Landscapes are important socio-ecological systems. They widely researched through landscape ecology to aid conservation and environmental management efforts, yet these efforts not always as successful they could be in terms of on-the-ground impact. Increasingly when considering conservation, it is being recognized that indigenously managed landscapes have slower rates biodiversity loss better o...

Deep shale natural gas deposits made accessible by new technologies are quickly becoming a demonstrative share of North America’s energy portfolio. The pace and scale of recent extraction overwhelms local and state planning and regulatory bodies and is exempted from national regulation. Extraction is dispersed and the full extent of cultural and environmental impact is equally dispersed and var...

Europe has an extraordinary variety of cultural landscapes, whose origins date back to the continent’s earliest civilizations. Although the degree of human infl uence varies according to demographic, socioeconomic and cultural factors, man has affected all the features of forests and woodlands, modifying their density, structures and species composition, developing distinctive, locally adapted,...

The controversy over the Columbian Quincentenary identifies two broad issues of fundamental interest to geography: (a) the decimation and displacement of indigenous peoples, leading to creation of new human and cultural landscapes; and {b) the relative ecological impacts of indigenous and Colonial land use, as a prelude lo the global environmental transformation introduced by the Industrial Rev...

BACKGROUND The taste and smell of medicinal plants and their relation to the cultural landscape of a Mapuche-Tehuelche community in the Patagonian steppe was investigated. We assume that the landscapes as a source of therapeutic resources is perceived, classified and named according to different symbolic, ecological and utilitarian criteria which are influenced by chemosensorial appearance of m...