In the Alps as in many mountain areas, livestock farming has constituted an important source of income, especially since the Middle Ages. The importance of livestock farming within the Alpine economy has changed over time due to the dynamics of supply and demand combined with evolving environmental, technological and institutional constraints. This paper focuses on the latter aspect and attempts to reconstruct how the relative importance of the production factors of land, labour and capital changed throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a mountainous area of eastern Trentino. The underlying objective of the investigation is to provide a micro-level empirical basis for hypotheses advanced in the literature regarding the evol...
Despite the acknowledged and celebrated width of documentary sources (literary and epigraphic) relat...
The research aimed at investigating which drivers influence the economic sustainability of mountain ...
From the latter half of the nineteenth century, mixed farming in the Alpine regions of Switzerland u...
The current paper belongs to a set of ongoing multi-scalar and trans-disciplinary research studies i...
The Italian Prealps are a natural passage between the alpine world and the Po plain. The highlands h...
Traditional farming systems have been abandoned to the favour of intensified agricultural practices,...
Extensive livestock systems in mountain areas have a relevant ecological rule. Traditional farms, ba...
This paper analyzed the trends of the livestock sector in the eastern Italian Alps, and then examine...
The Southern Alps, where sheep farming is highly prevalent, is specific to the mountains of the Medi...
The current paper belongs to a set of ongoing multi-scalar and trans-disciplinary research studies i...
Changes in landscape and biodiversity in Alpine areas are strongly related to farmland abandonment. ...
Negli ultimi decenni, le aree montane hanno subito un forte abbandono a causa della crescente compet...
The Mediterranean mountain areas have long been considered poor regions marked by economic archaism....
Centuries-long interactions between men and the mountains have shaped rural landscape, local biodive...
Centuries-long interactions between men and the mountains have shaped rural landscape, local biodive...
Despite the acknowledged and celebrated width of documentary sources (literary and epigraphic) relat...
The research aimed at investigating which drivers influence the economic sustainability of mountain ...
From the latter half of the nineteenth century, mixed farming in the Alpine regions of Switzerland u...
The current paper belongs to a set of ongoing multi-scalar and trans-disciplinary research studies i...
The Italian Prealps are a natural passage between the alpine world and the Po plain. The highlands h...
Traditional farming systems have been abandoned to the favour of intensified agricultural practices,...
Extensive livestock systems in mountain areas have a relevant ecological rule. Traditional farms, ba...
This paper analyzed the trends of the livestock sector in the eastern Italian Alps, and then examine...
The Southern Alps, where sheep farming is highly prevalent, is specific to the mountains of the Medi...
The current paper belongs to a set of ongoing multi-scalar and trans-disciplinary research studies i...
Changes in landscape and biodiversity in Alpine areas are strongly related to farmland abandonment. ...
Negli ultimi decenni, le aree montane hanno subito un forte abbandono a causa della crescente compet...
The Mediterranean mountain areas have long been considered poor regions marked by economic archaism....
Centuries-long interactions between men and the mountains have shaped rural landscape, local biodive...
Centuries-long interactions between men and the mountains have shaped rural landscape, local biodive...
Despite the acknowledged and celebrated width of documentary sources (literary and epigraphic) relat...
The research aimed at investigating which drivers influence the economic sustainability of mountain ...
From the latter half of the nineteenth century, mixed farming in the Alpine regions of Switzerland u...