Revisiting the Resilience of Chestnut Forests in Corsica: from Social-Ecological Systems Theory to Political Ecology

The "chestnut civilization" is often used to qualify agrarian inland Corsica. Based on a critical review of historical sources and research on present dynamics, we show how this "civilization" has built up on a long series of resistance and adaptation to external political forces...

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Main Author: Genevieve Michon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2011-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss2/art5/