Biocultural Diversity in Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Biocultural Diversity and Landscape in Europe: Framing the Issue

   • Mauro Agnoletti, Francesca Emanueli

   Pages 1-18

3. Landscape Characters and Biocultural Diversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Traditional Mediterranean Polycultural Landscape as Cultural Heritage: Its Origin and Historical Importance, Its Agro-Silvo-Pastoral Complexity and the Necessity for Its Identification and Inventory

      • Giuseppe Barbera, Sebastiano Cullotta

      Pages 21-48

   3. Connections Between Natural and Cultural Diversities in the Landscape of the Małopolski Vistula Gorge and the Nałęczów Plateau (Eastern Poland)

      • Barbara Bożętka

      Pages 49-73

   4. Wooded Grasslands as Part of the European Agricultural Heritage

      • Csaba Centeri, Hans Renes, Michael Roth, Alexandra Kruse, Sebastian Eiter, Jutta Kapfer et al.

      Pages 75-103

   5. A Comparative Study of Two Mediterranean Transhumant Systems and the Biocultural Diversity Associated with Them

      • Pablo Domínguez

      Pages 105-122

   6. Apicultural Spaces as Biocultural Places: A Comparative Temporal and Spatial Examination of Beekeeping Practices and Their Contextual Landscapes in the Northwest Apennines

      • Robert Hearn, Rebekka Dossche

      Pages 123-139

   7. History and Traditional Management of Italian Wood Pastures

      • Francesca Emanueli, Mauro Agnoletti

      Pages 141-155

   8. The Making of Olive Landscapes in the South of Spain. A History of Continuous Expansion and Intensification

      • Juan Infante-Amate, Inmaculada Villa, Eduardo Aguilera, Eva Torremocha, Gloria Guzmán, Antonio Cid et al.

      Pages 157-179

   9. Historical Landscape of Lun Olive Trees at Pag Island, Croatia

      • Jadran Kale

      Pages 181-191

   10. Rewilding the French Pyrenean Landscape: Can Cultural and Biological Diversity Successfully Coexist?

       • Tony Knight

       Pages 193-209

   11. Traditional Agriculture as Cultural Heritage. Forgotten Agroforestry Practices Recorded in Textual Part of Nineteenth Century Tax Records

       • Jana Krčmářová, Martin Arnold

       Pages 211-231

   12. Plant Toponyms as a Tool in Investigating Possible Links Between Cultural and Biological Diversity. The Case of Tuscany

       • Maria Adele Signorini, Bruno Foggi, Laura Cassi, Luca Ongaro, Federica Frondizi

       Pages 233-247

   13. Traditional Agricultural Practices, Land Cover Diversity and Biodiversity in the Southern Podpolanie Region

       • Martina Slámová, Peter Jančura, Vladimíra Fabriciusová, Boris Beláček, Katarína Zrníková, Zlatica Prídavková

       Pages 249-268

   14. Ecological and Cultural Diversity of Traditional Mountain Agricultural Landscape: A Case Study from Slovakia

       • Jana Špulerová, Marta Dobrovodská, Stanislav Dávid, Ľuboš Halada, Peter Gajdoš

       Pages 269-281

   15. Religion and the Management of the Commons. The Sacred Forests of Epirus

       • Kalliopi Stara, Rigas Tsiakiris, Vasilis Nitsiakos, John M. Halley

       Pages 283-302

   16. Historical Development of Forest Patterns in Former Slash and Burn Sites in Southern Estonia

       • Pille Tomson, Robert Gerald Henry Bunce, Kalev Sepp

       Pages 303-318

4. Management and Conservation Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-319

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   2. The Garfagnana Model for Exploiting Agrarian and Cultural Biodiversity: The White Garfagnina Sheep Breed, a Case Study of Sustainable Local Development

      • Francesca Camilli, Sandro Pieroni

      Pages 321-338

The book collects a selection of the papers presented at the meeting held in the context of the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD). Recognizing the inextricable link between biological and cultural diversity, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) joined forces, and in 2010 launched the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD). The first meeting for the implementation of the JP-BiCuD was held in Florence (Italy) in April 2014 and produced the UNESCO-sCBD Florence Declaration, which highlights the concept of biocultural diversity. The European rural territory is predominantly a biocultural, multi-functional landscape, providing a crucial and effective space for integration of biological and cultural diversity, suggesting the need to revise some of the current strategies for the assessment and management of biodiversity.

• biocultural
• biological diversity
• cultural diversity
• global sustainability
• sustainability policies
• Forestry Management

• GESAAF, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

  Mauro Agnoletti

• GESAAF, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

  Francesca Emanueli

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