Protecting the Identity of Sheep-Farming Landscapes in the Outer Carpathians: A Typology, Delimitation, and Interpretation

Janusz Lach is a PhD lecturer at the University of Wrocław, Faculty of Earth Science and Environmental Management Department of Regional Geography and Tourism. Educated as a geomorphologist and geographer of physical geography, he specializes in regional geography, cultural geography, tourist geography, and landscape studies. His address is: University of Wrocław, street Z. Cybulskiego 32, room 156, 50-205 Wrocław. His e-mail is:

Ihor Boyko is a PhD researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in the Department of Social Anthropology. He is educated as an ethnographer and specializes in the ethnography of the Eastern and Western Carpathians, with a focus on the following ethnic groups: the Hutsuls, Boykos, Lemkos, and Slovak and Polish highlanders originating from the Wallachian culture. His address is The National Academy, Svobody Avenue 15, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine. His e-mail is: