Wood-pasture management in southern Transylvania (Romania): From communal to where?

Publikation: Beiträge in SammelwerkenKapitelbegutachtet

Authors

Wood-pastures developed in many areas of Europe as a shared community resource under the governance of local institutions (for example Vera, 2000; Chételat et al., 2013; see also Bieling and Konold, this volume). While such communal governance systems have largely disappeared in northern and western Europe, they remain widespread in Romania today as a means of grassland and forest regulation (Mantescu, 2009; Sutcliffe et al., 2013). This chapter looks at wood-pasture governance in the region of Târnava Mare in southern Transylvania (central Romania), an area rich in wood-pastures that have been important productive elements of lowintensity farming for centuries, and continue to be actively farmed. It describes their development and structure, stable historical communal management, the destructive impact of the communist era and challenges faced today as Romania is entering a new era of agricultural development. Most villages in the Târnava Mare region have at least one wood-pasture, and they are important not only as a means of sustainable agroforestry, supporting both production and high levels of biodiversity, but also are tightly linked to the cultural history of the region as a community resource. Nevertheless, increasing incidences of felling, burning, changes in management practices and abandonment evidence the fact that the relevance of wood-pastures for local communities is waning and the communal management is failing. These problems cannot be sufficiently addressed by a classical conservation ‘reserve’ approach - there are simply too many wood-pastures and the conservation infrastructure in Romania is too weak. Instead, we discuss some opportunities to strengthen communal institutions to support community use and build on the fact that wood-pastures in Transylvania are still active parts of the farming landscape.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelEuropean Wood-pastures in Transition : A Social-ecological Approach
HerausgeberTibor Hartel, Tobias Plieninger
Anzahl der Seiten16
VerlagTaylor and Francis Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum01.01.2014
Seiten219-234
ISBN (Print)9780415869898
ISBN (elektronisch)9781135139032
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.01.2014

Links

DOI

Zuletzt angesehen

Publikationen

  1. Mapping the Imaginary - Maps in Fantasy Role-Playing-Games
  2. Expatriate performance in terrorism-endangered countries
  3. Environmental Management Accounting for Staff Appraisal
  4. Auf dem Weg zur serviceorientierten Hochschulverwaltung
  5. Exploring the planetary boundary for chemical pollution
  6. Fukushima disaster indirectly threatens lake ecosystems
  7. Zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation in der EU-(Forschung)
  8. Current Status of CSR in the Realm of Supply Management
  9. The plastic yield and flow behavior in metallic glasses
  10. Ecological-economic modeling for biodiversity management
  11. Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Residential Child Care
  12. Imitation-related performance outcomes in social trading
  13. Culture and a cascading model of emotional intelligence
  14. Die Beziehung zwischen CSR und Corporate Sustainability
  15. Throughfall kinetic energy in young subtropical forests
  16. Empowering Communities Through Citizen Entrepreneurship
  17. The Collaborative Production of Meaningful Measure(ment)s
  18. Die Umkehr des Defaults oder was ist Öffentlichkeit 2.0?
  19. Editorial: Die intime Stadt – Kulturen queerer Verbindung
  20. THE OCTOBER-REVOLUTION AS CYCLICAL SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION
  21. Kritische Übergänge. Relationsmodelle der Kritik um 1900
  22. Gegenwart und Zukunft gestalten beginnt im Kindergarten
  23. Kooperation von Lehrkräftebildnern im Langzeitpraktikum
  24. Cooperation in public good games. Calculated or confused?
  25. Herkunftsnachweise und verpflichtende Direktvermarktung
  26. Forschendes Lernen in der angewandten Sozialpsychologie
  27. Klimabedingte Änderungen im Wirtschaftssektor Tourismus
  28. Kommunale Abwasserbehandlung - Antibiotika in der Umwelt
  29. Having Too Many Options Can Make You a Worse Negotiator
  30. Environmental effects of sustainability management tools
  31. An economic analysis of payment for health care services
  32. The liquidity regulation and savings banks' liquid assets
  33. Evaluating the effectiveness of a human factors training