Anthropogenous landscape

landscape the characteristic features of which are conditioned by human activity. According to the relations between targeted and unpremeditated changes, there can be distinguished premeditatedly changed landscapes and unpremeditatedly changed landscapes (the latest sometimes are called “anthropic”). There also can be distinguished a culttural landscape (premeditatedly changed by human economic activity conducted in accordance with his needs and permanently maintained in necessary conditions) and non-cultivated landscape emerged in result of irrational activity or unfavorable impact of the neighboring landscapes (the lowest in this raw is a degraded landscape).