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The wildland-urban interface in Poland reflects legacies of historical national borders

political changes over time, which had an impact on historical settlement development. We analysed a database of nearly 15 million building locations and a 10-m Sentinel-2-based land cover map to produce a ... current WUI pattern, since Poland is one of the countries, which experienced Wildland-urban interface; WUI; Land use legacy; Political borders; Poland - substantial political changes over time, which had

Reframing rangeland systems science research in Kenya: a synthesis of social-science mixed methods to inform integrative analysis of landscape pattern and process

pastoralism constantly modify their practices to adapt to social, political, economic, and biophysical change. I outline an approach for integrating research on pastoral livelihoods into a landscape ecology ... synthesize the political, economic, and social relations that have most prominently influenced access to land and restructured landscape process at finer scales. Results Spatial controls have been imposed on

Political borders impact associations between habitat suitability predictions and resource availability

may correlate with crucial resources in the area of calibration, political boundaries can abruptly alter these associations. We investigate this potential discrepancy in a well-known study system highly ... geodata used as proxies and ecologically relevant resources may differ according to history, policies and socio-cultural context, constraining the viability of HSM across political borders. This study

Introducing a flat ontology into landscape research: a case study of water governance experiments in South Africa

politics, inspired by ANT, which he calls experimental metaphysics. Latour (2004, p. 233) defines politics as ‘the progressive composition of a good common world’ and states that political philosophy is ... the implications of bringing about such flat political philosophy, Raffn and Lassen (2021) operationalized Latour’s politics of nature through the design of a series of deliberation and decision

Explaining land use and forest change: more theory or better methodology?

; Glennan 2011; Woodward 2015; Pearl and Mackenzie 2018) . The specific conception of causal explanation advanced here is informed by contemporary writings on the philosophy of explanation, where causal ... conventional explanations and, by doing so, elevating socio-political causes above all others (e.g., Robbins and Fraser 2003; Lestrelin et al. 2013; Munroe et al. 2014) . This fosters confirmation bias (Vayda

From stationary to directional transition: a case study in Doñana

) in sandy dry lands. They stated that individual trees as well as forests and tree plantations may contribute to decreases of water balance at the regional scale. Thus, intrinsic political drivers ... . Extrinsic driving factors of socioeconomic, political, and technological type (irrigation agriculture, urban water supply) that promoted groundwater withdrawal seem to be responsible for landscape and

Are wind turbines integrated into landscape? an analysis of its social perception in a spanish mediterranean area

) Are Internet surveys an alternative to face-to-face interviews in contingent valuation? Ecol Econ 70 ( 9 ): 1628 - 1637 . Lothian L ( 1999 ) Landscape and the philosophy of aesthetics: is landscape

Multi-scale waterfowl habitat conservation planning in Wisconsin, USA

conservation but can be more abstract in larger regional or continental conservation planning. Our models are science-based, transparent, defensible, and can be modified as social, political, biological, and ... including socio-political interests, ecosystem services and stakeholder investment at an appropriate spatial scale. Decision support tools (DSTs) can assist with choice making or informing decisions for a

A global systematic review of forest management institutions: towards a new research agenda

; Meyfroidt and Lambin 2011; Aguiar et  al. 2016; Houghton and Nassikas 2018) , they form part of a complex transformation system— mediated by socio-economic, political, and institutional forces (Malhi et  al ... abstract and invisible conditions in the political environment. They constitute cognitive, normative, and regulatory structures which provide stability and meaning to social behaviour. Institutions are

The Portuguese forest and the Common Agricultural Policy

political agenda of the European Union. This is partly due to the increasingly frequent occurrence of mega fires in several member states, but also to the central role of the forest in combating climate ... population works in the land. This distribution has historical roots that deserve to be studied. Political science theory comprehends a wide range of perspectives and approaches to understanding the

Domains of scale in cumulative effects of energy sector development on boreal birds

census tracts or political boundaries, but has seen little treatment in landscape ecology (Jelinski & Wu 1996; Boyce et  al. 2017) . Our research directly addresses the scale aspect of the MAUP by

Producing landscapes of environmental justice: exploitation of woodlands and wetlands and deep historical geographies of justice on Gotland

-economic) distribution, (cultural) recognition, and (political) participation (Fraser 2003, 2009) . Secondly, and by extension, it presents these dimensions as significant moments in the historical ... ), environmental justice thus morphed into a political and moral demand for recognition of the status and rights of those who were structurally neglected, as well as of citizens’ possibilities to participate in

Entropy in landscape ecology: a response to Stepinski

Ecol 37 : 2735 - 2741 . https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s10980-022-01513-w Uffink J ( 2004 ) Boltzmann's work in statistical physics . In: Salta EN ( ed) The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Summer 2022

Making sense of breaks in landscape change

political changes of the twentieth century, which all have left their imprint in the landscape” (see also Jones 1991). While the twentieth century experienced globally violent periods, Eastern Europe saw ... delve into time-space political, social, economic, cultural context of the time that created that very landscape (Jones 1991; Palang et  al. 2006, 2011; Widgren 2012) . We have pretty good knowledge of

Landscape concepts and approaches foster learning about ecosystem services

The ecosystem services framework aims to encourage ecological sustainability through political-economic decisions. However, it fails to capture the complexity of social–ecological interactions. This ... ecological sustainability through political-economic decisions (Saarikoski et al. 2018). However, this concept has already been challenged by critiques of scientific, operational and ideological nature

Processes and driving forces in changing cultural landscapes across Europe

driving the changes could be identified in the six case study areas, i.e. access and infrastructure, political shifts, labor market, technological innovations, and for the more recent period climate change ... of driving forces determined to be most relevant shows clear limits in predictability: Whereas changes triggered by infrastructural developments might be comparatively easy to model, political

Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology

across landscapes, regions, and political units will be an important research frontier as we develop a science of scaling. As several papers in this special issue demonstrate, we have a sound understanding

Detecting social-ecological resilience thresholds of cultural landscapes along an urban–rural gradient: a methodological approach based on Bayesian Networks

et al. 2022) . The relationship between the quantified resilience of SES and the political aspects related to human well-being could be of great importance to policymakers (Bene et al. 2011; Franco

Insect community reassembly in a spatiotemporally heterogenous restoration landscape

Australia: social, political, historical, and environmental contexts . Restor Ecol 15 : 3 - 10 Geber MA , Moeller DA ( 2006 ) Pollinator responses to plant communities and implications for reproductive