A concept proposal to take into account interactions between alpine pasture and farms: the alpine-pasture-farms system
2016
Nettier, B | Dobremez, L | Brunschwig, G
Alpine pastures can be found in all European mountain regions. These management units present typical specific features: agronomic features (composition, seasonality), agricultural use through grazing dur- ing summer, good common status, importance of environmental and heritage issues, multiple non-agricultural use, etc. As a result, building a specific analysis framework is necessary to study the articulation between farms and alpine pastures management. We offer a bibliographic review in order to (1) identify the variety of topics related to interactions between alpine pastures and farms, and (2) analyze the consistency between topics and methodological approaches (systemic approach or not). Most of these papers deal with articula- tion of forage resources, linked with technical and economic issues, or in connection with the issue of long- term management of vegetation. Research generally focuses on a part of alpine pastures specific features, and rarely considers the interactions between the different farms that use a same alpine pasture. We pro- pose the concept of alpine-pasture-farms system to compensate for this lack
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