The application of tree-ring research to the study of cultural heritage has seen important conceptual and methodological developments in the 21 st century. Following the breakthrough discovery in the 1980s of the importation of timber from the south-eastern Baltic to th...

Farmers and archaeologists have one particular thing in common, they both play an important role in the management and preservation of our common physical cultural heritage in the landscapes. But is there any cooperation between those actors? Farmers in general often ha...

The Ramat Hanadiv LTSER platform is a unique texture of the region surrounding Hanadiv Valley and Taninim River basin. It integrates nature values with agriculture, rural communities, and heritage sites. The platform extends over an area of apprx. 15,500 hectares, inclu...

This project examines the response of policymakers, rural people, and social scientists to the major economic and demographic changes transforming the rural United States after 1945. Farm land concentrated increasingly in fewer hands, competitive markets and low prices ...

Erosion of soils due to human activities such as deforestation, pastoralism, and agriculture is a problem that has been recognized since Antiquity. Greece, like much of the of the Mediterranean world, is particularly susceptible to soil loss due to the arid climate and ...

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The study of the history of forestry in Uzbekistan is one of the goals of the environmental policy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the work done and achievements in this area have an important political and practical significance. This article examines the role and i...

The vision of agricultural modernity promoted by the Chinese Communist Party in relation to grain agriculture is fundamentally undergirded by an ethos of productivism and extractivism. The pursuit of this vision has materialized in concrete forms of dismemberment such a...