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Title Social and ecological history of the Pyrenees : state, market, and landscape / Ismael Vaccaro and Oriol Beltran, editors
Published Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages)
Series New frontiers in historical ecology
New frontiers in historical ecology.
Contents 1. The presence of the past : a historical ecology of Basque commons and the French state / Seth Murray -- 2. Local places, global influences : pastoralism in Xiberoa and EU regulation / Meredith Welch-Devine -- 3. Some lessons from history : change and adaptation in the common forests of Navarre, 1900-1935 / Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi -- 4. Social and environmental conflicts in the planning and management of natural resources in the Aragon's Pyrenees : the case of the Los Valles occidentales / Xavier Carbonell -- 5. Highlands and Lowlands : political ecology and territorial conflict / Gaspar Mairal -- 6. Twenty-first century transhumants : social and economic change in the Alta Ribagorça / Ferran Estrada, Eli Nadal, and Juan Ramón Iglesias -- 7. Pastoralism and heritage in the central Pyrenees : symbolic values and social conflicts / Arnauld Chandivert -- 8. Shephers, hydroelectric stations, and ski resorts : the pallars Sobirà landscape / Oriol Beltran and Ismael Vaccaro -- 9. Rusticity, wild flora and fauna patterns, and identity in a valley of Cadí (Alt Urgell) / Joan Frigolé -- 10. Tobacco inthe Pyrenees? The ecological politics of tobacco in Andorra, a micro-state in a global market / Dolors Comas d'Argemir -- 11. Localism as nationalism in the Eastern Pyrenees / Eric P. Perramond -- 12. Management of environment and landscapes in mountain areas : social representations, actors, and institutions in a regional national park / Pierre Dérioz -- 13. Landscape management and evolution : the Montseny Natural Park / Xavier Roigé and Ferran Estrada
Summary This major work of historical ecology significantly advances the integration of research on natural and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary resource policy and management
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human ecology -- Pyrenees -- History
Social ecology -- Pyrenees -- History
Political ecology -- Pyrenees -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Ecology
Economic history
Human ecology
Political ecology
Social ecology
Social conditions
SUBJECT Pyrenees -- Social conditions
Pyrenees -- Economic conditions
Pyrenees -- Environmental conditions
Subject Pyrenees
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Vaccaro, Ismael
Beltran, Oriol
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