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Monitoring mulch-based solutions to reduce runoff and erosion in a variety of l...
Canedo, João; Coelho, Luisa; Basch, Gottlieb; Cabrita, Maria João; Cachapa, Filipa; Caldeira, Filipa; Gonzalez-Pelayo, Óscar; Marques, J. TiagoSoil erosion is a critical socio-environmental problem for rural Mediterranean ecosystems and landscapes. Erosion inflicts multiple, serious damages in agro-ecosystems, including vineyards and olive groves, and also in other semi-natural ecosystems such as the Montado (cattle-sheep pastureland combined with Quercus sp. trees). In particular, erosion reduces the water storage capacity, soil organic matter, nutri...
Geographies of the South. The Study of the Rural Landscape in Portugal: Souther...
Pinto-Correia, T.The landscape is the result of a complex and dynamic system where natural and cultural factors interact, perceived in a particular way by each observer. In Southern Europe, this interaction is particularly complex due to a detailed mosaic of natural conditions and a long history of human occupation. This complexity has been accentuated in recent decades, by overlapping multiple functions in the landscape or a s...
Progress in Identifying High Nature Value Montados: Impacts of Grazing on Hardw...
Pinto-Correia, T.; Guiomar, N.; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, M.I.; Sales-Baptista, E.; Rabaça, J.; Godinho, C.; Ribeiro, N.; Sá-Sousa, P.; Santos, P.Due to their complex structure and traditional low-intensity management, Portuguese oak woodland rangelands known as montados are often considered high nature value (HNV) farming systems, and as such, they may be deemed eligible for subsidies and incentives by governmental and nongovernmental agencies. Too little is known about how the HNV concept might be applied to conserve complex silvopastoral systems. Thes...
ARE INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IMPORTANT TO SUSTAIN HIGH NATURE VALUE FARMING (HNVf)...
Ferraz-de-Oliveira, M. I.; Guimarães, M. H.; Sales-Baptista, E.; Pinto-Correia, T.High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) can be defined as “those areas in Europe where agriculture is a major land use and where that agriculture supports or is associated with either a high species and habitat diversity or the presence of species of European conservation concern, or both”. HNV-Link is an H2020 project that ultimately aims at improving the socio-economic and environmental sustainability of HNVf acros...
MEDIDAS AGRO-AMBIENTAIS BASEADAS EM RESULTADOS: CONCILIAR A PRODUÇÃO COM A CONS...
Ferraz-de-Oliveira, M. I.; Guimarães, M. H.; Sales-Baptista, E.; Pinto-Correia, T.To combine efficient livestock farming with environmental conservation is nowadays an important societal challenge in face of the increased generalised loss of biodiversity. The extensive grazing systems frequently associate with High Nature Value farming areas are central to biodiversity management, particularly in Europe. In order to reverse this trend in biodiversity loss new solutions are needed. The result...
The Montado case study Co-construction of locally-led innovative solutions
Ferraz-de-Oliveira, M. I.; Guimarães, M. H.; Pinto-Correia, T.The interactive relationship between society and science is one of the critical challenges of the modern construction of science. Two premises can be found in research aiming to be socially meaningful. The first premise is the involvement of enlarged peer communities for the co-construction of knowledge in order to enrich scientific research. The second premise is the acknowledgment of the central role of forms o...
"The sustainability of agricultural intensification in the early 21st century: ...
Silveira, A.; Ferrão, J.; Muñoz-Rojas, J.; Pinto-Correia, T.; Guimarães, M.H.; Schmidt, L.Widespread consensus has emerged around the importance of further agricultural intensification, if the nutritional requirements of the everexpanding global population are to be met (fao 2017). Mainstream models of agricultural intensification, closely linked to specialization, have proved to have a strong impact on the environment while also disconnecting agriculture from rural communities (Woods 2011; Primdahl...
Landscape Character Assessment across scales: insights from the Portuguese expe...
Loupa-Ramos, I.; Pinto-Correia, T.This chapter aims at providing insights on the challenges arising from articulating LCA across scales in Portugal. Landscape is already acknowledged in Portuguese legislation since the 1976 constitution - article 66 on the right to quality of life. Despite some experiences in identifying and characterizing landscapes at an ad hoc basis, only following the signature of the European Landscape Convention the Portu...
Human use of natural capital generates cultural and other ecosystem services in...
Bugalho, M.; Pinto-Correia, T.; Pulido, F.Miguel Bugalho, University of Lisbon, with Teresa Pinto Correia, Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Évora, Portugal, and Fernando Pulido, University of Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain, describe the exemple of human use of natural capital generating cultural ecosystem services in the montado and dehesa oak woodlands of the south-western Iberian Peninsula. These two locally adapted management systems h...
Lessons learned while studying ‘emerging transitions’ in farming.
Darnhofer, I.; Sutherland, L.; Pinto-Correia, T.; Schiller, S.This chapter briefly reviews the specificity of farming and associated implications for understanding transitions. It then reviews the lessons learned from case studies on sustainability transitions in European agriculture, especially regarding the definitions of niche and regime in the context of transitions, and in relation to niche-regime interactions. The chapter also briefly reflects on the role of researc...