"Instead of 40 Sheep there are 400": Traditional Grazing Practices and Landscape Change in Western Lesvos, Greece

Landscape Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 476-498

  Kizos, Thanasis ^a   Plieninger, Tobias ^b,c   Schaich, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

agroforestry; landscape change; Mediterranean; silvopastoral; traditional ecological knowledge; Western Lesvos

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GRAZING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NEOLITHIC; PASTORALISM; SURVIVAL; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE; LESBOS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORTHERN AEGEAN;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84888012761     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2013.783905     Document Type: Article

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