Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research最新文献

{"title":"Bird conservation in the Alpilles, Southern France","authors":"L. Zechner","doi":"10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-2S55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-2S55","url":null,"abstract":"Situated in Southern France, the hills of the Alpilles feature a central limestone massif and are recognized for the diversity of their habitats and landscapes, which include forest and garrigue, rocky habitats, dry grasslands, wetlands and traditional farmland. The LIFE Alpilles project (2013–2019) was developed and managed by the Alpilles Regional Natural Park. The project sought to favour 13 bird species found in this range, some of which, such as Bonelli’s Eagle and the Egyptian Vulture, are among the rarest and most threatened species in France. The project’s undertakings are focused as much on the promotion of human activities, including tourism, agriculture and livestock farming, which contribute to the presence of these species in the Park, as on the conservation of birdlife itself. Profile","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77087954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The state of climate change research in Swiss protected areas","authors":"E. Tolusso","doi":"10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-1S49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-1S49","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is a scientific topic rarely addressed in Swiss protected areas. Starting from a survey of the spatial distribution of research projects addressing climate change in protected areas derived from Parkforschung.ch data, this report highlights some of the main issues that climate change science is facing in developing research interest in the field. The sources of information are expert interviews carried on during 2018. Preliminary remarks on the geography of scientific interest and the role of experts Despite its relatively young age, Switzerland’s system of protected areas (PAs) benefits from a notable collection of research records. Topics ranging from the acceptance of PAs by local populations to specific ecological issues are addressed and stored in a thematic catalogue. However, despite being discussed frequently in both science and policy domains, the topic of climate change is seldom addressed as a research theme in PAs (Table 1). In order to shed light on this peculiar situation, a set of semi-structured interviews was organized between January and June 2018. The research design was informed by the notion of epistemic community, defined as a “group of professionals, often from a variety of different disciplines, which produce policy-relevant knowledge about complex technical issues” (Haas 1992, 16). This framework is intended as a way not only to counter data scarcity but also to understand how policy and management-relevant knowledge is formed and how members of the community interact with it. If “ideas would be sterile without carriers” (Haas 1992, 27), then policies and scientific research – or the lack thereof – can be better understood in their complexity by adopting the standpoints of a variety of different actors. This claim proves especially true in the case of conservation, where communities are formed by an assemblage of scientists, practitioners, managers and policymakers (Lorimer 2015). With the purpose of pursuing this goal, the interviewees in our study were initially selected with the help of two experts on research in PAs from the Swiss Academy of Natural Science (ScNat). Those selected were then divided into four groups (Table 2): (1) scientists currently (or in the recent past) conducting a research project on climate change in PAs; (2) research coordinators or members of a research council; (3) conservationists or administrative managers; (4) external social or natural scientists with a particular perspective on, and expertise in, the issue addressed. Expert interviews helped to define some possible explanations for the relative lack of research projects on the topic of climate change in Swiss PAs and to make sense of the scattered geographical pattern that emerged from the available data. Presenting the main topics arising from the interviews, this report is in several sections examining specific points of interest. However, these points should not be considered discrete and independent, but precisely the","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73240490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A geographical and architectural perspective on Alpine hay meadow abandonment in Bohinj, Slovenia","authors":"D. Kušar, Blaž Komac","doi":"10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-1S32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-1S32","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a combination of architectural and geographical methods for studying the abandonment of Alpine cultural landscapes. It examines the afforestation of hay meadows above the Uskovnica Pasture in the Bohinj Mountains in Slovenia’s Julian Alps. Written sources on the intensity of changes are rare for mountainous areas, and so auxiliary means can be used as indicators. These include abandoned architectural elements, such as the hay barns discussed here. This paper presents a classification of the levels of decay of these buildings, which were used to store fodder over the winter. It uses them as an innovative indicator of changes in the cultural landscape. The study presents the results of a comprehensive, long-term examination of a disappearing cultural heritage: hay meadows in a sensitive protected mountain area of the Alps. Research eco.mont – Volume 11, Number 1, January 2019 ISSN 2073-106X pr int vers ion – ISSN 2073-1558 onl ine vers ion: ht tp://epub.oeaw.ac.at/eco.mont ht tps://dx.doi.org/10.1553/eco.mont-11-1s32 32","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77960410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Karst Biosphere Reserve in Slovenia","authors":"Vanja Debevec, Darja Kranjc","doi":"10.1553/eco.mont-11-2s43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/eco.mont-11-2s43","url":null,"abstract":"The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere programme has proven to be a highly efficient tool for the conservation of natural and cultural heritage and an incentive for efforts towards sustainable development at the Karst Biosphere Reserve in Slovenia. Since the Reserve was established in 2003, the Škocjan Caves Park Public Service Agency, as the managing authority, has gradually developed a system that attempts to link the scientific and research sphere to the local community, while actively involving the community in the Biosphere Reserve’s long-term management through education, awareness raising and participatory approaches. Taking into consideration the human dimension in the environment is essential for the preservation and sustainable use of the ecosystem. Profile","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79058997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New data concerning the butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of Veglia – Devero Natural Park and its surroundings (northwestern Italian Alps)","authors":"A. Battisti, R. Vodă, Matteo Gabaglio, C. Cerrato, R. Bionda, Paolo Palmi, S. Bonelli","doi":"10.1553/eco.mont-11-1s5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/eco.mont-11-1s5","url":null,"abstract":"Species inventories represent a key instrument by which the biodiversity of an area can be better understood and are essential in developing optimal management plans for conservation. We present an annotated checklist of the butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of the Special Area of Conservation Alpi Veglia – Devero – Monte Giove, in the northwestern Italian Alps. The checklist represents the result of research carried out by the authors from 2003 to 2018. We identified 107 species (36.9% of the entire Italian butterfly fauna), eight of which are reported for the first time in the study area. Four species (Erebia christi, Maculinea arion, Parnassius apollo, P. mnemosyne) represent taxa of conservation concern that are included in the European Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC. We recorded a notable percentage (12.2%) of Alpine endemic species and a high number of species of the genus Erebia (17 species, 15.9%), including two highly localized Alpine endemics: E. christi and E. flavofasciata. We report new localities for these two species, discuss in more detail 19 species of particular interest, and for all species we provide information about their distribution and conservation status in the study area. Profile","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85413720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Protection by culling: the crux of red deer management in National Parks","authors":"D. Cywicka, M. Hędrzak, Miroslawa M. Dlugosz, Luiza Tymińska-Czabańska","doi":"10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-2S4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-2S4","url":null,"abstract":"Managing large ungulates in the territory of national parks requires comprehensive knowledge of many factors (population parameters, the distribution of animals and the number of their habitats, their feeding grounds, the intensity and direction of their migration), and skill in responding to the effects of negative chance events. A large number of the factors are by nature stochastic; thus, from a programming perspective, the issue of managing ungulate populations is difficult to formulate as an algorithm. This paper presents a model built using artificial neural networks (ANN). The results obtained with this model show that it is possible to maintain the population in a park without the necessity for culling within its boundaries. The study also demonstrated that culling specifically of hinds in these areas should be increased. The research presents alternative culling strategies for red deer populations in protected areas. Research eco.mont – Volume 11, Number 2, July 2019 ISSN 2073-106X pr int vers ion – ISSN 2073-1558 onl ine vers ion: ht tp://epub.oeaw.ac.at/eco.mont ht tps://dx.doi.org/10.1553/eco.mont-11-2s4 4","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74663113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How conceptions of equity and justice shape national park negotiations: The case of Parc Adula, Switzerland","authors":"A. H. Michel","doi":"10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-1S25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-1S25","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages with conceptions of equity and justice in protected area negotiations and ties in with recent scientific discourses on the importance of social equity for successful biodiversity conservation. I follow the question of how conceptions of justice shaped discussions surrounding a national park project in Switzerland, Parc Adula. The project was rejected in a public vote in 2016. Drawing on qualitative interview data, this article analyses park negotiations and sheds light on a plurality of senses of justice. Whereas Parc Adula as a bottom-up project based on direct democracy already respected just procedures, perceptions of (in-)justice still informed day-to-day discussions and disputes. Thus, I argue that understanding justice as a process that reveals itself in disputes, and acknowledging its plurality, can help understand struggles over conservation and regional development.","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86210391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Popular religion and sustainability: enhancing synergies within a Biosphere Reserve","authors":"Abraham Paulsen, Danilo Petrovich, Andrés Moreira-Muñoz","doi":"10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-2S50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-2S50","url":null,"abstract":"The potential benefits of integrating vernacular religious beliefs into biodiversity conservation and sustainability actions have been emphasized widely, while specific examples and the synergies between religious communities and conservationists in particular spaces deserve more attention. The manifestations of vernacular religions in territories devoted to sustainability, such as Biosphere Reserves (BRs), are a particularly rich area for study. While La Campana-Peñuelas BR has long been recognized as a territory where local religion is an important feature, greater awareness of this and of the potential link to sustainability actions is still lacking, as is awareness of the potential of the BR to become a Multi-Internationally Designated Area. Here we report on the diversity of popular religious activities within the BR. Possible synergies between popular religion and sustainability are based on the strong organizational capacities of local communities, and on an ethical vision of social justice that encompasses both human relations and attitudes towards the non-human beings within the biosphere. Profile","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88361425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Access to and use of the Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve by Turkish and Chinese people living in Austria – implications for planning","authors":"Anna Höglhammer, A. Muhar, P. Stokowski","doi":"10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-2S11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/ECO.MONT-11-2S11","url":null,"abstract":"Peri-urban protected areas such as the UNESCO Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve (WWBR) offer important recreational opportunities. However, access has been shown to be restricted for certain groups, and immigrants from non-western countries especially are found to be under-represented as user groups. This paper presents research findings from a transdisciplinary pilot study undertaken in Vienna and Lower Austria investigating the importance of the WWBR in the leisure lives of immigrants (focusing on Turkish and Chinese immigrants), and barriers that hinder people from using the WWBR. A qualitative research design was adopted, and in total 80 interviews (40 from each community) were obtained. Results show a strong appreciation for natural areas and a high awareness among all participants of the positive impacts for health and well-being. The social environment has a strong influence on outdoor recreation participation, and ethnic-cultural and community-related aspects affecting access were identified. The study shows that planning authorities face challenges in providing adequate information, especially concerning access and on-site use. Gatekeepers are needed to remove access barriers based on fears and insecurities. Other challenges for planning authorities are also addressed, and recommendations for managerial action are presented. Profile","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81282126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A brief history of peer-reviewed mountain journals: how platforms for knowledge relevant to sustainable mountain development emerged","authors":"A. Zimmermann, S. W. V. Dach, Sarah-lan Mathez-Stiefel, D. Molden, Thomas Breu","doi":"10.1553/ECO.MONT-10-2S84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1553/ECO.MONT-10-2S84","url":null,"abstract":"Dedicated academic mountain journals emerged as of the beginning of the 20th century from a need to collect very diverse work focusing on mountains as a fascinating and challenging environment as well as a place of unique livelihood systems. We present a brief overview of the four peer-reviewed, indexed journals that exist today for mountain scholarship and show how strongly connected they are with an understanding of science linked to sustainable development. This specificity is confirmed by the fact that – as of the 1970s – a number of leading mountain scholars from around the world started engaging not only in research but also in policy action to ensure that mountains and mountain development are taken into account in key global sustainable development documents. What has been the added value of mountain journals and what was the motivation for launching them? On the occasion of eco.mont’s tenth anniversary, the editors of the journal Mountain Research and Development were asked to tell the story of mountain journals. The story starts with the Revue de géographie alpine, launched by the French geographer Raoul Blanchard in 1913 with the double aim of bringing together work on the European Alps (and on the French Alps in particular) and making it accessible to a broader scientific public (RGA 1913). Publication of mountain research in specifically dedicated journals thus began as a European geographer’s concern with a fascinating and often challenging environment in which human communities had developed well-adapted and often unique livelihood systems and cultures. This concern with both environmental and developmental issues, along with a recognition of the need to make research relevant to society, has been a key characteristic of mountain journals, of which the following are the main indexed ones published in English: Journal of Alpine Research / Revue de géographie alpine (JAR-RGA); Mountain Research and Development (MRD); Journal of Mountain Science (JMS); and the now ten-year-old eco.mont. Here is their story in a nutshell. Journal of Alpine Research / Revue de géographie alpine (JAR-RGA) Published since its inception by the Institut de Géographie Alpine at the University of Grenoble, France, JAR-RGA became a bilingual journal in 2004. The focus remained the Alpine Arc in Europe until 2012, with occasional articles on other mountain regions worldwide included in focus issues to enable a comparative perspective on mountain issues. On the occasion of the journal’s one-hundredth anniversary in 2013, JAR-RGA’s editors decided to go open access and make English the first language of articles. They also decided to publish translations into other European Alpine languages – French, German, Italian, and Spanish – with a view to “opening French-language thinking to the world even more” (JAR-RGA 2018). Authors’ affiliations are now thoroughly international and the quarterly issues cover a remarkable variety of topics and concerns, often in themati","PeriodicalId":49079,"journal":{"name":"Eco Mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72954768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}