Contribution of historical geography to Cultural Landscape

对于2004年以来日本新设立的文化遗产类别--文化景观，地方政府的公务员们是如何看待学科与文化景观之间的关系的？地理学（尤其是历史地理学）能否对地方文化景观做出学术贡献？与地理学的研究成果相比，许多追求文化遗产的公务员显然无法理解景观或文化景观的概念。因此，历史地理学可以也应该向政府和社会提供有关景观的知识和分析技巧。

How do the public servants of local governments think the relationship between disciplines and the Cultural Landscape, which is new category of cultural properties in Japan since 2004? And can the geography (especially, historical geography) give academic contribution to local cultural landscapes? these are the questions and the purposes of this research.It became to be clear that many public servants pursuing cultural properties can not understand the idea of landscape or cultural landscape comparing with the fruits of the geographic researches. So, historical geography can and should present the knowledge and analysis skill about the landscape to the administration and society.