How farmers shape cultural landscapes. Dealing with information in farm systems (Valles County, Catalonia, 1860)

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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X20300418" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X20300418</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106104" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106104</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How farmers shape cultural landscapes. Dealing with information in farm systems (Valles County, Catalonia, 1860)
Original language description
In this paper we propose an approach to understand how different farmer's goals can contribute to structure cultural landscapes and how the information-as-structure held in energy flows within farm systems can be measured. We start from a historical case study located in a Mediterranean landscape in the Valles County (Catalonia, 1860) and apply an optimization model by using a socio-metabolic approach that responds to three different strategies at farm gate: maximizing population, minimizing labour, and maximizing income. The modelled farm pattern of energy flows, the information indicator and the landscape structure that would be obtained under each optimization strategy are then compared with actual historical data. The results obtained confirm that it is the farmers' know-how and culture what allows to manage the energy distribution into the farm system in order to maintain a sustainable management of the territory. We take lessons in terms of socio-ecological transition analysis, and to offer novel insights on how information-as-structure driven by farmers' intentionality, knowledge and cultural practices plays a key role in structuring cultural landscapes.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50700 - Social and economic geography

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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