Kategorie: ECOCULTURE
Developments in conservation
Book outline: In the Name of Conservation – A Critical Analysis from a Personal Point of View ABSRACT OF CONTENTS:
Rural building traditions on Thassos, northern Aegean Sea
Under construction A. Prologue: The aim of this research programme on Thassos is to present an exemplary case study about how the building of village houses and of other rural edifices, as well as the overall settlement patterns evolved locally or rather were brought along during immigration, or were adopted from outside cultural units. Our…
Agro-biodiversity on Thassos, northern Aegean Sea
Thassos, the northern-most large island in the Aegean Sea, was extensively cultivated in antique times. The first settlers with a high level of agriculture were probably the Phoenicians: according to folk tradition they introduced the troumbes variety of olives and they may have been the first farmers to cultivate the land on terraced plots.
Nature conservation on Thassos
When the island that we now call Thassos was discovered in ancient times by the earliest settlers, it was covered by abundant mixed broadleaf and pine forests. In the lowlands near the seashore, extensive wetlands teeming with eels and birds reached inland into wild gorges with rushing water all the year round. A grand natural…
ECOCULTURE: Conservation and Traditional Lifestyles
Considering, integrating, activating, supporting local communities in their conservation efforts. ECOCULTURE was founded by Thomas Schultze-Westrum as an inter-commission task force of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 1981. This movement originated from an earlier working group, Conservation and Traditional Life Styles, set up by the same initiator in the IUCN Commission…