Social capital is considered important for resilience across social levels, including
communities, yet insights are scattered across disciplines. This meta-synthesis of 187 …

Mountains are home to a considerable share of the human population. Around a billion
people live in mountainous areas, which harbor rich natural and sociocultural diversity …

Classical conservation approaches focus on the man-made degradation of ecosystems and
tend to neglect the social-ecological values that human land uses have imprinted on many …

This study investigates the socio-ecological system dominated by pasture land in
Asteroussia Mountains (Crete, Greece) between 1950 and 2010 with the aim to identify …

Land managers need sound, evidence-based information about land degradation patterns
and about the effectiveness of their management responses. Obtaining such information is …

Context Global dynamics affect the sustainability of agricultural landscapes, but these cross-
scale connections are understudied. Therefore, we combine food systems and landscape …

The term high nature value (HNV) farming, acknowledges that the conservation of a large
proportion of European biodiversity and important semi-natural habitats are dependent on …

Based on evidence collected in 22 village communities from nine study sites situated in
Spain, Italy, Greece, Morocco and China, this study analyses the complex interlinkages …

The socio-ecological system dominated by pastureland in the Asteroussia Mountains (Crete,
Greece) was analyzed over a long time interval (1945–2010) to identify the most relevant …

Livestock keeping and food production from grasslands play an important role in the
Mediterranean region, where grazing has a long tradition and still is a key livelihood …