This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of research on environmental and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary natural resource policy and management. A diverse, international region, the Pyrenees has been characterized as a quintessential example of rural areas across Europe and North America. The authors use qualitative and quantitative methods from economics, history, anthropology, and ecological science to integrate human agency and ecology across a landscape that moved from agricultural and pastoral production to industrialization, then experienced acute depopulation, and now is becoming a focus of conservation and tourism. The book shows how today’s most pressing resource policy challenges are best illuminated by this broad, long-term understanding of humans and landscapes.
Edited by:
Ismael Vaccaro,
Oriol Beltran
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781598746129
ISBN 10: 159874612X
Series: New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
Pages: 271
Publication Date: 15 November 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1, Ismael Vaccaro, Oriol Beltran; Chapter 1a, Seth Murray; Chapter 2 Local Places, Global Influences: Pastoralism in Xiberoa and EU Regulation, Meredith Welch-Devine; Chapter 3 Some Lessons from History: Change and Adaptation in the Common Forests of Navarre, 1900–1935, Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi; Chapter 4 Social and Environmental Conflicts in the Planning and Management of Natural Resources in the Aragon's Pyrenees: The Case of Los Valles Occidentales, Xavier Carbonell; Chapter 5 Highlands and Lowlands: Political Ecology and Territorial Conflict, Gaspar Mairal; Chapter 6 Twenty-First Century Transhumants: Social and Economic Change in the Alta Ribagorça, Ferran Estrada, Eli Nadal, Juan Ramón Iglesias; Chapter 7 Pastoralism and Heritage in the Central Pyrenees: Symbolic Values and Social Conflicts, Arnauld Chandivert; Chapter 8 Shepherds, Hydroelectric Stations, and Ski Resorts: The Pallars Sobirà Landscape, Oriol Beltran, Ismael Vaccaro; Chapter 9, Joan Frigolé; Chapter 10, Dolors Comas d'Argemir; Chapter 11, Eric P. Perramond; Chapter 12 Management of Environment and Landscapes in Mountain Areas: Social Representations, Actors, and Institutions in a Regional Natural Park, Pierre Dérioz; Chapter 13, Xavier Roigé, Ferran Estrada;
Edited by Vaccaro, Ismael; Beltran, Oriol
Reviews for Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees: State, Market, and Landscape
"""...Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees is a most welcome addition to the anthropological literature, especially for scholars specializing in environmental anthropology, policy studies, pastoralism, and globalization (or glocalization). This is a worthy contribution to the relatively scant English-language Pyrenean literature. It is timely, relevant, and reminds us what ethnography can and should be in the twenty-first century.""... - Bryan Cummins, Journal of Anthropological Research"
