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In the context of water scarcity, soil erosion, and biodiversity decline, the Mediterranean basin urges to manage its nearly hundred coastal watersheds in a coordinated manner. To this end, we propose an integrated approach to model socio-ecolog[...]
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In Southern Europe, the abandonment of the traditional transhumant system where sheep graze lowland areas during winter and distant mountain systems during summer has led to an important cultural loss and still poorly understood ecological conse[...]
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L. Amara ; M. Oudada ; M. Elhassnaoui |Le recours au patrimoine local (tradition musicale, art culinaire, artisanat, agriculture, forme paysagère…) constitue l’une des innovations majeures en matière de promotion des territoires. Cette «démarche», qui ne peut être comprise indépendam[...]
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Ecosystems in rural areas play a crucial role in promoting human well-being and economic development by providing essential resources such as food, water, raw materials, and energy. Furthermore, rural ecosystems offer various services, such as r[...]
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In the last decades, scholars from different disciplines have used the foodscape as a concept and an analytical framework to explore the intersection between landscape, people and food culture. Adopting a comparative case-study analysis, this ar[...]
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In the international debate, the relationship between sustainable management in agriculture and the enhancement of landscapes is recent and is discussed in various international agendas. These objectives are connected to a growing demand for sus[...]
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Comprendre un paysage, c’est d’abord le contempler, laisser affleurer toutes les questions qu’il suscite… Pourquoi, au milieu de la lande ouverte, sur la colline d’en face, cette mosaïque de couleurs, avec ces jeunes prés clôturés, d’un vert cru[...]
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K.S. Zimmerer ; Y.J. Olivencia ; L.P. Rodríguez ; N. López-Estébanez ; F.A. Álvarez ; R.M. Olmo ; C.Y. Ochoa ; Á.R.R. Pulpón ; Ó.J. García |CONTEXT Accelerated intensification/disintensification and urbanization are changing agricultural systems and propel the need for spatial approaches to understand sustainability-enhancing resilience. Landscapes are key to this understanding thou[...]
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The GIAHS-FAO program enhances the agricultural systems coevolved with humans through their dynamic conservation to guarantee the livelihood of future generations. The aim of this research was to assess, with a dynamic perspective, the terraced [...]
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M.C. Iglesias ; V. Hermoso ; J.C. Campos ; C. Carvalho-Santos ; P.M. Fernandes ; T.R. Freitas ; J.P. Honrado ; J.A. Santos ; A. Sil ; A. Regos ; J.C. Azevedo |Integrated management of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) in heterogeneous landscapes requires considering the potential trade-offs between conflicting objectives. The UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve zoning scheme is a suitable context to add[...]
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The spatiotemporal changes of the grazed Greek landscapes in the last 75 years resemble those evidenced in most parts of the northern Mediterranean region, where woody vegetation encroached on open areas changing landscape structure and diversit[...]
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Agricultural modernization brought about a significant land use change, with the expansion both of crops that could be more easily mechanized and of woodland and natural areas. Meanwhile, to increase the cultivated area, the farmland fabric of p[...]
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L. Etienne ; P. Franck ; C. Lavigne ; J. Papaïx ; P. Tolle ; N. Ostandie ; A. Rusch |Reducing pesticide use in agricultural landscapes involves understanding the environmental drivers that affect pesticide application and its subsequent effect on pests. Landscape diversification has been found to benefit natural enemies of pests[...]
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Rurban landscapes describe the transition areas between urban and surrounding rural environments where city, agriculture, rurality and nature meet. There is a crucial need that urban-rural transition zones must be managed with proper planning in[...]
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Decision-making processes to ensure sustainability of complex agro-ecosystems must simultaneously accommodate production goals, environmental soundness, and social relevancy. This means that besides environmental indicators and human activities,[...]
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Urban Sprawl, and the fragmentation of the territory associated with it, are factors degrading the peri-urban areas in many European cities. The aim of this research is to investigate the role that Green Infrastructure (GI) and Nature-Based Solu[...]
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The sustainability of farming systems has been enhanced by legislation on different scales, but at the same time these policies also promote more productive systems through farming intensification (e.g., use of irrigation or high tree densities)[...]
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Global environmental changes, including landscape fragmentation, are threatening the integrity of ecosystems and reducing their capacity to deliver ecosystem services. Spatial configuration of a green network supports ecological functions and se[...]
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La province de Guelmim fait partie d’une région éco-géographique bien individualisée (appelée Bas-Draa), située sur les franges sud de l’Anti-Atlas Occidental et constitue une zone de transition entre le Maroc saharien et le Maroc non-saharien. [...]
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N.M. Georgiadis ; G. Dimitropoulos ; K. Avanidou ; P. Bebeli ; E. Bergmeier ; S. Dervisoglou ; T. Dimopoulos ; D. Grigoropoulou ; I. Hadjigeorgiou ; O. Kairis ; E. Kakalis ; K. Kosmas ; S. Meyer ; M. Panitsa ; D. Perdikis ; D. Sfakianou ; N. Tsiopelas ; T. Kizos |The management of agroecosystems affects biodiversity at all levels from genetic to food-web complexity. Low-input farming systems support higher levels of genetic, species and habitat diversity than high-input, industrial ones. In Greece, as in[...]
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The theoretical literature makes a connection between the notions of landscape and territorialised agrifood systems, but these connections are rarely specified or explained. Their consideration in development proposals requires the relationship [...]
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Farming faces new and urgent pressures, with an array of mounting social, environmental and economic challenges, and growing public and political expectations for improved stewardship of natural resources [...]
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J.-L. Chotte ; J. Albergel ; B. Bonnet ; A. Cornet ; T. Heulin ; P. Hiernaux ; A. Ickowicz ; M. Loireau ; M. Requier-Desjardins ; E. Scopel ; H. Soubelet ; B. Sultan ; M. Thibon ; Y. Travi ; L. Vidal | Montpellier [France] : CSFD. Comité Scientifique Français de la Désertification | Fiche d'actualité | 2022Le premier bilan d'étape de l'impact de l'initiative de la Grande Muraille Verte (GMV) au Sahel (septembre 2021) met en évidence l'urgence d'actions coordonnées, impliquant tous les acteurs, pour atteindre les ambitions annoncées en 2007. Aujour[...]
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Climate change threatens our food systems and the multiple development goals linked to sustainable food system transformation. Action is urgently needed, both to increase adaptation and resilience and to achieve major emissions reductions. Curre[...]
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La Méditerranée… le bleu profond des anses et le rose des toits, le sol sombre des pentes et du vignoble, le vert cendré des oliviers et la flèche sombre des cyprès, les pierres sèches et les fontaines… La Méditerranée, c’est aussi Alger la Blan[...]
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Agricultural land abandonment and its impacts on landscape features have been a striking characteristic of many European rural areas over the last decades. Although previous research identified drivers and environmental impacts of abandonment, f[...]
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J.-P. Metzger ; J. Villarreal-Rosas ; A.F. Suárez-Castro ; S. López-Cubillos ; A. González-Chaves ; R.K. Runting ; C. Hohlenwerger ; J.R. Rhodes |The provision of ecosystem services is inherently spatial. Landscape structure affects service provision through multiple landscape-level processes, such as fragmentation, edge and connectivity effects. These processes can affect areas of ecosys[...]
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Participatory spatial tools-community mapping, PGIS, and others-find increasing resonance among research and non-governmental organizations to make stakeholder claims and community perspectives explicit for more inclusive landscape governance. I[...]
