Home Gardenscapes as Sustainable Landscape Management on St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean
Home gardens are an important topic for landscape research due to their intersectional contributions to plant diversity conservation and local livelihoods. As sites of ecological restoration, gardens transform small-scale landscapes toward higher plant richness and density. We examine “gardenscapes” on St. Eustatius, a small Caribbean island, focusing on how plants growing around a home contribute to ecological and ethnobotanical measures of plant diversity, and how residents value the importance of gardens to their livelihoods. Through a survey of 14 gardenscapes and 11 home interviews, we re... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Schlagwörter: | Caribbean / ethnobotany / gardens / plant diversity / restoration / sustainable landscape management |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26636261 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/su9081310 |