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New Law for Old Trees in Romania: lessons and opportunities

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

Food tree species selection for nutrition‐sensitive forest landscape restoration in Burkina Faso

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 4, Issue 6, Page 667-684, November 2022., 2022
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

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 285-302, June 2021., 2021
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

open access: yesSocial Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 629-645, August 2020., 2020
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

open access: yesCanadian Jewish Studies, 2021
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]

open access: yes, 2012
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]

open access: yes, 2013
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]

open access: yes, 2009
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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Opinion and report of the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) on the assessment of the impact of fox population dynamics on public health

open access: yesFood Risk Assess Europe, Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

L'architectonique processuelle de la condition territoriale de l'être humain – Esquisse d'une conceptualisation des territorialisation, déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation

open access: yesCanadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 69, Issue 2, Summer / été 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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