A Study on the Cultural Landscape of the Traditional Village of Republic of Palau, Micronesia: A Case Study at Airai Village in Babeldaob Island

Iida, Akiko; Noguchi, Midori; Osawa, Satoshi; Ishikawa, Mikiko (2010). "A Study on the Cultural Landscape of the Traditional Village of Republic of Palau, Micronesia: A Case Study at Airai Village in Babeldaob Island". Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan. 45.3 (0): 97–102. doi:10.11361/journalcpij.45.3.97. ISSN 0916-0647.

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Abstract: This paper aims to clarify the cultural landscape of the traditional village of the Babeldaob Island in Micronesia. Airai village is chosen as a case site. The following three points were clarified. First, agroforestry such as Mekesokes, Telemetamel, Mesei, and Sers are the main elements of cultural landscape of the village, which co-exist with historical assets like the old stone-paved road and the traditional meetinghouse. Second, agroforestry landscape has been maintained through the cultivation activities of horticulture, agriculture and arboriculture, and people also utilize the natural resources of surrounding environments through plants collection, fishery and hunting. Third, cultural landscape of the villages is aggregation of minute landscape units classified by land use based on micro-geography and human's livelihood. It seems that to identify the landscape units are the fundamental way for cultural landscape management or environmental management.

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