Elasa Slovenia - Cultural landscapes Cultural landscape Cultural landscape is a complex spatial phenomenon. Natural processes are primeval. For this reason man does not create landscape but just reforms it in a continuous struggle with natural processes . The man of today is exceedingly efficient in this struggle. However, this efficiency has imposed a great responsibility for the preservation of other landscape inhabitants.
Cultural landscape changes continuously .
It responds to the of settlement conditions as well as social and economic conditions in general, to the changes of cultivating procedures, tools, market conditions, behavioural practices, and in fact to everything pertaining to the man's living and working in a certain environment. In this case, the very changes in agricultural practices are the most far-reaching for the cultural landscape, either due to the modernising of farming procedures or due to the abandoning of land cultivation. The Slovenian landscapes display a great variety and abundance of landscape patterns . This is a result of diverse spatial, primarily physical, conditions as well as human interventions. The landscape image was influenced by the forms of colonisation, political and administrative orders in the past, as well as changes in living conditions, different periods of rural depopulation, and last but not least, particularly in the recent time, changes in settlement patterns, recreational facilities, building of holiday estates, and activities such as the construction of highways, building of water dams, contemporary improvements of farmland.