Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people

Plieninger, Tobías; Shamohamadi, Shahin; Garcia‐Martin, Maria; Quintas-Soriano, Cristina; Shakeri, Zahed; Valipour, Ahmad

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104706

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“…The extensive exploitation of natural resources has fallen into disuse in many Mediterranean areas and also in northwestern Morocco. As these systems are marginalized or obliterated, the vast emblematic landscapes they created are compromised [4,9,10,13,14,49]. The dehesa and the montado in Spain or in Portugal have been become biosphere reserves and thus have been recognized for their patrimony value [4,15,[52][53][54].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other more ordinary landscapes of trees outside of forests, landscapes which are less esthetically interesting or whose production is more marginal, are also threatened or have already disappeared [4,[12][13][14]17]. These landscapes represent, nonetheless, an intergenerational legacy where much is at stake, both ecologically and economically [55], but most especially, on a sociocultural and symbolic level [9,56]. On the other hand, the traditional agroforestry systems have received increasing attention in recent decades for their multifunctional role and as a sustainable development model in a world facing global changes [57].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The large typological variety of this vegetation also covers a great diversity of landscape-shaping processes. These landscapes, or more specifically Land 2024, 13, 649 2 of 18 treescapes, are generally considered to be the result of various forms of natural resource exploitation (food, fuel, fodder, fiber), known as extensive agrosystems or sylvo-pastoral or agroforest systems [4,[7][8][9]. They also produce environmental benefits on both local and regional scales.…”

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Missing Landscapes: A Geohistory of Parkland Landscapes in Northwestern Morocco

Ballouche

2024

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Northwestern Morocco is characterized by highly anthropized landscapes under the combined effect of agricultural intensification, resource overexploitation, urbanization, and tourism, but also local reforestation. Reconstructing the recent changes in vegetation in the region of the lower valley of the Loukkos river near Larache and their relationship to the settlement history are particularly helpful for understanding the processes at work within the landscape construction. The geohistorical approach combines paleoenvironmental, documentary, and historical data. The last few centuries have seen the emergence of wooded stands, in which cork oaks are a structural element. As forests were retreating, parklands intended for agriculture, agroforestry, and herding, like the Spanish dehesa and Portuguese montado, began to emerge. Nearly all of them have disappeared today, but we can identify their legacy and evaluate their cultural significance through comparing them with their counterparts in the Iberian Peninsula, but also in other areas of Morocco. Their deep historical roots give this landscape an evolving heritage character that is directly linked to the communities’ lifestyles, culture, and history.

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Section: Working Landscapesmentioning

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Missing Landscapes: A Geohistory of Parkland Landscapes in Northwestern Morocco

Ballouche

2024

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“…This result is well documented in the literature, along with the expansion and development of urban cities in terms of infrastructures, social amenities, and modern technological facilities such as roads, electrification in urban cities, schools, hospitals, and job opportunities. This also reduces rural people's interaction with their local environment (Mattalia et al, 2022;Plieninger et al, 2023).…”

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“Forest is integral to life”: people-forest relations in the lower river region, the Gambia

Darboe,

Manneh,

Stryamets

et al. 2023

Front. For. Glob. Change

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IntroductionForests play a crucial role in the lives of millions of people worldwide by providing material and non-material contributions. Despite forests’ paramount importance from ecological, economic, and cultural perspectives, the long-term relationship between forests and local communities living in their proximity is often an undervalued contribution to our understanding of local ecological knowledge systems and forest changes.MethodsWe studied the interrelationships between the Mandinka peoples and forests in an understudied area of West Africa, the Gambia’s Lower River Region (LRR). Through 35 semi-structured interviews, we documented the forests’ contributions to local Mandinka peoples and their perception of forest changes. We also used geographic information systems (GIS software) for remote sensing satellite imagery to establish a baseline for these complex connections and changes.ResultsThis research revealed the crucial importance of the forest’s contributions to Mandinka communities and specifically to their psychological well-being. In addition, the interviewees revealed how ongoing socio-economic changes are affecting the human-forest relationship and possibly eroding the local ethnoforestry knowledge in the LRR of the Gambia. The most common forest contributions are those that provide material goods, serving as the driving force in connecting people with the forest, while non-material contributions are eroding due to complex socio-economic changes. Major socio-economic changes are also believed to drive the shift from dense forest to mixed forest and grassland.DiscussionIn line with the state of the art, the knowledge and perception of changes documented in this article underline the quintessential need to include local communities’ views in shaping forest management, in order to better fine-tune the strategies to safeguard biocultural diversity across forest areas.

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“…Morcillo et al 2013;Plieninger et al 2023). Memo writing and team meetings documented insight associated with broader meaning, relationships, and themes emerging across codes(Birks et al 2008).…”

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Comparing Restoration and Open Space Stakeholder Perspectives in Novel Ecosystems

Cutts,

Dinan,

Randall

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Novel ecosystems are places where a return to a previously observed ecosystem state is unlikely. In arid grasslands, such transformations are caused by legacies of land overgrazing or changes in land connectivity. Transformed ecosystems persist due to uncertain climate futures or other anthropogenic effects. Although novel ecosystems often provide valuable services, public land managers have given relatively little attention to the idea that effective stewardship of novel ecosystems may require novel assemblages of people. To address this gap, we examine whether management partnerships that involve agricultural and wildlife interests in restoration are sufficiently attuned to stakeholders invested in retaining unbuilt environment– or open spaces. We use qualitative approaches to analyze perceptions of cultural ecosystem services (CES) in the southern New Mexico landscape. Next, we analyze responses to spatial interviewing exercises focused on relational values to the landscape to examine perceptions related to landscape-level ecosystem patterns. Results offer insight into why thinking about when ecosystem service bundling may lead to creative tension between Restoration Partners and Open Space Stakeholders. Primarily, Restoration Partners comment on the negative impact recreation can have on the land. Yet Open Space Stakeholders envision recreationalists as a key steward of the ecological trajectory of the landscape. Relational value mapping results reveal that the values expressed among Restoration Partners and Open Space Stakeholders are similar when thinking ecologically but hold incommensurate economic and cultural perceptions.

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Community, pastoralism, landscape: Eliciting values and human-nature connectedness of forest-related people

Cited by 7 publications

References 57 publications

Missing Landscapes: A Geohistory of Parkland Landscapes in Northwestern Morocco

Missing Landscapes: A Geohistory of Parkland Landscapes in Northwestern Morocco

“Forest is integral to life”: people-forest relations in the lower river region, the Gambia

Comparing Restoration and Open Space Stakeholder Perspectives in Novel Ecosystems

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