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The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthan—the Ambikā Temple in Jagat and the Śri Ékliṅgjī Temple Complex in Kailāshpurī—the author looks beyond their divergent sectarian affiliations and patronage structures to underscore many aspects of common practice. This book offers new and extremely valuable insights into these important monuments, illuminating the entangled politics of antiquity and revealing whether a monument’s ritual record is affirmed as continuous and hence hoary or dismissed as discontinuous or reinvented through various strategies. The Hegemony of Heritage enriches theoretical constructs with ethnographic description and asks us to reexamine notions such as archive and text through the filter of sculpture and mantra.

theory and praxis --- heritage studies --- history --- hindu and jain architecture --- indian temples and archaeological sites --- hindu temples --- archaeological monuments --- diachronic methods --- mewār rajasthan

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The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective of the dynamics that govern the human–climate ecosystem is becoming one of the main focuses of interest in biological and earth system sciences. Multidisciplinary bio-geo-archaeo investigations into the underlying processes of human impact on the landscape are crucial to envisage possible future scenarios of biosphere responses to global warming and biodiversity losses. This Special Issue seeks to engage an interdisciplinary dialog on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, focusing on long-term environmental data as an essential tool for better-informed landscape management decisions to achieve an equilibrium between conservation and sustainable resource exploitation.

vegetation cover --- urbanization --- climate change --- NDVI --- cities --- China --- Costa Rica --- mitigation --- carbon neutral --- political tradition --- environment --- army --- peace --- case study --- soil carbon --- grasslands --- livestock --- climate --- native forest --- land use --- land-use intensity --- spatio-temporal pattern --- land-use degree --- human activity intensity --- sustainability --- middle and lower reaches of Shule River Basin --- Horqin Sandy Land --- human-induced --- vegetation change --- RESTREND --- oasis --- landscape change --- agricultural oasis expansion --- Tarim Basin --- mid-mountains --- paleoecology --- Late Holocene --- central Spain --- dike-ponds --- land use changes --- DISP --- Landsat --- Shunde District --- historical land-cover/use change --- land reconstruction --- arable land --- farming radius --- eco-fragile area --- Northeast China --- flood management --- wetland --- land use change --- landscape transformation --- resilience --- late Holocene --- medieval age --- driving forces --- landscape change --- landscape dynamics --- forest landscape --- land use --- land cover --- landscape change index --- land politics --- forestland governance --- African politics --- development --- Côte d’Ivoire --- Deforestation --- pollen --- NPPs --- pasture indicators --- palaeoecology --- archaeological sites --- palaeoenvironmental reconstruction --- southern Italy --- Mediterranean --- n/a