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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.05.001
	Bio-cultural refugia-Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity
	Barthel S.; Crumley C.; Svedin U.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:5
英文摘要	Food security for a growing world population is high on the list of grand sustainability challenges, as is reducing the pace of biodiversity loss in landscapes of food production. Here we shed new insights on areas that harbor place specific social memories related to food security and stewardship of biodiversity. We call them bio-cultural refugia. Our goals are to illuminate how bio-cultural refugia store, revive and transmit memory of agricultural biodiversity and ecosystem services, and how such social memories are carried forward between people and across cohorts. We discuss the functions of such refugia for addressing the twin goals of food security and biodiversity conservation in landscapes of food production. The methodological approach is first of its kind in combining the discourses on food security, social memory and biodiversity management. We find that the rich biodiversity of many regionally distinct cultural landscapes has been maintained through a mosaic of management practices that have co-evolved in relation to local environmental fluctuations, and that such practices are carried forward by both biophysical and social features in bio-cultural refugia including; genotypes, artifacts, written accounts, as well as embodied rituals, art, oral traditions and self-organized systems of rules. Combined these structure a diverse portfolio of practices that result in genetic reservoirs-source areas-for the wide array of species, which in interplay produce vital ecosystem services, needed for future food security related to environmental uncertainties, volatile financial markets and large scale conflicts. In Europe, processes related to the large-scale industrialization of agriculture threaten such bio-cultural refugia. The paper highlights that the dual goals to reduce pressures from modern agriculture on biodiversity, while maintaining food security, entails more extensive collaboration with farmers oriented toward ecologically sound practices. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Anthropocene; Food security; Historical ecology; Social memory; Social-ecological resilience; Sustainability
学科领域	agriculture; biodiversity; ecosystem service; food production; food security; historical ecology; industrialization; sustainability; Europe
语种	英语
scopus关键词	agriculture; biodiversity; ecosystem service; food production; food security; historical ecology; industrialization; sustainability; Europe
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117909
作者单位	Department of History, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115, United States; Centre for Biological Diversity, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Barthel S.,Crumley C.,Svedin U.. Bio-cultural refugia-Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity[J],2013,23(5).
APA	Barthel S.,Crumley C.,&Svedin U..(2013).Bio-cultural refugia-Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity.Global Environmental Change,23(5).
MLA	Barthel S.,et al."Bio-cultural refugia-Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity".Global Environmental Change 23.5(2013).