New Law for Old Trees in Romania: lessons and opportunities
Abstract Large Old Trees (LOT) are keystone ecological structures and have high cultural and economic importance. Still, LOT are only exceptionally targeted specifically by National Laws and are absent from powerful nature conservation policies (e.g., the Natura 2000 protected area policies of the European Union). Romania recently adopted a Law for its
Tibor Hartel +4 more
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Food tree species selection for nutrition‐sensitive forest landscape restoration in Burkina Faso
Modern food systems push agriculture to focus on a small number of commercial crops, while there is a very large diversity of untapped edible plants that could be used to address food security and nutrition. Poor and monotonous diets are closely linked to the complex burden of multiple forms of malnutrition and dietary risk.
Barbara Vinceti +14 more
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Beyond the senses: perception, the environment, and vision impairment
Abstract The ‘sensory turn’ in anthropology has generated a significant literature on sensory perception and experience. Whilst much of this literature is critical of the compartmentalization of particular ‘senses’, there has been limited exploration of how anthropologists might examine sensory perception beyond ‘the senses’.
Karis Jade Petty
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Une éthique du paysage est-elle souhaitable? [PDF]
International audienceDans le cadre d'un dossier "éthique et environnement", cet article s'interroge sur la place de la problématique du paysage dans la réflexion éthique et sur sa pertinence.
Sgard, Anne
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Nature as a constellation of activities: movement, rhythm and perception in an Italian national park
Drawing on the concept of taskscape, the paper explores activities of environmental interpretation in an Italian national park. Taskscape is the array of rhythmic movements, tasks and activities that humans and nonhumans perform in the process of dwelling.
Paolo Gruppuso
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Les photographies prises au sol : une source d’information pour la gestion des paysages riverains des cours d’eau [PDF]
Pour intégrer le paysage dans la gestion globale des cours d'eau, nous proposons une méthode permettant d'établir un diagnostic paysager, basée sur une analyse qualitative et quantitative de la structure éco-géographique du paysage et une analyse de sa ...
Cossin, Mélanie, Piégay, Hervé
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L'expérience esthétique de l'environnement : une tension sociopolitique entre l'ordinaire et l'extraordinaire ? [PDF]
Concernant la dimension esthétique des relations des hommes à leur environnement, deux lectures dominent la littérature scientifique : d'un côté, une esthétique qui serait l'apanage d'un regard distancié, associée à l'idée d' « extraordinaire » ; de l ...
Devanne, A. S., Le Floch, S.
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Les grands récits du paysage occidental. Une traversée historique et critique (xixe-xxie siècles) [PDF]
International audienceThe paper presents some of the results of research conducted in four European mountain regions (Sierra Nevada, the Central Pyrenees and the Alps - the upper valley of the River Piave and Valais -) on energy/landscape relations ...
Cosgrove, Harris, Luginbühl, Olwig
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L'observation environnementale au prisme du paysage. Dynamiques paysagères, actions territoriales et représentations socio-spatiales contemporaines dans le territoire de l'OHM Pyrénées-Haut Vicdessos [PDF]
International audienceSome people in charge of the OHM Pyrénées Haut Vicdessos underwent a methodological piece of research, whose aim was to turn the very landscape into a borderline tool between natural and social sciences.
Briffaud, Serge +4 more
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Editorial. Encrer les eaux courantes : la géographie prise au mot [PDF]
National audienceWithin the discursive and linguistic turn experienced by the social sciences, the analysis of texts and speeches contributes to explore the attitudes held towards the environment, including streams and rivers.
Le Lay, Yves-François
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