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Tradition and innovative in the protection of the natural environment of mountain regions [PDF]

open access: yesActa Scientiarum Polonorum. Formatio Circumiectus, 2023
Aim of the study: Pastoral management in Europe is an important element in protecting biodiversity and the landscape. Shepherding stimulates the development of the market of traditional and regional products, handicrafts and services.
Edyta Molik   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Affecting Farm Succession and Occupational Choices of Nominated Farm Successors in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

open access: yesAgriculture, 2021
Mountain farming communities in Pakistan are exhibiting an increased rate of rural-to-urban migration and a rapid growth in the non-farm sector, which has threatened the sustenance of agricultural activity.
Muhammad Abid Shahzad   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family Dairy Farms in the Northern French Alps: Persistence and Adaptation in a Changing World

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 2015
The maintenance of family farms in mountain areas constitutes a serious challenge in the context of globalization. European mountain agriculture faces significant natural constraints and cannot follow the same development path as agriculture in the ...
Sophie Madelrieux   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioclimatic drought trend study through the application of the ombroxeric index. A case study: the province of León (Spain)

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2022
The ombroxeric index (OXI), a drought-indicative bioclimatic index based on the Rivas-Martínez Worldwide Bioclimatic Classification System (WBCS), was used in this work to establish the ombroxericity trends in a defined study area: the province of Leon ...
G. B. Ferreiro-Lera   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

COLLAPSE OF THE TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL CIVILIZATION IN THE MOUNTAINOUS DAGESTAN AND POSSIBLE WAYS TO OVERCOME THE CRISIS

open access: yesЮг России: экология, развитие, 2015
The aim is to analyze the current state of mountain agriculture in a crisis of traditional agricultural civilization based on terraced agriculture.Results and discussion.
Z. M. Asadulaev, A. M. Musaev
doaj   +1 more source

Is Tourism the Beginning or the End? Livelihoods of Georgian Mountain People at Stake

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 2020
This study is an attempt to empirically understand the transformation of rooted livelihoods after the arrival of tourism in the Greater Caucasus. A case-specific methodology combining qualitative and geographic information methods enabled us to identify ...
Gvantsa Salukvadze, Norman Backhaus
doaj   +1 more source

Using the Ecosystem Services Concept to Assess Transformation of Agricultural Landscapes in the European Alps

open access: yesLand, 2021
Mountain farming sustains human well-being by providing various ecosystem services (ES). In the last decades, socio-economic developments have led to worldwide changes in land-use/cover (LULC), but the related effects on ES have not been fully explored ...
Uta Schirpke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Conception of Developmental Typology of Mountain Farms: A Case Study of the Municipality Ribnica na Pohorju

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2004
In this paper, a conception of developmental types of mountain farms in the municipality Ribnica na Pohorju is presented regarding the state of developmental potentials on farms.
Boštjan Kerbler
doaj   +1 more source

Climate resilience of farming systems in steep mountain terrain of selected regions in South Asia

open access: yesAPN Science Bulletin, 2021
This study assessed the climate resilience and characterized the existing farming systems in steep terrain in the hilly regions in South Asia.
Thusitha Bandara   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Des broussailles dans les prairies alpines

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2008
Landscape closing due to the decline in agricultural activity is considered to be a major problem in the Alps. Abondance Valley provides a good example of this phenomenon and is also representative of a paradox commonly found in the Northern French Alps:
Olivier Camacho   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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