Farming systems have to face challenges that originate in changes of global dimension in both the bio-physical and the societal sphere, such as Climate change (leading to increasing weather uncertainty and raising average temperatures, thus impacting agro-ecosystems and water supplies); Food safety concerns (spreading in Europe while in other regions food security remains a challenge) and Changing consumption p...
Farming systems have to face challenges that originate in changes of global dimension in both the bio-physical and the societal sphere, such as Climate change (leading to increasing weather uncertainty and raising average temperatures, thus impacting agro-ecosystems and water supplies); Food safety concerns (spreading in Europe while in other regions food security remains a challenge) and Changing consumption p...
L'intérêt croissant porté aux paysages constitue une nouvelle avenue pour le développement des territoires ruraux. Largement créés par l’agriculture, les paysages ruraux sont cependant marqués par une uniformisation, souvent interprétée comme une dégradation. Comment aider à façonner l’avenir de ces paysages afin qu’ils deviennent un moteur de nouvelles dynamiques de développement rural?
A criação da RRN, cujo programa específico foi aprovado por Decisão da Comissão de 3 de Dezembro de 2009, veio introduzir um espaço de debate alargado e uma plataforma de partilha e divulgação de conhecimento e informação entre as organizações públicas e privadas direta e indiretamente ligadas ao desenvolvimento rural. O programa da RRN está intimamente ligado aos programas de desenvolvimento rural já que todos...
Este trabalho visa apresentar uma iniciativa que tem vindo a decorrer em Montemor-o-Novo nos últimos dois anos e que evidencia novas procuras de terra agrícola, sempre para produção, mas tendo como motivação tanto o rendimento económico como o usufruto da terra como espaço de lazer. Por outro lado, esta iniciativa que surgiu em 2010 a partir da “Rede de Cidadania” (Rede), um grupo informal de cidadãos desta cid...
European peripheric rural areas and mediterranean areas in particular have been under significant changes, affecting land use and landscape pattern. The changing factors, including productivist and post-productivist trends, which are combined in different ways and have followed quite diverse directions and intensities in different regions (Wilson, 2007). Regarding the Mediterranean peripheral areas it has been ...
The rural development policy community is calling for new transdisciplinary approaches to convey public preferences into meaningful measures for assessing landscape capacity to provide public goods. Some of the public goods which rural landscapes provide relate to landscape appreciation which reflects people’s preferences for particular features in a given landscape or certain geographic unit. Assessing landsca...
This paper presents an expedite method to upscale land cover pattern preferences as expressed by tourists based on landscape metrics as indicators. Ten preferred land cover patterns previously considered in the Landscape Preferences Spatial Framework (LPSF) (Ribeiro et al, 2013) were searched and evaluated over the study area (Alentejo, Portugal) using PLAND (% of landscape of each land cover) maps built with F...
Recent studies show that introducing the ecosystem service concept into policy and decisionmaking requires spatially explicit information on the state and trends of ecosystems and their services (Maes et al., 2012). Current spatially explicit approaches are often based on land cover assessments (Burkhard et al., 2009; Nelson et al., 2009), assigning values of ecosystem service provision to each land cover class...
Around all towns in the Alentejo region, the landscape is dominated by an agricultural mosaic, where small scale farming dominates, composed of olive groves combined with pastures, fruit orchards, and vegetable gardens, in the most fertile and water abundant soils. This is a totally different pattern then the large scale landscape of the extensive silvo-pastoral systems in the latifundia that normally is associ...
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