Urbanized man and the longing for a New Wilderness
In the intensively used agricultural, industrial and urban landscapes of the Netherlands, a lot of public interest is attracted by spontaneous nature in areas where nature ‘just happens’ instead of being planned and rigidly managed. In pilot projects the
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Bernd Redecker . Peter Finck . Werner Hardtle Uwe Riecken . Eckhard Schroder (Eds.)
Pasture Landscapes and Nature Conservation
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DLBERNDREDECKER Prof. Dr. WERNER HĂRDTLE
University of Liineburg Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry ScharnhorststraBe 1 21332 Liineburg Germany Dr. PETER FINCK Dr. UWE RIECKEN Dr. ECKHARD SCHRODER
German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation KonstantinstraBe 110 51379 Bonn Germany ISBN 978-3-642-55953-2 (eBook) ISBN 978-3-642-62747-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-55953-2
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Preface One of the main objectives of nature conservation in Europe is to protect valuable cultural landscapes characterized by a mixture of open habitats and hedges, trees and patchy woodland (semi-open landscapes). The development of these landscapes during the past decades has been characterized by an ongoing intensification of land use on the one hand, and an increasing number of former meadows and pastures becoming fallow as a result of changing economic conditions on the other hand. Since species adapted to extensively used open and semi-open landscapes contribute to biodiversity in Europe in a major way, this development is of great concern to nature conservation. In several countries largescale, low-intensity pastoral systems have been recognized as one solution to this problem. If these systems can succeed in combining nature conservation objectives with an economic and healthy production of meat and other livestock products, they also could offer an alternative to intensive, industrial livestock raising in Europe.
