European Wood-pastures in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Wood-pastures in Transition write by Tibor Hartel. This book was released on 2014-06-27. European Wood-pastures in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wood-pastures are important elements of European cultural identity and have an exceptional ecological value, yet they are in decline all over Europe. The structure of wood-pastures is strongly influenced by grazing and multiple other land uses and by local and regional environmental conditions. This book examines the diverse expressions of wood-pastures across Europe. It provides a new perspective, using a social-ecological framework to explore social and ecological values, governing institutions, threats and conservation approaches. It explores the major drivers of decline, which are shown to be related to accelerated cultural, institutional and developmental changes occurring across Europe over the past century. Case studies are included from North-Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe. Written by renowned scholars and conservationists, the book contributes to developing better, locally adapted conservation policies and management approaches for wood-pastures.
European Wood-pastures in Transition
European Wood-pastures in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Wood-pastures in Transition write by Tibor Hartel. This book was released on 2014-06-27. European Wood-pastures in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wood-pastures are important elements of European cultural identity and have an exceptional ecological value, yet they are in decline all over Europe. The structure of wood-pastures is strongly influenced by grazing and multiple other land uses and by local and regional environmental conditions. This book examines the diverse expressions of wood-pastures across Europe. It provides a new perspective, using a social-ecological framework to explore social and ecological values, governing institutions, threats and conservation approaches. It explores the major drivers of decline, which are shown to be related to accelerated cultural, institutional and developmental changes occurring across Europe over the past century. Case studies are included from North-Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe. Written by renowned scholars and conservationists, the book contributes to developing better, locally adapted conservation policies and management approaches for wood-pastures.
No Country for Old Trees?
No Country for Old Trees? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Country for Old Trees? write by Marlene Roellig. This book was released on 2018. No Country for Old Trees? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Agroforestry in Europe
Agroforestry in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agroforestry in Europe write by Antonio Rigueiro-Rodríguez. This book was released on 2008-11-09. Agroforestry in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Agroforestry has come of age during the past three decades. The age-old practice of growing trees and crops and sometimes animals in interacting combinations – that has been ignored in the single-commodity-oriented agricultural and forestry development paradigms – has been brought into the realm of modern land-use. Today agroforestry is well on its way to becoming a specialized science at a level similar to those of crop science and forestry science. To most land-use experts, however, agroforestry has a tropical connotation. They consider agroforestry as something that can and can only be identified with the tropics. That is a wrong perception. While it is true that the tropics, compared to the temperate regions, have a wider array of agroforestry systems and hold greater promise for potential agroforestry interventions, it is also true that agroforestry has several opportunities in the temperate regions too. Indeed, the role of agroforestry is now recognized in Europe as exemplified by this book, North America, and elsewhere in the temperate zone. Current interest in ecosystem management in industrialized countries strongly suggests that there is a need to embrace and apply agroforestry principles to help mitigate the environmental problems caused or exacerbated by commercial agricultural and forestry production enterprises.
Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge
Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge write by John A. Parrotta. This book was released on 2011-10-14. Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status and trends in the development and application of traditional forest knowledge by local and indigenous communities worldwide. It considers the interplay between traditional beliefs and practices and formal forest science and interrogates the often uneasy relationship between these different knowledge systems. The contents also highlight efforts to conserve and promote traditional forest management practices that balance the environmental, economic and social objectives of forest management. It places these efforts in the context of recent trends towards the devolution of forest management authority in many parts of the world. The book includes regional chapters covering North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Australia-Pacific region. As well as relating the general factors mentioned above to these specific areas, these chapters cover issues of special regional significance, such as the importance of traditional knowledge and practices for food security, economic development and cultural identity. Other chapters examine topics ranging from key policy issues to the significant programs of regional and international organisations, and from research ethics and best practices for scientific study of traditional knowledge to the adaptation of traditional forest knowledge to climate change and globalisation.
