Public land-use patterns have undergone tremendous transformation across different jurisdictions in recent years. Two dominant features of this transformative process include an increase in public awareness of nature conservation, which can be seen from the prevalence of the designation of protected areas (PAs), and an increase in recreational needs that accompanies the blossoming of the nature...

Abstract Sheep farming plays a key role in the sustainability of most depressed rural regions Portugal, particularly Serra da Estrela region, and is recognized as an important source income for many local farmers. Thus, management sheep breeds region has over generations given rise to its emblematic product: cheese, with Protected Designation Origin (PDO). This study aims briefly describe farms...

Quality systems established at Union or national level, including farm certification schemes for agricultural and food products, provide consumers with assurances about the quality characteristics of products production process used as a result farmers' participation in these schemes, confer added value to concerned increase their market opportunities.Until June 2022, Romania received, from Eur...

The article analyses the possibilities of developing an integrated indicator and a model of the assessment of forests naturalness using the data from the database of mountainous spruce forests situated in the Western Carpathians of Slovakia. The article presents two variants of such a model, one based on discriminant analysis, while the second one using an additive approach. The analysis of the...

South America's Tri-national Paraná Atlantic Forest, an ecological region spanning across the nations of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, is one most diverse in world but also vulnerable to deforestation. A review public policy interventions shows all three governments have taken major legislative steps protect remaining forests, studies evaluating deforestation trends associated factors this ar...

godina XVIII (2016.) ■ siječanj veljača ■ broj 1 ■ MESO ■ 89 INTRODUCTION In the European countries there is a growing trend of production and consumption of traditional meat products. Consequently, intense researches of their dietary and nutritional value are performed. It is known that manufacturing of traditional meat products is not standardized and is generally monitored subjectively witho...

Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Salers and Cantal are two French uncooked semi-hard cheeses. Despite a quite similar cheese-making process, both types cheeses exhibit specific sensory attributes. produced with either milk or from “other cow breeds.” The aim this study is to evaluate the properties in order differentiate cheese: versus combining consumer test (n = 152) using CATA method pr...

Over 100 years ago, Oeller described for the first time the presence of anastomoses between the retinal and choroidal circulations in eyes with disciform scars(1). Later, these were recognized in association with laser photocoagulation(2), radiotherapy(3), chorioretinal inflammatory diseases(4) and parafoveal telangiectasias(5). The interest in this condition even led to anatomopathological stu...