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| Pàgina inicial > Articles > Articles publicats > Governance, Mobility, and Pastureland Ecology. An Eco-Anthropological Study of Three Pastoral Commons in Northeastern Andalusia |
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural) (Universidad de Jaén. Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología) (Universidad de Jaén. Instituto Interuniversitario del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía) (Universitat de Girona. Departament de Geografia) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)
| Data: | 2024 |
| Resum: | Community-based natural resource governance is increasingly valued by the leading international organizations that promote environmental conservation and sustainable development. At the same time, the ecosystems of the northeastern Andalusian mountains are intrinsically related to the long-standing presence of pastoralism and its different communal forms that have favored a very particular biocultural diversity and sustainable socio-ecological systems locally. Through a transdisciplinary anthropological and ecological study, we aimed to compare how different types of communal governance and pastoral mobilities impact pasturelands in the region. We focused on three contiguous mountain pastoral commons, those of Castril, Santiago de la Espada, and Pontones, which exhibit different forms of communal organization and two main transhumant types of mobility: long-distance and short-distance transhumance. We conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork with year-round participatory observations of social life, pastoral practices, and governance systems, and performed botanical and soil analyses. As a general result, we found that local pastoralism positively impacts the environment. There were differences between commons and mobility regimes, with a positive impact related mainly to closer forms of cooperation between herders and daily guiding of flocks, along with seasonal long-distance transhumance, especially when the latter is combined with stricter formal community rules. Within the current context highly determined by public subventions, particularly from the EU, primarily directed at pastureland management's administrative and economic aspects, local governance increasingly favors these methods over the conservation of traditional, sustainable uses of pastures. This innovative research marks the first step towards a sounder intertwining of anthropological and ecological approaches towards a more holistic understanding of pastoral commons in general and in the Mediterranean region specifically. |
| Ajuts: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CSO2015-74467-JIN Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CSO2015-72607-EXP Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CSO2016-SPID201600 × 078845IV0 Agencia Estatal de Investigación CSO2016-78827-R Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades RyC2018-025958-I Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación JDC2022-050056-I |
| Nota: | Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB |
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| Llengua: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Matèria: | Mountain pastoral commons ; Transhumance ; Governance ; Social anthropology ; Pastoral ecology ; Andalusia ; Mediterranean |
| Publicat a: | Human ecology (Dordrecht), Vol. 52 (April 2024) , p. 303-318, ISSN 1572-9915 |
