This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of research on environmental and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary natural resource policy and management. A diverse, international region, the Pyrenees has been characterized as a quintessential example of rural areas across Europe and North America. The authors use qualitative and quantitative methods from economics, history, anthropology, and ecological science to integrate human agency and ecology across a landscape that moved from agricultural and pastoral production to industrialization, then experienced acute depopulation, and now is becoming a focus of conservation and tourism. The book shows how today's most pressing resource policy challenges are best illuminated by this broad, long-term understanding of humans and landscapes.

Chapter 1, Ismael Vaccaro, Oriol Beltran; Chapter 1a, Seth Murray; Chapter 2 Local Places, Global Influences: Pastoralism in Xiberoa and EU Regulation, Meredith Welch-Devine; Chapter 3 Some Lessons from History: Change and Adaptation in the Common Forests of Navarre, 1900-1935, Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi; Chapter 4 Social and Environmental Conflicts in the Planning and Management of Natural Resources in the Aragon's Pyrenees: The Case of Los Valles Occidentales, Xavier Carbonell; Chapter 5 Highlands and Lowlands: Political Ecology and Territorial Conflict, Gaspar Mairal; Chapter 6 Twenty-First Century Transhumants: Social and Economic Change in the Alta RibagorÃ
a, Ferran Estrada, Eli Nadal, Juan Ramón Iglesias; Chapter 7 Pastoralism and Heritage in the Central Pyrenees: Symbolic Values and Social Conflicts, Arnauld Chandivert; Chapter 8 Shepherds, Hydroelectric Stations, and Ski Resorts: The Pallars Sobirà Landscape, Oriol Beltran, Ismael Vaccaro; Chapter 9, Joan Frigolé; Chapter 10, Dolors Comas d'Argemir; Chapter 11, Eric P. Perramond; Chapter 12 Management of Environment and Landscapes in Mountain Areas: Social Representations, Actors, and Institutions in a Regional Natural Park, Pierre Dérioz; Chapter 13, Xavier Roigé, Ferran Estrada;