Social justice for traditional knowledge holders will help conserve Europe's nature

Z Molnár, Á Fernández-Llamazares, C Schunko… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiversity of European cultural landscapes is threatened by land abandonment and
intensification. While the conservation benefits of traditional management practices have …

[HTML][HTML] Agroforestry and the Climate Crisis: Prioritizing Biodiversity Restoration for Resilient and Productive Mediterranean Landscapes

R Tsiakiris, K Stara, Y Kazoglou, P Kakouros… - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study deals with the future of the traditional agroforestry systems (TAFSs) in the
northern Mediterranean Basin. Important productive systems, such as ancient non-irrigated …

Co-production of nature's contributions to people in dry rivers: a case study in Murcia, Spain

N Nicolás-Ruiz, C Quintas-Soriano… - Ecosystems and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Dry rivers are non-perennial rivers with no surface water in their channels except after heavy
rainfall or snowmelt. The lack of water flow is often associated with a low provision of …

[HTML][HTML] Drought threatens agroforestry landscapes and dryland livelihoods in a North African hotspot of environmental change

L Kmoch, A Bou-Lahriss, T Plieninger - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024 - Elsevier
Dryland agroforestry is often hailed as a nature-based solution for rural people's water-and
climate-related struggles, yet appraisals of traditional agroforestry practices and …

Mapping the evolving research landscape of sustainability science from 2006 to 2023: unveiling its transformation

M Sahle, SA Lahoti, SY Lee, C Kamiyama, X Tan… - Sustainability …, 2024 - Springer
Exploring the trends of sustainability science research is vital for advancing our
understanding of creating a more sustainable and resilient future for our planet and society …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring spiritual values in forest management practices in the Netherlands

C de Pater, B Verschuuren, S Greil, A Wals - Trees, Forests and People, 2024 - Elsevier
While forest-related spiritual values (forest spirituality) have long been incorporated in global
forest-related policies and strategies, the significance of spiritual values in forest …

Exploring spatial and temporal resilience in socio‐ecological systems: Evidence from sacred forests in Epirus, Greece

V Marini Govigli, JR Healey, JLG Wong… - People and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Socio‐ecological resilience is the capacity of a system to adapt to changing ecological and
social disturbances. Its assessment is extremely important to integrate long‐term …

Missing Landscapes: A Geohistory of Parkland Landscapes in Northwestern Morocco

A Ballouche - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
Northwestern Morocco is characterized by highly anthropized landscapes under the
combined effect of agricultural intensification, resource overexploitation, urbanization, and …

An Initial Assessment of Community Values, Rules, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Mount Hermon, Lebanon: Key Perspectives towards Biocultural …

S Baydoun, N Hani, HE Zein, R Zaidan, H Ghanem… - Human Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Mount Hermon, Lebanon, has a long history of human occupation reflected in the
landscape and ecology that makes biocultural perspectives highly relevant for the …

[HTML][HTML] Governing Landscape Simplification in Rapid Commercialization Contexts–the Case of the Dike-Pond System in the Pearl River Delta, China

W Chi, T Plieninger, G Lin… - International Journal of …, 2024 - thecommonsjournal.org
In the last decades, rapid agricultural commercialization has led to landscape simplification,
posing threats to the social and ecological values of agroecosystems worldwide. This paper …