuries of effort and tradition have created a unique cultural heritage to be preserved.

European agricultural terraces and lynchets: from archaeological theory to heritage management.

Terraces are highly productive, culturally distinctive socioecological systems. Although they form part of time/place-specific debates, terraces have been neglected - fields on slopes or landscape elements. We argue that this is due to mapping and dating problems, and lack of artefacts/ecofacts.