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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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Abstract Several species of Lepidoptera with caterpillars bearing urticating hairs are increasing their range in metropolitan France from year to year, such as the pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa Denis et Schiffermüller 1775) whose presence was historically limited to the south of France, and which is gradually being observed in the north ...
Nicolas Desneux +105 more
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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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Résumé L'étude de l'histoire contemporaine de la géographie au prisme de la sociologie des professions permet de s'intéresser aux « trajectoires professionnelles », et ce, à titre d'objets. Par l'analyse de documents d'archives, trois périodes ont pu être établies, montrant ainsi les particularités contextuelles des débats entourant la présence des ...
Raphaël Pelletier
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Résumé La publication de la Politique nationale de l'architecture et de l'aménagement du territoire du Québec (PNAAT) interpelle la géographie à plusieurs égards. Cette politique, qui résulte d'un processus d'élaboration de dix‐huit mois, est mise en récit autour du paradigme de l'aménagement durable, comme le veut la tendance générale aujourd'hui en ...
Martin Simard
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Résumé La pénurie de main‐d'œuvre au sein de la fonction publique dans les communautés autochtones du Nord pose un double problème, celui d'engager sur‐le‐champ des professionnel·le·s, souvent des allochtones en provenance du Sud, et de s'assurer que leur intégration outrepasse les fondements du racisme systémique.
Charlotte Bellehumeur, Laurie Guimond
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