Livestock versus "wild beasts": Contradictions in the natural patrimonialization of the Pyrenees

Geographical Review

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 499-516

  Vaccaro, Ismael ^a   Beltran, Oriol ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation policies; Mountain geography; Natural patrimonialization; Political ecology; Pyrenees; Territorialization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOTOURISM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MOUNTAIN; RANCHING; REGENERATION; REINTRODUCTION; SANITATION; TERRITORIALITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WILD POPULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; CASTORIDAE; CERVIDAE; LUTRA CANADENSIS; MARMOTA; OVIS ARIES MUSIMON;

EID: 70350120435     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2009.tb00444.x     Document Type: Review

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