Through the lens of a herder: insights into landscape ethno-ecological knowledge on rangelands in Namaqualand

Cosmological Subjectivities: Exploring 'Truth' Environmentalities in the Haa Highlands of Bhutan

“…Barrera-Bassols and Toledo define ethnoecology as the "study of how nature is perceived by humans through a screen of beliefs and knowledge, and how humans, through their symbolic meanings and representations, use and/or manage landscapes and natural resources" (2005: 11). Ethnoecological research has been used to explore a wide range of issues including conservation (Iaenn 1999;Henfrey 2002), land classifications (Johnson and Hunn 2010;Da Silva et al 2016), language/ toponymy (Fowler 2010;Wartmann and Purves 2018), resource use (Toledo et al 2003;Barrera-Bassols and Toledo 2005;Rokaya et al 2005;Côrtes et al 2014), planning (Samuels et al 2018) and cosmology (Luchman et al 2009;Johnson 2010). The sub-field of landscape ethnoecology focusses on how the surrounding landscape in particular is perceived and represented by human populations (Johnson and Hunt 2011).…”

Change in European Forage and Fodder Plant Indicator Sets over the Past 250 Years

“…This especially concerns herders living in the harsh saline environment of the Hortobágy. Seasonal knowledge is crucial here to use the spatially and temporally highly variable availability of natural forages and fodders (Ghorbani et al 2013; Molnár 2017; Samuels et al 2018). Gyimes farmers were especially knowledgeable about hay, as in the Carpathian mountains livestock is kept in barns for 7 mo/yr and fed on hay collected from species-rich seminatural grasslands in summer (Babai et al 2014).…”