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Farmers' attitudes and landscape change: evidence from the abandonment of terraced cultivations on Lesvos, Greece [PDF]
, 2009 Agricultural landscapes are the product of the interaction of the natural environment of an area and the practices of its farmers. In this paper, farmers' practices are examined in order to describe and understand processes of landscape change in ...
Theodora Petanidou +5 more
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Brazil's Cerrado valley wetlands—swamp savanna and gallery forest—are highly important for the biome's water cycle and carbon storage and are susceptible to degradation from the impacts of land use expansion and the climate crisis. In support of their detailed monitoring and assessment, we developed and tested a transferable mapping approach that ...
Felix Beer +6 more
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Ecological IndicatorsTo explore how traditional knowledge acts in the soil and water conservation in mountain agricultural systems, this study selects the Shexian Dryland Stone Terraced System (SDSTS) as the study area and employs the social-ecological system (SES) framework
Wenjun Jiao, Xiao Yang, Yuwei Li
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A reading model for Resilience in Terraced Wine Landscape
, 2018 The paper presents a part of a doctoral thesis that explores the theme of Agriculture Cultural Landscapes (ACL) through the interpretative key of resilience.
C. Dezio, D. Marino
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between sustainability transitions and local development through the case of Colombia's medicinal cannabis industry. It highlights how neglecting place‐specific needs and development expectations can hinder equitable transitions and reinforce existing socio‐economic disparities.
Diana Morales, Mónica Ramos‐Mejía
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Colorado's geologic, pedologic, topographic, hydrological, and climatic contrasts create strong but under‐synthesized opportunities for sustainable agritourism. This review investigates how geodiversity, and the broader environmental heterogeneity within which it operates, can be used to diversify farm income, strengthen place‐based visitor ...
Bonface O. Manono
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, 2018 This paper presents some methodological reflections that have been raised from a preliminary research on the vineyard hills of Soave, the first landscape listed in 2016 in the ltalian National Register of Rural Landscapes of Historical lnterest.
Geronta, Chrysafina +2 more
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Exploring the Sustainability Landscape of Nature‐Based Solutions in Food Systems
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) offer a pathway toward more resilient food systems. Although previous studies analysed various sustainability benefits of integrating NbS within food systems, the field remains fragmented, with a significant gap in understanding development patterns, emerging research trends at the intersection of NbS, food systems,
Elaheh Jalilzadehazhari
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Terraced landscapes: risk and liability
Journal of Agricultural EngineeringTerraced landscapes are preserved elements of the human-influenced environment, maintained by ongoing agricultural activities. Farmers are subject to the periodic collapse of terraces, which are repaired by means of traditional techniques. Unless it can
Gabriele Delogu +2 more
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Small, EarlyView.This Review presents a cross‐scale framework for single‐atom catalysts, spanning in‐plane and out‐of‐plane coordination; primary coordination, secondary‐sphere interactions, through‐space microenvironments and support interfaces; individual sites and macroscopic architectures; and static design and directed dynamic reconstruction.
Dazhi Yao +4 more
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