Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

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 environments. Throughout the world, ingenious land-use practices have generated unique cultural landscapes, but these are und...

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Main Authors: Tobias Plieninger, Dan van der Horst, Christian Schleyer, Claudia Bieling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2014-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art59/