Towards an interdisciplinary approach on ancient forests

      Ancient and old-growth forests: definitions and main conservation issues

      Investigating past forest management legacies of current ancient forests

      Investigating past forest trajectories: from pluridisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity

      “Into the Woods” international conference: advancing interdisciplinarity

      References

Part 1: Perception and management of ancient forests as a natural and cultural heritage

Chapter 1: Distinguishing the definition and meaning of ancient woodland in England

Chapter 2: Managing Walloon ancient woodlands as heritage

Chapter 3: Ancient coppice woodlands in the Czech Republic

Chapter 4: How the ancient forest concept emerged in the French media

Chapter 5: Mediterranean forest users and ancient forests: appreciating nature as a social and welcoming place rather than wilderness

Part 2: Investigating forest ancientness: advocating for interdisciplinarity

Chapter 6: A toolbox to identify and characterize ancient forests in the French Massif Central

Chapter 7: On the ecology of ancient and recent woodlands: the role of the historical approach

Chapter 8: Ancient forest and old-growth forest from the perspective of medieval and modern written sources. The case of the ‘Bois de la Sainte-Baume’ (France, AD late 13th to early 19th centuries)

Chapter 9: Using a dendrochronological and archaeological approach to understand timber uses and ancient forest management in the southern French Alps over the last millennium

Chapter 10: Long-term forest evolution and woodland uses in an ancient charcoal-production forest of the eastern French Pyrenees: an interdisciplinary approach at high spatio-temporal resolution

Part 3: “At the edge of the forest”: other ways to think about ancient and old-growth forests

Chapter 11: The ‘recent’ forests of Mount Venda (Padua, Italy): when historical cartography and archaeobotany tell quite a different story

Chapter 12: Rejuvenating the elderly and aging the youngsters: ancient management practices in continuously renewed native ash tree forests in the High Atlas of Morocco

Chapter 13: The ancient forests of the Argentinean Pampas: challenging old paradigms about a treeless landscape

Chapter 14: Root and branch: a community archaeology and palaeoecology approach to the investigation of a submerged forest at Pett Level, Sussex, UK

Conclusions - Reflections on interdisciplinarity in the social and natural sciences from the perspective of disciplinary frontiers in the face of a complex reality

      Forests: construction between nature and society

      Symbolism of the frontiers and dialogue between disciplines

      References

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