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Title Social and ecological history of the Pyrenees : state, market, and landscape / Ismael Vaccaro and Oriol Beltran, editors.

Publication Info. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New frontiers in historical ecology
New frontiers in historical ecology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Human ecology -- Pyrenees -- History.
Human ecology.
Pyrenees.
History.
Social ecology -- Pyrenees -- History.
Social ecology.
Political ecology -- Pyrenees -- History.
Political ecology.
Pyrenees -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Pyrenees -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Pyrenees -- Environmental conditions.
Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Vaccaro, Ismael.
Beltran, Oriol.
Other Form: Print version: Social and ecological history of the Pyrenees. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010025901
ISBN 9781598746136 (electronic book)
1598746138 (electronic book)
9781598746129 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)