Local ecological knowledge also comes "from books": cultural change, landscape transformation and conservation of biodiversity in two natural protected areas from Portugal Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • FCT e Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
  • Resumo publicado de comunicação oral apresentada na 10th EASA Biennial Conference: Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • The study of social and economic change and the consequent landscape transformation in Parque Natural de Montesinho and Parque Natural de Douro Internacional (Northeastern Portugal) allows us to discuss the ambivalent relation between the political aims of biodiversity preservation and social reality in protected rural areas.

publication date

  • January 1, 2008