The Olive Landscapes of the Mediterranean: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Their Sustainability in the Early Xxist Century

Muñoz-Rojas, José, García Ruiz, Roberto

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-12-26
  • 售價: $7,630
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 667
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031579550
  • ISBN-13: 9783031579554
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商品描述

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the current models and typologies of olive landscapes and related farming systems in the Mediterranean. It also explores potential prospects for monitoring and enhancing their sustainability standards. Olive groves are an essential component of the historical landscape that largely drive the cultural, ecological and socio-economic character of the region. Agronomic intensification and mechanization, market globalization and delocalization, and financialization are affecting these ancient farming systems in certain olive landscapes, whereas others are threatened by abandonment and financial loss. This complex set of processes is resulting in a heterogeneous mosaic of olive landscapes when examined across nested spatial-temporal scales and institutional levels. In alignment with such complexity, multiple challenges are arising linked to sustainability standards and targets. Sustainability has actually been the subject of much public discussion and yet of not nearly enough scientific evidence-gathering that is both robust and comparable across geographic contexts and scales. This is where this book is expected to provide a meaningful contribution.

Ultimately, the main objective of this book is to establish a base-line sustainability picture of the complex mosaic of olive landscapes across the Mediterranean region. The book is structured along a series of national /regional and thematic reviews and syntheses, which lead to joined-up reflections on current and future challenges, opportunities and trajectories for enhancing the sustainability of olive landscapes across the Mediterranean. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers, policy-makers, the farming community, and market agents alike. We expect that they will find in this book an overall picture of the sector s current situation and plausible pathways for achieving enhanced sustainability standards, whilst also permitting the reader to gain depth on the contingent characteristics of the different drivers, components and typologies of these dynamic and valuable landscapes.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書提供了對地中海地區橄欖景觀及相關農業系統當前模型和類型的最先進回顧。它還探討了監測和提升其可持續性標準的潛在前景。橄欖樹園是歷史景觀的重要組成部分,對該地區的文化、生態和社會經濟特徵有著重要影響。農業集約化和機械化、市場全球化和去地化、以及金融化正在影響某些橄欖景觀中的這些古老農業系統,而其他系統則面臨被遺棄和財務損失的威脅。當從嵌套的空間-時間尺度和制度層面進行檢視時,這一複雜的過程導致了橄欖景觀的異質性馬賽克。與這種複雜性相一致,與可持續性標準和目標相關的多重挑戰正在出現。可持續性實際上已成為許多公共討論的主題,但在地理背景和尺度上,卻缺乏足夠的穩健且可比較的科學證據。這正是本書預期能夠提供有意義貢獻的地方。

最終,本書的主要目標是建立地中海地區橄欖景觀複雜馬賽克的基線可持續性圖景。本書的結構圍繞一系列國家/區域和主題的回顧與綜合,這些回顧與綜合引導出對當前和未來挑戰、機會及提升地中海橄欖景觀可持續性的路徑的綜合反思。本書將吸引學術界和研究人員、政策制定者、農業社群以及市場參與者的興趣。我們期望他們能在本書中找到該行業當前狀況的整體圖景以及實現提升可持續性標準的可行路徑,同時也讓讀者深入了解這些動態且珍貴景觀的不同驅動因素、組成部分和類型的偶然特徵。

作者簡介

José Muñoz-Rojas is Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Universidade de Évora (Portugal). He is a rural geographer and landscape ecologist, with a focus in unraveling the complex and non-linear trajectories of change in Mediterranean rural landscapes, and devising pathways to enhance their sustainability and resilience. He is a member of the editorial board on Landscape Ecology (Springer-Nature) and of the scientific board of the European chapter of the International Association of Landscape Ecology. He is also a small olive farmer in Alentejo (Portugal), where he lives with his family...and other animals.

Roberto García-Ruiz is full Professor in Ecology, coordinator of the Ecology section of the University Institute of research olive groves and olive oil and Researcher at the University of Jaén (Spain). As a dedicated researcher, his work centers on evaluating the effectiveness of sustainable management practices in enhancing ecosystem services, with a particular emphasis on climate change mitigation, soil health, and the dynamics of organic carbon and nutrients.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

José Muñoz-Rojas 是葡萄牙埃沃拉大學的助理教授和研究員。他是一位農村地理學家和景觀生態學家,專注於揭示地中海農村景觀中複雜且非線性的變化軌跡,並設計增強其可持續性和韌性的方法。他是《景觀生態學》(Landscape Ecology,Springer-Nature)的編輯委員會成員,以及國際景觀生態學協會歐洲分會的科學委員會成員。他還是一位小型橄欖農場主,居住在葡萄牙的阿連特茹,與家人和其他動物一起生活。

Roberto García-Ruiz 是西班牙哈恩大學的生態學全職教授,並擔任橄欖樹和橄欖油研究大學研究所的生態學部門協調員。作為一名專注的研究者,他的工作重點在於評估可持續管理實踐在增強生態系統服務方面的有效性,特別強調氣候變遷緩解、土壤健康以及有機碳和養分的動態。