Essays about: "Pau Torrents"

Found 1 essay containing the words Pau Torrents.

  1. 1. Farmers' participation in conservation of rural landscapes : A case study of the Menorca Biosphere Reserve (Spain)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Pau Torrents; [2014]
    Keywords : adaptive co-management; biosphere reserve; social-ecological system; rural landscape; agricultural land abandonment; Menorca; Menorca Biosphere Reserve Agency; stakeholder; participation; cooperation; stewardship; farmer; landowner; trust.;

    Abstract : In an European context of agricultural land abandonment, the role of the farming community as landscape stewards is crucial for maintaining the rural landscape as well as the ecosystem services provided by this landscape. Such stewardship is studied here by assessing the participation of the farming community in the management of Menorca Biosphere Reserve, a small Mediterranean island with very well conserved and rich rural landscape which is not escaping this tendency of land abandonment. READ MORE