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Linear landscape elements, such as field margins, are agricultural practices whose adoption is supported by agri-environmental climate measures (AECMs). AECMs are meant to improve ecological conditions on farms and surrounding areas. The effecti[...]Article
S. Chiappini ; E. Marcheggiani ; A. Galli ; A. Khosravi ; M.D.A.M. Choudhury ; M. Balestra ; D. Neri |This research examines the evolution of olive landscapes in Cartoceto, Italy, post-World War II. This study investigates the structural and functional attributes of two distinct olive cultivation models, mixed olive groves with a low tree densit[...]Article
H.J. Kim ; A. Lazurko ; G. Linney ; L. Maskell ; E. Díaz-General ; R.J. Brezovská ; H. Keune ; C. Laspidou ; H. Malinen ; S. Oinonen ; J. Raymond ; M. Rounsevell ; S. Vano ; M.D. Venâncio ; A. Viesca-Ramirez ; A. Wijesekera ; K. Wilson ; K. Ziliaskopoulos ; P.A. Harrison |Biodiversity underpins the functioning of ecosystems and the diverse benefits that nature provides to people, yet is being lost at an unprecedented rate. To halt or reverse biodiversity loss, it is critical to understand the complex interdepende[...]Article
Y. Chiffoleau ; T. Dourian ; G. Enderli ; D. Mattioni ; G. Akermann ; A. Loconto ; F. Galli ; G. Emese ; Z. Perényi ; L. Colombo ; S. Massari ; D. Desclaux |Agrobiodiversity is in rapid decline, due to the intensification of agriculture and the development of food value chains based on industrial processing techniques. However, consumers are not generally involved in developing solutions to reverse [...]Article
J. Zhao ; L. Yu ; T. Newbold ; X. Shen ; X. Liu ; F. Hua ; K. Kanniah ; K. Ma |Largely driven by agricultural pressures, biodiversity has experienced great changes globally. Exploring biodiversity responses to agricultural practices associated with agricultural intensification can benefit biodiversity conservation in agric[...]Article
L.M. Brander ; R. De Groot ; J.P. Schägner ; V. Guisado-Goñi ; V. van 't Hoff ; S. Solomonides ; A. McVittie ; F. Eppink ; M. Sposato ; L. Do ; A. Ghermandi ; M. Sinclair ; R. Thomas |This paper presents a global synthesis of economic values for ecosystem services provided by 15 terrestrial and marine biomes. Information from over 1,300 studies, yielding over 9,400 value estimates in monetary units, has been collected and org[...]Article
K. Kougioumoutzis ; M. Tsakiri ; I.P. Kokkoris ; P. Trigas ; G. Iatrou ; F.N. Lamari ; D. Tzanoudakis ; E. Koumoutsou ; P. Dimopoulos ; A. Strid ; M. Panitsa |Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) play a critical role in providing ecosystem services through their provision of herbal remedies, food and natural skin care products, their integration into local economies, and maintaining pollinators? diver[...]Article
Agricultural landscapes are linked to many functions that benefit human well-being, with a focus on food production. These functions are intrinsically linked with the management choices made by farmers, which are reflected in different farming s[...]Article
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The European Parliament has recently passed the Nature Recovery law to restore degraded ecosystems and prevent natural disasters as part of its Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and Green Deal. In this respect, wetlands can provide a wide range o[...]Ouvrage
M. Agnoletti, ed. ; S. Dobricic, ed. ; T. Matteini, ed. ; J.M. Palerm, ed. | Cham [Suisse] : Springer | Environmental History, ISSN 2211-9019 | 2024This edited volume reviews 20 years worth of research under the European Landscape Convention. The authors from the research network UNISCAPE offer readers insights into their combined efforts to carry out and support the goals of a sustainable[...]Article
The present study is inspired by a current scientific debate around the economic valuation of soil ecosystem services. It details the estimation of the services identified in the watershed O.Lachbal and develops projections in order to analyse t[...]Article
Agriculture plays a dual role in the conservation of European biodiversity, as extensive agricultural lands provide habitats for more than half of Europe's species, but intensification and abandonment of farmland threaten these species' habitats[...]Article
The present study aims to support the Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) implementation in Greece, by synthesizing an indicator that could be used for abiotic attribute assessments and specifically for geodiversity. S[...]Article
F. Jarray ; T. Hermassi ; M. Mechergui ; C. Zucca ; Q.B. Le |Understanding and long-term assessment of the efficacy of soil and water conservation (SWC) techniques is essential for sustainable watershed management. There have been few studies measuring the long-term impact of SWC on soil erosion at the ca[...]Article
Measuring agro-biodiversity through leverage factors: land use, farmer practices and public policies
Understanding the socio-economic channels through which farmers affect agro-biodiversity (ABD) represents a relevant research area, especially in the light of the new sustainable development paradigm. Supporting ABD is one of the main goals of t[...]Article
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[...]Article
M. Houssni ; J. Kassout ; M. El Mahroussi ; S. Chakkour ; M. Kadiri ; M. Ater ; A.-I. Petrisor |Oases play a crucial role in human societies and the conservation of biodiversity, especially in harsh environments like arid zones. They serve as sanctuaries for agrodiversity, preserving diverse agricultural resources under challenging climati[...]Article
A. Bernis-Fonteneau ; M. Aakairi ; O. Saadani-Hassani ; G. Castangia ; R. Ait Babahmad ; P. Colangelo ; U. D'Ambrosio ; D.I. Jarvis |Local agrobiodiversity in remote areas such as the Moroccan High Atlas is poorly studied, despite being of great importance for the sustainability and resilience of mountainous populations. This includes important species such as wheat (Triticum[...]Article
M. Helena Guimarães ; T. Pinto-Correia ; M. de Belém Costa Freitas ; I. Ferraz-de-Oliveira ; E. Sales-Baptista ; J.F.F. da Veiga ; J. Tiago Marques ; C. Pinto-Cruz ; C. Godinho ; A.D.F. Belo |The Montado is a silvopastoral system with a tree cover of predominantly Quercus suber but also Quercus rotundifolia, where cattle or sheep graze the understory. It occupies more than one million hectares in southern Portugal, and a similar land[...]Article
E.G. de la Riva ; W. Ulrich ; P. Batáry ; J. Baudry ; L. Beaumelle ; R. Bucher ; A. Cerevková ; M.R. Felipe-Lucia ; R. Gallé ; E. Kesse-Guyot ; E. Rembialkowska ; A. Rusch ; V. Seufert ; D. Stanley ; K. Birkhofer |CONTEXT Agricultural intensification contributes to global food security and well-being by supplying the food demand of a growing human population. However, ongoing land-use change and intensification seriously affect the abundance, diversity an[...]Article
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[...]Article
C. Bernard-Mongin ; X. Poux ; I. Herzon ; J. Moran ; T. Pinto-Correia ; D.E. Dumitras ; M. I. Ferraz-de-Oliveira ; F. Gouriveau ; D. Goussios ; M. Jitea ; Y. Kazakova ; R. Koivuranta ; F. Lerin ; M. Ljung ; A. Lomba ; V. Mihai ; M. Puig de Morales ; G. Vlahos |High Nature Value (HNV) farmlands currently retain most of the biodiversity associated with agricultural landscapes in Europe. In a time of globalized food systems, the social-ecological conditions to maintain these low-intensity and thus less p[...]Article
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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[...]Article
K. Mainali ; M. Evans ; D. Saavedra ; E. Mills ; B. Madsen ; S. Minnemeyer |Landscape scale wetland conservation requires accurate, up-to-date wetland maps. The most useful approaches to creating such maps are automated, spatially generalizable, temporally repeatable, and can be applied at large spatial scales. However,[...]Article
Dès lIndépendance (1956), la mobilisation des ressources productives (terre, eau) et lamélioration de leur niveau dutilisation ont été les principaux instruments de la politique agricole en Tunisie. Pour mettre en uvre ses choix et atteindre[...]Article
B.N. Elmiger ; R. Finger ; J. Ghazoul ; S. Schaub |CONTEXT Many agricultural policies target the conservation of biodiversity worldwide. Result-based agri-environmental schemes can be more effective and efficient than the more commonly used action-based schemes. The efficiency of result-based sc[...]Ouvrage
Au cours de quatre décennies de recherche scientifique, João Pedro Galhano Alves a vécu dans quelques-unes des rares régions de la planète où des sociétés humaines coexistent encore avec des écosystèmes en état de biodiversité totale ou élevée. [...]Ouvrage
Comprendre un paysage, cest dabord le contempler, laisser affleurer toutes les questions quil suscite Pourquoi, au milieu de la lande ouverte, sur la colline den face, cette mosaïque de couleurs, avec ces jeunes prés clôturés, dun vert cru[...]Communication à un Congrès (avec Actes)
Ecosystem services are integral to environmental preservation and the promotion of sustainable development. These services rely heavily on the perceptions of local residents to enhance ecosystem functionality. Our research is dedicated to explor[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Z. Basaran | 2023Pollination and pest control services, among the concepts of ecosystem services, are of great importance for sustainable agriculture and food security worldwide. This study highlights pollination services and their relationship with pest control[...]Thèse, Mémoire, Master
Lobjectif de ce travail est la conception dun modèle doutil dévaluation de la soutenabilité de la filière parfum en particulier la notation des ingrédients naturels. Pour répondre à notre problématique de savoir quel est le niveau de pertine[...]Article
I. Grammatikopoulou ; T. Badura ; R.J. Johnston ; D.N. Barton ; S. Ferrini ; M. Schaafsma ; A. La Notte |Ecosystem accounting is a statistical framework that aims to track the state of ecosystems and ecosystem services, with periodic updates. This framework follows the statistical standard of the System of Environmental Economic Accounting Ecosyste[...]Article
H. Choukrani ; M. Kuper ; A. Hammani ; G. Lacombe ; A. Taky |Immergés en hiver, les marais saisonniers (merjas) de la plaine du Gharb au Maroc étaient traditionnellement exploités pour le pâturage en été, à côté dautres usages productifs. Pourtant, ils étaient considérés par ladministration coloniale co[...]Article
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[...]Article
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 [...]Article
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[...]Article
J.M. Mancilla-Leyton ; D. Gribis ; C. Pozo-Campos ; E. Morales-Jerrett ; Y. Mena ; J. Cambrollé ; Á.M. Vicente |The ecosystem services provided by the age-old activity of husbandry are presently declining or seriously endangered. The situation is particularly serious for regulation services and for certain cultural services given their growing dependence [...]Article
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[...]Article
M. Ruberto ; G. Branca ; S. Troiano ; R. Zucaro |The Water Framework Directive (WFD) has introduced economic principles for water resource management, including the environmental cost recovery on the basis of the polluter pays principle (PPP). Agriculture, as a potential driver of pressures on[...]Article
E. Basak ; N.I. Cetin ; C. Vatandaslar ; P. Pamukcu-Albers ; A.A. Karabulut ; S.D. Çaglayan ; T. Besen ; G. Erpul ; Ö. Balkiz ; B.A. Çokçaliskan ; E. Per ; G. Atkin |The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) has gained global importance since the 1990s. Today its link to sustainable development and human welfare is well documented. However, the level of know-how and the scale and effectiveness of practices di[...]Article
C. Vidaller ; C. Malik ; T. Dutoit |Grazing is well-known to shape plant populations and plant communities and to affect several compartment characteristics of grazed ecosystems. Semi-natural grassland conservation depends on the maintenance of traditional extensive grazing system[...]Article
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[...]Article
C. Castellano ; D. Bruno ; F.A. Comin ; J.M. Rey Benayas ; A. Masip ; J.J. Jiménez |Riparian forests nestled in agricultural landscapes represent a small proportion in crop-intensive areas, while contributing remarkably to their biodiversity. This biodiversity supports several ecological processes crucially involved in the supp[...]Article
Protected areas offer unique opportunities for recreation, but the non-market nature of these benefits presents a significant challenge when trying to represent value in the decision-making processes. The most common techniques to value recreati[...]Article
Ecosystem services (ES) clarifies nature's contribution to human in an intuitive way, and aims at fully recognizing the importance of nature in the decision-making of social-ecological system management. However, in order to improve the ability [...]Article
We used Cyprus as a model to link the WaterEnergyFoodClimate (WEFC) nexus indicators (e.g., carbon and water footprints) to the ecosystem services (ES) provided by 39 mixed orchards (stone fruits and nuts) on organic (Org) and conventional (C[...]Article
D. Marino ; M. Palmieri ; A. Marucci ; S. Pili |Landscape composition has a crucial role in determining ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Human activities (e.g. urban expansion or agricultural intensification) have strongly modified the natural environment and ecosystem integrity. T[...]Article
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,[...]Article
Coastal wetlands are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems worldwide, although one of the main factors affecting their survival is the coexistence between agriculture and conservation. This paper analyses the complex balance between [...]Article
Global scenario-based modelling efforts to support biodiversity policies typically consider agriculture only as a pressure factor. Current scenarios typically include the expansion of protected areas combined with higher agricultural productivit[...]Article
Spain is the country with the most biosphere reserves (BRs) in the world. The aim of this paper is to investigate why BRs have come to proliferate to such a degree in Spain and why there is a gap between UNESCOs framework and the practicalities[...]Article
J. Wang ; M. Bretz ; M.A.A. Dewan ; M.A. Delavar |Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) are of importance in natural resource management, environmental modelling and assessment, and agricultural production management. However, LULCC detection and modelling is a complex, data-driven process in [...]Article
A. Pollo ; I. Piccini ; J. Chiara ; E. Porro ; D. Chiantore ; F. Gili ; R. Alba ; A. Barbi ; G. Bogliani ; M. Bagliani ; A. Doretto ; C. Ruffino ; E. Malenotti ; A. Garazzino ; R. Pelosini ; C. Siniscalco ; S. Bonelli |Since climate change impacts are already occurring, urgent adaptive actions are necessary to avoid the worst damages. Regional authorities play an important role in adaptation, but they have few binding guidelines to carry out strategies and pla[...]Article
A. Scuderi ; L. Sturiale ; G. Timpanaro ; A. Matarazzo ; S. Zingale ; P. Guarnaccia |For several decades, studies and conventions have highlighted the importance of the ecosystem services provided by natural resources and biodiversity for humanity and the need to move their management towards a sustainable model. Inthe United Na[...]Article
Most grazing lands in Mediterranean ecosystems that support extensive sheep farming systems are characterized by unfavorable edapho-climatic conditions, especially in semi-arid areas. Often, though, their use is far from sustainable, causing ero[...]Article
L. Battisti ; F. Larcher ; S. Grella ; N. Di Bartolo ; M. Devecchi |The Natura 2000 network is an ecological network covering the whole territory of the European Union to ensure the long-term maintenance of threatened or rare natural habitats and species of flora and fauna, including in metropolitan and rural ar[...]Article
Y. Amrouni ; M. Berrayah ; P. Gelabert ; C. Vega-Garcia ; B. Hellal ; M. Rodrigues |The transition zone between the Tellian and Saharan Atlas of the Tiaret region in Algeria is believed to be undergoing land degradation processes because of the increase in population needs, which causes a weakening of the biological potential a[...]Article
R. De Groot ; S. Moolenaar ; J. de Vente ; V. De Leijster ; M.E. Ramos ; A. Belen Robles ; Y. Schoonhoven ; P. Verweij |To prevent landscape degradation and the continuing loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, decisions regarding landscape restoration should be based on their true costs and benefits (i.e. broader welfare effects), including all externali[...]E-Book
J.-P. Profizi, ed. ; S. Ardila-Chauvet, ed. ; C. Billot, ed. ; P. Couteron, ed. ; M. Delmas, ed. ; T.M.H. Diep, ed. ; P. Grandcolas, ed. ; K. Kokou, ed. ; S. Muller, ed. ; A.S. Rana, ed. ; H.L.T. Ranarijaona, ed. ; B. Sonke, ed. | Marseille [France] : IRD Editions | Synthèses | 2022Dans un monde confronté aux changements climatiques et à des pandémies en lien avec la destruction des milieux naturels, les enjeux liés à la préservation de la biodiversité sont dorénavant bien connus et ont donné lieu à des accords internation[...]E-Book
S. Aubert, coord. ; A. Botta, coord. | Versailles [France] : Editions Quae | Nature et Société | 2022Les crises que nous traversons interrogent les modèles de société qui fondent nos priorités et nos actions. Comment retrouver une capacité à agir pour un idéal de justice sociale et écologique ? Comment remobiliser nos sens et habiter en conscie[...]Actes de Congrès ou Communication isolée
M. Requier-Desjardins ; L. Chazée ; W. Khechimi ; S. Anougmar ; M. Garrabé | 2022Article
This paper aims to map the ecosystem services (ES) provided by a reputed agropastoral ecosystem in the south of Albania and ascertain whether social capital affects the level of importance attributed to them. A perception analysis of both buyers[...]Article
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B. Czúcz ; H. Keith ; J. Maes ; A. Driver ; B. Jackson ; E. Nicholson ; M. Kiss ; C. Obst |The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) aims at regular and standardised stocktaking of the extent of ecosystems, their condition, and the services they provide to society. Recording the condition of eco[...]Article
European traditional cultural landscapes are increasingly modified by rural abandonment and urban growth processes. Acknowledged as of High Nature Value for providing multiple ecosystem services while contributing to human well-being, the future[...]Article
A.S. Vaz ; F. Amorim ; P. Pereira ; S. Antunes ; H. Rebelo ; N.G. Oliveira |Securing biodiversity values alongside ecosystem services and other socio-economic assets, is a priority in the European policy and territorial planning. Here, we design a landscape planning approach that identifies priority conservation areas a[...]Article
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[...]Article
The Adriatic coast of Northeast Italy is one of the representative areas holding high ecological value in the Mediterranean. In this research, we have monitored the environmental change of coastal wetland in ten studied sites that covered all th[...]Article
Municipal effluents running off into natural wetlands pose significant challenges to the latter's sustainability while also threatening the livelihoods of dependent communities. In this study, the potential for promoting constructed wetlands on [...]Article
Cette recherche cible lélaboration dun indicateur multicritère des services écosystémiques culturels (SEC) des zones humides méditerranéennes protégées. Basé sur les perceptions sociales des visiteurs, il vise la mesure de limpact de la visit[...]Article
The preservation of High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) is essential for meeting many of the new European Union (EU) Green Deal targets, as they correspond to production systems which respect the preservation of natural resources and support multi[...]Article
C. Esgalhado ; M.H. Guimaraes ; S. Lardon ; M. Debolini ; M.V. Balzan ; S.C. Gennai-Schott ; M. Simon Rojo ; I. Mekki ; S. Bouchemal |The influence of human use and management of natural resources has grown to the point that it becomes difficult to separate socio-economic from environmental components in land systems (Turner, Lambin, & Reenberg, 2007). Sustainability in these [...]Article
F.S. Campos ; J. David ; R. Lourenço-de-Moraes ; P. Rodrigues ; B. Silva ; C. Vieira da Silva ; P. Cabral |The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) defines the nature benefits in an anthropocentric way for sustainable development goals. However, a conservation dilemma arises from the question of how much the ES cost and which ES should be prioritized i[...]Article
There is a growing need for innovative new instruments to complement the current schemes aimed at improving farmland biodiversity. Some of the most promising innovations include market-based instruments relying on what is known as the commodific[...]Article
Effective agri-environmental management of peatlands requires co-ordinated implementation action beyond that on a farm level due to the ecological functioning of the water system at the watershed level. We assess how farmers perceive different c[...]Article
European rural landscapes contain high nature value farmlands that, in addition to being the main economic activity in many rural areas, host habitats and species of great conservation value. The maintenance of these farming systems largely depe[...]Article
C.J. Brown ; M.F. Adame ; C.A. Buelow ; M.A. Frassl ; S.Y. Lee ; B. Mackey ; E.C. McClure ; R.M. Pearson ; A. Rajkaran ; T.S. Rayner ; M. Sievers ; C.A. Saint Ange ; A.I. Sousa ; V.J.D. Tulloch ; M.P. Turschwell ; R.M. Connolly |Vegetated coastal wetlands, including seagrass, saltmarsh and mangroves, are threatened globally, yet the need to avert these losses is poorly recognized in international policy, such as in the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United N[...]Article
La formulation des risques associés à lérosion de la biodiversité prend de lampleur dans les champs politique et scientifique. Plusieurs évènements nationaux et internationaux en 2020 et 2021 mettent en exergue limportance de cet [...]Article
United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the European Green Deal and the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are legislative proposals counting on rural and agricultural landscapes to assist climate change mitigation, ecosystem servi[...]Article
The peri-urban areas of European metropolises offer a diversity of vegetated spaces forests, agricultural land, abandoned or preserved natural areas that receive ecological attention from city dwellers. This attention varies locally dependin[...]Article
D. Walters ; D.C. Kotze ; A. Rebelo ; L. Pretorius ; N. Job ; J.V. Lagesse ; E. Riddell ; C. Cowden |Wetlands differ in their ability to provide ecosystem services, and thus there is a need to assess ecosystem service delivery in order to prioritize protection and restoration efforts. We used a Delphi-based expert-panel method to validate an ec[...]Article
Futuribles poursuit ici la série consacrée à locéan, à la mer, aux littoraux , lancée en juillet-août 2020, avec un article de Sylvain Pioch consacré à lartificialisation du littoral, en France, et aux moyens de lenrayer. Rappelant tout dabo[...]Article
A. de Ravignan ; L. Hutinet ; C. Vallet ; M. Jublin ; N. Nahapétian ; V. Grimault ; L. Clerc, illus. |Elles sont parfois microscopiques, parfois énormes. Elles portent des noms latins compliqués et se comptent en millions. Pour linstant, en tout cas. Car aujourdhui des espèces, animales ou végétales, disparaissent à une allure inédite sous la[...]Article
A.A. Mana ; A.A. Mana ; A. Allouhi ; K. Ouazzani ; A. Jamil |All over the world, agriculture is both the food provider and an energy-intensive consumer, basically in developing countries. Thus, energy inputs into agriculture are often from fossil origin. Nevertheless, rural development cannot be done with[...]Article
Agriculture terraces constitute a significant element of the Mediterranean landscape, enabling crop production on steep slopes while protecting land from desertification. Despite their ecological and historical value, terrace cultivation is thre[...]Article
La mer Méditerranée réunit de forts enjeux économiques (transports mondiaux, tourisme, pêche), sociaux (immigration) et environnementaux (hotspot de biodiversité, et zone fortement impactée par le changement climatique). Cette petite mer semi-fe[...]Article
Le cas dérosion côtière traité par cet article se manifeste sur les plages du Parc national de larchipel de la Maddalena, en Sardaigne, au cur dune zone touristique de renommée internationale. Ce terrain de recherche a permis danalyser les [...]Article
A la veille des chantiers engagés au Maroc, le tourisme est considéré comme machine motrice du développement économique et mis en relief avec une certaine solennité bien méritée. Aujourdhui, les stratégies de management touristique se sont fixé[...]Article
Coupled humanenvironment systems and traditional agricultural landscapes can be a key element in the conservation of biodiversity, ecological functionality, and cultural heritage. Terraced landscapes are a relevant example of traditional landsc[...]Article
Terraced landscapes were for centuries forms of sustainable and multifunctional land management, results of a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their environment. They demonstrated a rich cultural diversity and agrobiodiversity [...]Article
This work proposes a holistic landscape assessment methodology, with novel and practical tools, which can support sustainable landscape development for small islands. The Greek island of Gavdos is the case study. An Islandscape character assessm[...]Article
G. Letournel ; C. Pages ; L. Seguin ; C. Chaumont ; J. Tournebize |Concilier les enjeux eau et biodiversité dans les régions agricoles est un enjeu majeur pour les acteurs des territoires. À partir d'une expérience menée en Brie Nangissienne, où des zones tampons humides artificielles ont été créées pour favor[...]Article
Agroecosystems are the largest human-natural coupled production system covering ~40% of the planet earth and provide essential ecosystem services for a good quality of life and human wellbeing. The sustainable management of agroecosystems are th[...]Article
Since two decades, urban agriculture has been booming and a wide range of forms, from urban allotment gardens to rooftop farming under greenhouse, is developing. Various benefits are recognized for urban agriculture integration within the city a[...]Article
According to previous research, in several countries, the achievement of the objectives for tourism development and the better functioning of protected areas is affected by bad governance activities. This paper provides a framework based on the [...]Article
Increasing anthropogenic pressures such as pollution, climate change or invasive species can have multiple impacts on ecosystems and the services (ES) they provide. To address the potential effects on ES provision, we propose a geospatial framew[...]Article
A. Malago ; S. Comero ; F. Bouraoui ; C.M. Kazezyilmaz-Alhan ; B.M. Gawlik ; P. Easton ; C. Laspidou |Understanding the complex relationships amongst Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems (WEFE nexus) together with the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is critical for the development of a sustainable and secure future in the Medit[...]