Identifying European marginal areas in the context of local sheep and goat breeds conservation: A geographic information system approach

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 657-670

  Bertaglia, Marco ^a,e   Joost, Stéphane ^b,c,e   Roosen, Jutta ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Extensive husbandry; GIS; Indicators; Land use; Marginal areas; Rural development

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; GOAT; MARGINALIZATION; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL POLICY; SHEEP; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BOVIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34249676258     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Andre M.F. Depopulation, land-use change and transformation in the French Massif Central. Ambio 27 4 (1998) 351-353
2. Andreoli M., and Tellarini V. Marginality and development in Italy: a study review. Perceptions of marginality. In: Jussila H., Leimgruber W., and Majoral R. (Eds). Theoretical Issues and Regional Perceptions of Marginality in Geographical Space (1998), Ashgate, Aldershot 101-121
3. Baldock, D., Beaufoy, G., Brouwer, F., Godeschalk, F., 1996. Farming at the margins. Abandonment or redeployment of agricultural land in Europe. IEEP & LEI-DLO (Agricultural Economics Research Institute) Report, London and The Hague.
4. Bignal E.M. Using an ecological understanding of farmland to reconcile nature conservation requirements, EU agriculture policy and world trade agreements. Journal of Applied Ecology 35 6 (1998) 949-954
5. Bignal E.M., and McCracken D.I. Low-intensity farming systems in the conservation of the countryside. Journal of Applied Ecology 33 3 (1996) 413-424
6. Bignal E.M., and McCracken D.I. The nature conservation value of European traditional farming systems. Environmental Review/Dossiers de l'environnement 8 3 (2000) 149-171
7. Brand T.S. Grazing behaviour and diet selection by Dorper sheep. Small Ruminant Research 36 2 (2000) 147-158
8. Calvo-Iglesias M.S., Fra-Paleo U., Crecente-Maseda R., and Diaz-Varela R.A. Directions of change in land cover and landscape patterns from 1957 to 2000 in agricultural landscapes in NW Spain. Environmental Management 38 6 (2006) 921-933
9. Cannata, G., 1989. Per un'analisi territoriale dell'agricoltura italiana. In: Cannata, G. (Ed.), I Sistemi Territoriali Agricoli Italiani. Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 15-29.
10. Caraveli H. A comparative analysis on intensification and extensification in Mediterranean agriculture: dilemmas for LFAs policy. Journal of Rural Studies 16 2 (2000) 231-242
11. Climatic Research Unit of Norwich [CRU] (2003). Online database accessible at .
12. Dahms F., and McComb J. 'Counterurbanization', interaction and functional change in a rural amenity area - A Canadian example. Journal of Rural Studies 15 2 (1999) 129-146
13. Davies S., and Hall P. Fractal analysis of surface roughness by using spatial data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 61 1 (1999) 3-38
14. Dmitriez, N.G., Ernst, L.K., 1989. Animal Genetic Resources of the USSR. Animal Production and Health Paper Publications, FAO, Rome.
15. Eastman, J.R., 1997. Idrisi: A grid-based geographic analysis system. Clark University, Worchester, MA.
16. European Communities, 2003. European Regional Statistics. Reference Guide. Office for Official Pubblications of the European Communities, Luxembourg. [Online at ].
17. European Environment Agency, 2000. CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) of the Commission of the European Communities Directorate-General on Environment (DG XI), Land Use Land Cover Database.
18. European Parliament and the European Council, 2003. Regulation 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), Official Journal, L 154, 21/06/2003, 1-41.
19. FAO [Food and Agricultural Organisation], 1999. The global strategy for the management of farm animal genetic resources. FAO, Rome.
20. Goodchild M.F. Geographic information systems and spatial analysis in the social sciences. In: Aldenderfer M., and Maschner H.D.G. (Eds). Anthropology, Space and Geographic Information Systems (1996), Oxford University Press, New York
21. Gordon I.J., and Illius A.W. Incisor arcade structure and diet selection in ruminants. Functional Ecology 2 1 (1988) 15-22
22. Greene W.H. Models for Discrete Choice in Econometric Analysis. 5th ed. (2003), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ pp. 663-755 (Chapter 21)
23. Hadjigeorgiou I.E., Gordon I.J., and Milne J.A. Intake, digestion and selection of roughage with different staple lengths by sheep and goats. Small Ruminant Research 47 2 (2003) 117-132
24. Halfacree K.H. Talking about rurality: social representations of the rural as expressed by residents of six English parishes. Journal of Rural Studies 11 1 (1995) 1-20
25. Halfacree K.H. From dropping out to leading on? Examining the evolution of British counter-cultural back-to-the-land movements. Progress in Human Geography 30 3 (2006) 309-336
26. Hammond, K., Leitch, H., 1996. The FAO global programme for the management of farm animal genetic resources. In: Miller, R., Pursel, V., Norman, H. (Eds.), Beltsville Symposia in Agricultural Research. XX. Biotechnology's Role in the Genetic Improvement of Farm Animals. American Society of Animal Science, IL, USA, pp. 24-42.
27. ®, Version 14. Clark Labs, Clark University, MA, USA. .
28. Joost, S., ECONOGENE Consortium, 2005. Combining biotechnologies and GIScience for livestock genetic resources conservation. In: Proceedings of the 8th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Estoril (Portugal), 26-28/05/2005, pp. 231-240.
29. Jussila H., Majoral R., and Mutambirwa C.C. Marginality in Space - Past, Present and Future. Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Cultural, Social and Economic Parameters of Marginal and Critical Regions (1999), Ashgate, Aldershot
30. In: Leimgruber W., Majoral R., and Lee C.-W. (Eds). Policies and Strategies in Marginal Regions: Summary and Evaluations (2003), Ashgate, Aldershot
31. Loveland T.R., Reed B.C., Brown J.F., Ohlen D.O., Zhu J., Yang L., and Merchant J.W. Development of a Global Land Cover Characteristics Database and IGBP DISCover from 1-km AVHRR Data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21 6/7 (2000) 1303-1330
32. Lu C.D. Grazing behaviour and diet selection of goats. Small Ruminant Research 1 3 (1988) 205-216
33. MacDonald D., Crabtree J., Wiesinger G., Dax T., Stamou N., Fleury P., Gutierrez Lazpita J., and Gibon A. Agricultural abandonment in mountain areas of Europe: environmental consequences and policy response. Journal of Environmental Management 59 1 (2000) 47-69
34. ® System, Version 7. Manifold Net Ltd., Carson City, USA. .
35. McCracken D.I., and Bignal E.M. Applying the results of ecological studies to land-use policies and practices. Journal of Applied Ecology 35 6 (1998) 961-967
36. Meeus J.H.A., Wijermans M.P., and Vroom M.J. Agricultural landscapes in Europe and their transformation. Landscape and Urban Planning 18 3-4 (1990) 289-352
37. Mehretu A., Pigozzi B.Wm., and Sommers L.M. Concepts in social and spatial marginality. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography 82 2 (2000) 89-101
38. Mitchell C.J.A. Making sense of counterurbanization. Journal of Rural Studies 20 1 (2004) 15-34
39. Mottet A., Ladet S., Coque N., and Gibon A. Agricultural land-use change and its drivers in mountain landscapes: a case study in the Pyrenees. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 114 2-4 (2006) 296-310
40. Neofitidis, A., Tawfik, E.S., 2002. Goat Husbandry for Extensive Use. Paper presented at the "International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Deutscher Tropentag 2002, University of Kassel-Witzenhausen, Germany, 9-11 October 2002.
41. Rees, D., Muller, J.-P., 1990. Surface roughness estimation using fractal Variogram analysis. Paper presented at the 10th Annual International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IGARSS '90, Remote Sensing Science for the Nineties, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 20-24/05/1990, pp. 1951-1954.
42. Rege J.E.O., and Gibson J.P. Animal genetic resources and economic development: issues in relation to economic valuation. Ecological Economics 45 3 (2003) 319-330
43. Saraceno E. Recent trends in rural development and their conceptualisation. Journal of Rural Studies 10 4 (1994) 321-330
44. Taillefumier F., and Piegay H. Contemporary land use changes in prealpine Mediterranean mountains: a multivariate GIS-based approach applied to two municipalities in the Southern French Prealps. Catena 51 3-4 (2003) 267-296
45. van Dam F., Heins S., and Elbersen B.S. Lay discourses of the rural and stated and revealed preferences for rural living. Some evidence of the existence of a rural idyll in the Netherlands. Journal of Rural Studies 18 4 (2002) 461-476
46. Woodhouse S.P., Good J.E.G., Lovett A.A., Fuller R.J., and Dolman P.M. Effects of land-use and agricultural management on birds of marginal farmland: a case study in the Llŷn peninsula, Wales. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 107 4 (2005) 331-340
47. Wright, I.A., 1997. Identifying biological constraints acting on livestock systems in marginal areas. Paper presented at the International Conference Livestock systems in European rural development, Nafplio, Greece, 23-25/01/1997.