Rewilding and restoring cultural landscapes in Mediterranean mountains: Opportunities and challenges

Una revisión sobre las tierras abandonadas en España: de los paisajes locales a las estrategias globales de gestión

“…Otros científicos, por el contrario, se inclinan por una intervención moderada en el territorio, con el fin de crear un paisaje en mosaico, más parecido al paisaje tradicional o cultural, donde en el territorio se distribuían en alternancia bosques, matorrales y pastos. Se trata de restaurar ecosistemas y paisajes degradados con apoyo del desbroce de matorrales y la ganadería extensiva (Bauer et al, 2009;Regos et al, 2016;García-Ruiz et al, 2020), con el fin de impulsar el desarrollo local y mantener algunos de los muchos servicios ecosistémicos que aportaban los paisajes tradicionales (Kozak et al, 2017). La Figura 2 esquematiza los efectos de los paisajes dominantes en tierras abandonadas en los principales servicios ecosistémicos.…”

Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation

“…Often, using herbivores is more cost-effective to reduce fuel biomass than mechanical removal (Varela et al, 2018). Grazing also complements mechanical clearing of biomass or controlled burning (Lasanta et al, 2018;Mitsopoulos & Dimitrakopoulos, 2017;Valette et al, 1993), especially when the land has been partly abandoned (García-Ruiz et al, 2020). It can increase the efficiency of mechanical actions and decrease the frequency by which such interventions are necessary.…”

Information technology methods for locality preservation and inheritance of settlement cultural landscape

“…The influence, penetration and erosion of foreign cultures are important external factors faced by the inheritance of settlement cultural landscapes locality. 15 The identity and pride of residents’ sense of their own cultural values are the fundamental internal factors of the inheritance of settlement cultural landscapes’ locality. 16 Based on the help of popular network GIS and management information system, the value and characteristics of the cultural landscape heritage of the settlement can be effectively promoted, which has attracted widespread concerns from all sectors of the society.…”