Explore how mobile pastoralism and land stewardship are key to preserving Mediterranean landscapes. These nature-based solutions merge tradition with modern sustainability, enhancing biodiversity, preventing wildfires, and supporting resilient ecosystems. Discover how initiatives like transhumance and the Land Stewardship Scheme are reviving traditional farming practices to combat climate change and protect the region’s natural heritage.
Leave a CommentTag: landscape ecology
The “Comunidad de sistemas agroforestales y cultivos mixtos” is a thematic social network created in 2023 to bring together the Iberian community of farmers, practitioners…
Leave a Comment
Written by Marco Mina
Although a variety of forest management approaches to cope with climate change have been proposed worldwide, what has been missing so far is a way to integrate them at appropriate scales, particularly at landscape level, and to put a primary focus on enhancing forest resilience in the Anthropocene.
I suppose that readers of the Resilience blog do not need a long introduction on the myriad of threats that the climatic and global changes pose to forest ecosystems. Mutating climate, drought, unexpected extreme disturbances, sudden shifts in socio-economic conditions but also forest fragmentation, pollution and new pest and diseases are making long-term forest planning more and more difficult. Scientists are still debating on the topic, but many are convinced that we entered in a new geological era: the Anthropocene. How can we therefore manage our forests so that they are more resilient to the high level of uncertainties that characterize this new era?
Leave a Comment