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This session will facilitate transdisciplinary reflection and dialogue on the relationships between people and plants in the context of Mediterranean Cultural Landscapes. Lying at the intersection of vastly different cultures and biomes, the Mediterranean has long been a space characterised by movement and change. Here, people-plant relationships – and the landscapes in which they are embedded – are continuously being transformed by migrations, natural and cultural cross-pollinations, human and natural disasters and the innovations that blossom in this fertile ground. As these transformations accelerate in a context of rapid socioecological change, we are pressed to find new ways of coping with our precarious and indeterminate environmental futures.
The session brings the conservation sciences into dialogue with emerging social scientific concepts that ‘disrupt’ our binary perspective of nature as separate from culture. In doing so, it hopes to find new spaces for creative and joint reflection on how to conserve Mediterranean plants in rapidly changing landscapes. In particular, it will explore how we can harness the dynamic, active and reciprocal relationships that exist between people and plants in the Mediterranean to sustain existing community conservation initiatives and to build innovative plant conservation actions across the region.
The session will be composed of 10 Pecha Kucha talks followed by an interactive dialogue session.
Emily Caruso (Global Diversity Foundation).
Ugo D’Ambrosio (GDF Mediterranean Ethnobiology Programme Director).
[/vc_column_text][cth_speakers_cpt slidestoshow=”7″ ids=”2523″][vc_column_text]Keynote.
Zaatar and zaitra: a parable of disruption and rewilding in Moroccan cultural landscapes Gary Martin
What’s the point of talking about flowers?. Hub Members: Attard Everaldo, Gerada Mario, Pisani Maria, Radmilli Rachel. Hub Researchers: Cutajar Simone, Lippi Simiona. Hub Collaborations: Caruana Censu, Caruana Joseph, Farrugia Pyt.
Short presentations.
Local knowledge on uses and the ecological sustainability of wild medicinal plant harvesting: a case study on Lemnos island, Greece. Papageorgiou Dimitrios, Schunko Christoph.
Ethnobotanical knowledge in the High Atlas: potential for plant biodiversity conservation. Ugo D’Ambrosio, Irene Teixidor-Toneu, Hajar Salamat , Soufiane M’Sou, Hamid Ait Baskad, Fadma Ait Illigh, Touda Atyah, Giada Bellia, Abdeddaim El Hajjam, Hafida Mouhdach, Hassan Rankou, Emily Caruso & Gary J.Martin.
Conserving and managing local seed crops biodiversity in Sicily: towards functional community seed banks. Cristina Salmeri
Functional seed traits of wild edible East Mediterranean plants. Pablo Gómez-Barreiro, Efisio Mattana, Khaled Abulaila, Joelle Breidy, Nizar Hani , Michiel van Slageren, Elinor Breman, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Cossu, Santiago Vilanova Navarro, Tiziana Ulian.
Conservation of traditional knowledge on wild plants, despite the vanishing of their natural habitats: the case of central spanish wetlands. Segundo RÍOS, Alonso VERDE, José FAJARDO, Vicente CONSUEGRA, Diego RIVERA, Concepción OBÓN4, Francisco ALCARAZ, Vanessa MARTÍNEZ-FRANCÉS, Arturo VALDÉS, José REYES, Estela BARROSO, Luis SAN JOAQUÍN2, José GARCÍA, P. Pablo FERRER- GALLEGO & Emilio LAGUNA.
Plant species translocation in Mediterranean: lessons from the Antiquity on the meaning and value of the alien species. Pietro Minissale.
A quantitative tool to assess local preference for the conservation of Important Plant Areas (IPA): a case study of Sannine-Kneysseh IPA in Lebanon. Salman, M.M., S.N. Talhouk, S. Kharroubi, and M. Itani.
Reconnecting people with plants: implementation of guidelines for ancillary botanical gardens (ABG). Melhem, G. M., Y. Abunnasr, and S.N. Talhouk[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]