Over the last few years, considerable attention has been devoted in the scientific literature
and in the media to the concept of “ecosystem” services of soils. The monetary valuation of …

Temperate forests with high values for biological conservation, including old-growth and mid-
aged (> 50 years) semi-natural forests, cover large areas. Many of the forests are protected …

How could it have ever occurred to anyone that living things other than humans are not
social? The more one thinks about it, the more ridiculous an opposition between human …

A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals,
fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and …

Livability is never an exclusively human issue; like all other life forms, we can only live
successfully by living together with others. The set of environmental problems evoked by the …

Achieving sustainable development globally requires multilevel and interdisciplinary efforts
and perspectives. Global goals shape priorities and actions at multiple scales, creating …

Many agricultural villages have transformed from traditional agricultural communities into
tourist destinations to eliminate the progressive degradation, abandonment, ecological and …

The satoyama landscape is a traditional Japanese rural land-use system that represents a
balanced relationship between human beings and nature, thereby sustaining a variety of …

During my childhood, nature was never far away. The vast polder landscapes near my home
village had a lot to offer in terms of wildlife, space, high-sky polder landscapes, and …

Many villages that have transformed from traditional agricultural communities into tourism
destinations to eliminate poverty are encountering ecological and social crises that threaten …