European Wood-pastures in Transition (eBook, PDF)

A Social-ecological Approach
Redaktion: Hartel, Tibor; Plieninger, Tobias

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135139032
• Artikelnr.: 41295440

Autorenporträt

Tibor Hartel is Associate Professor in the Environmental Science Department at Sapientia University of Transylvania, Romania, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Conservation Biology: Europe Section. His research focuses on rural landscapes from Eastern Europe. He studies wood-pastures in Romania and has been involved in a number of management and educational activities targeting wood-pastures and old trees. Tobias Plieninger is Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is interested in the study of the driving forces, processes and patterns of changes in human-shaped landscapes. His research integrates natural and social science approaches to landscape ecology and conservation.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. The Social and Ecological Dimensions of Wood
pastures 2. Diversity, Threats and Conservation of European Wood
pastures 3. Wood
pastures as Examples of European High Nature Value Landscapes
Functions and Differentiations According to Farming Part 2: History and Change 4. The Origins and History of Medieval Wood
pastures 5. Recent Dynamics of Evergreen Oak Wood
pastures in South
Western Iberia 5.1 Wood
pasture Profile: Monroy, Spain 6. Ecological Patterns and Processes at Various Spatio
temporal Scales in Wood
pastures of the Swiss Jura Mountains and Adaptation to Climate Change 6.1. Wood
pasture Profile: Musella, Italy Part 3: Biodiversity and Ecology 7. Plant and Vegetation Diversity in European Wood
pastures 7.1 Wood
pasture Profile: Saaremaa, Estonia 8. Wood
pastures as Reservoirs for Invertebrates 8.1. Wood
pasture Profile: Hatfield Forest, England 9. Grazing as a Tool for Wood
pasture Restoration and Management 9.1 Wood
pasture Profile: East Vättern Scarp, Sweden Part 4: Socio
cultural Values 10. Social
cultural Values of Oak Wood
pastures and Transhumance in Greece 10.1 Wood
pasture Profile: Western Lesvos, Greece 11. The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Managing Wood
pastures 11.1 Wood
pasture Profile: Csokonyavisonta, Hungary 12. Mapping Ancient and other Trees of Special Interest: UK citizens' Contribution to World Tree Heritage Part 5: Governance Institutions 13. Wood
pasture Management in Southern Transylvania (Romania): from Communal to Where? 13.1 Wood
pasture Profile: Breite, Romania 14. Common Management of Wood
pastures and Sustainable Regional Development in the Southern Black Forest (Germany) 14.1 Wood
pasture Profile: Southern Black Forest, Germany 15. Institutional Arrangements of Wood
pasture Management: Past and Present (UK) Part 6: Synthesis 16. Wood
pastures and the Greening of the Common Agricultural Policy 17. European Wood
pastures in Transition: Lessons for Science, Conservation and Policy Development in High Nature Value Landscapes