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Diverse Ecological, Economic and Socio-Cultural Values of a Traditional Common Natural Resource Management System in the Moroccan High Atlas: The Aït Ikiss

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This study examines the multiple dimensions of the agdal system, a traditional Berber form of environmental management that regulates access to communal natural resources so as to allow the regeneration of natural resources. In fact, this ingenious system of agro-pastoral land rotation is ultimately beneficial for the conservation of the bio-physical environment, the performance of the present-day local economy and the maintenance of prevailing social cohesion and cultural coherence. Hence, agdals constitute a key element for the reinforcement of the sustainability of existing agro-pastoral societies and ecosystems, but need to be better understood in order to explore necessary adaptations in the changing world of today.

Source: Environmental Values

DOI: 10.3197/096327112x13400390125939

Authors: Pablo Dominguez, Alain Bourbouze, SÉBastien Demay, Didier Genin, Nicolas Kosoy

Institutions: University of Kent, Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, McGill University

Language: English

Topic: Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2008841209

FWCI: 5.225

Cites: 27

Cited by: 30

Related to: 10