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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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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“Westmount’s Sinai”: Projecting a Jewish Landscape onto Montreal through Fiction
For Canadian Jewish authors, every peak and every valley, every lake and every island, every forest and every plain, is a potential locus for mythic energy.
Jesse Toufexis
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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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Le Wilderness, une manière de voir et d’être à la nature sauvage : le prisme paysager de Tremblant, Québec [PDF]
Le Wilderness désigne une relation particulière à la nature, caractérisée par des représentations et des pratiques paysagères qui lui sont propres. Aujourd’hui, il influence fortement l’environnementalisme et tend vers une valeur étalon pour les sociétés
Jacobs, Peter, Joliet, Fabienne
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ABSTRACT The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) can be hunted as a game species. It may also be listed as a “species likely to cause damage” (ESOD – the acronym in French), for public health reasons among others. Conversely, benefits linked to the presence of foxes are also put forward, such as the predation of rodents carrying zoonotic agents.
Emmanuelle Gilot‐Fromont +97 more
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Résumé Les géographes usent généralement de la notion de territorialisation pour évoquer ou réfléchir sur le processus par lequel l'être humain est en relation avec le monde et y fait sa place à partir du territoire qu'il crée ou recherche. Ils emploient les notions connexes de déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation pour évoquer ou réfléchir sur ...
Mario Bédard
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