Perceiving and responding to gradual landscape change at the community level: Insights from a case study on agricultural abandonment in the Black Forest, Germany

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Bieling, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive comanagement; Agricultural abandonment; Communities; Forest transition; Landscape perception; Marginal areas; Response strategies

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; COMANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PERCEPTION;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY;

EID: 84881143375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05590-180236     Document Type: Article

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