L Calvet-Mir
Biographic Data
| ID | 25476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Calvet-Mir |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Calvet-Mir |
| SIGNATURE | CALVET-MIR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7022-6342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 306 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Experienced climate change impacts help explain subjective well‐being—Evidence from 14 nature‐dependent communities
Climate change profoundly affects well‐being in complex and interconnected ways. However, the relationship between climate change and well‐being has been explored in only a handful of settings, most of which are industrialized. Here, we investigate the association between perceived climate change impacts, their severity and subjective well‐being (measured as life satisfaction) using cross‐culturally comparable first‐hand reports from 2488 partici…
Livelihood resilience: The role of social‐ecological filters in a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System of southern Chile
The global agrifood system faces significant threats due to rapid and interconnected social‐ecological changes, including climate change, land‐use shifts, demographic changes and emerging diseases. Small‐scale farmers are among the most vulnerable groups to these changes due to their direct dependence on their environment. The resilience of small‐scale farming livelihoods may be influenced by several social‐ecological filters, which are the coupl…
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: Mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Landraces and climate change: Global Trends Through the Lens of Political Agroecology
From grains to berries: Causes and consequences of crop portfolio changes in four mountain agroecosystems in the Iberian Peninsula
In the face of ongoing crop homogenization, preserving crop diversity is crucial for maximizing ecological interactions and reducing the risk of total crop failure. This study focuses on remote European mountain agroecosystems, where significant crop diversity reservoirs still exist. Existing literature identifies market forces, policies, and climate change as key factors influencing crop portfolios. However, limited research exists on the cultur…
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: Insights From Scientific and Local Ecological Knowledge
The escalating human-driven pressures, such as coastal development, climate change, and overfishing, have led to habitat degradation and declines in marine resource abundance. These impacts pose significant threats to the livelihoods of coastal communities, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea. In situations where stock assessment data is scarce, fishers’ ecological knowledge (FEK) has proven valuable for understanding the ecological status of m…
Socially embedding the food system: The role of alternative food initiatives to build sustainable food models
The current industrial food system is failing in all aspects of sustainability. Alternative Food Initiatives (AFIs) and the industrial green food market (iGFM) both claim that they are building sustainable food models. This study looks into common strengths and challenges of AFIs in relation to iGFM. The research conducted a comparative case study of AFIs in the city of Sant Cugat del Vallès in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain) through a…
So many things have changed”: Situated understandings of climate change impacts among the Bassari, south-eastern Senegal
Drought-tolerant indigenous crops decline in the face of climate change: A political agroecology account from south-eastern Senegal
In south-eastern Senegal, Bassari farmers have historically cultivated and consumed a wide diversity of varieties of sorghum, fonio, and Bambara groundnut, most of which thrive in poor soils, are nutritious, and withstand drought. These crops are now on the verge of disappearance from the fields of the Bassari despite their potential fit in the predicted drier climate in the area. To understand why, we explore the intertwining between the local d…
The role of convenience stores in healthy food environments: The case of Barcelona (Spain)
Urban commons and the local state: Co-production between enhancement and co-optation
Urban commons have emerged within the latest mobilization cycle, and have developed forms of everyday politics. Marxist and social movement scholars tend to see the urban commons/local state interactions that assemble commons’ material infrastructure as the prelude to commons being co-opted. Governance scholars uphold that these interactions can bring political benefits to the commons. By bridging these two perspectives, this article analyses urb…
Indigenous and Local Knowledge’s Role in Social Movement’s Struggles Against Threats to Community-Based Natural Resource Management Systems: Insights from a Qualitative Meta-analysis
Despite the international consensus about the benefits of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) for sustainable resource governance, Indigenous peoples and local communities continue to face threats to their self-governance stemming from shortsighted government regulations, marginalization, and other global political economy forces. To contribute to scholarship on the impact of social movements on CBNRM organization and robustness, …
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: Insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture
Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the Conect-e Case Study
Citizen science (CS) is growing quickly, given its potential to enhance knowledge coproduction by diverse participants, generating large and global data sets. However, uneven participation in CS is still an important concern. This work aims to understand (1) participation dynamics in CS and (2) how they are shaped by participation barriers and drivers. We do so by examining participation in CONECT-e, a CS project that uses a wiki-like platform to…
Seeds of change: Reversing the erosion of traditional agroecological knowledge through a citizen science school program in Catalonia, Spain
Benyei, P., L. Aceituno-Mata, L. Calvet-Mir, J. Tardío, M. Pardo-de-Santayana, D. García-del-Amo, M. Rivera-Ferre, M. Molina-Simón, A. Gras-Mas, A. Perdomo-Molina, S. Guadilla-Sáez, and V. Reyes-García. 2020. Seeds of change: reversing the erosion of traditional agroecological knowledge through a citizen science school program in Catalonia, Spain. Ecology and Society 25(2):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11471-250219
Analysis of the consumer’s perception of urban food products from a soilless system in rooftop greenhouses: A case study from the Mediterranean area of Barcelona (Spain)
Unravelling stakeholder participation under conditions of neoliberal biodiversity governance in Catalonia, Spain
The restructuring of biodiversity governance in Europe during the last two decades has been, inter alia, based on the argument that effective conservation hinges on consensual decision-making involving all relevant stakeholders. This has given rise to various network-based forms of governance and participatory arrangements in protected areas reinforcing the involvement of business and non-state actors, particularly through the creation of profita…
Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: University training for local Agroecological Dynamization
Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona
Throughout the 20th century, urban gardening in central and northern Europe as well as in North America has received a great deal of academic attention. However, the recent proliferation of urban gardening in other geographies, such as southern Europe in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2007–2008, remains underexplored. The economic crisis put on hold urban developments in many southern European cities, leaving idle plots of land waiting t…
Networking the environment: Social Network Analysis in Environmental Management and Local Ecological Knowledge Studies
Salpeteur, M., L. Calvet-Mir, I. Diaz-Reviriego, and V. Reyes-García. 2017. Networking the environment: social network analysis in environmental management and local ecological knowledge studies. Ecology and Society 22(1):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08790-220141
Ecosystem services provided by urban gardens in Barcelona, Spain: Insights for policy and planning
A Matter of Taste: Local Explanations for the Consumption of Wild Food Plants in the Catalan Pyrenees and the Balearic Islands1
Humans, Plants, and Networks
In recent years, Social Network Analysis (SNA) has increasingly been applied to the study of complex human-plant relations. This quantitative approach has enabled a better understanding of (1) how social networks help explain agrobiodiversity management, and (2) how social relations influence the transmission of local ecological knowledge (LEK) related to plants. In this paper, we critically review the most recent works pertaining to these two li…
Payments for ecosystem services in the tropics: A closer look at effectiveness and equity
From famine foods to delicatessen: Interpreting trends in the use of wild edible plants through cultural ecosystem services
From famine foods to delicatessen: Interpreting trends in the use of wild edible plants through cultural ecosystem services
Beyond food production: Ecosystem services provided by home gardens. A case study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Northeastern Spain
Resilience of traditional knowledge systems: The case of agricultural knowledge in home gardens of the Iberian Peninsula
Ecosystem services provided by urban gardens in Barcelona, Spain: Insights for policy and planning
Gendered Homegardens: A Study in Three Mountain Areas of the Iberian Peninsula
A Matter of Taste: Local Explanations for the Consumption of Wild Food Plants in the Catalan Pyrenees and the Balearic Islands1
Payments for ecosystem services in the tropics: A closer look at effectiveness and equity
The Transmission of Home Garden Knowledge: Safeguarding Biocultural Diversity and Enhancing Social–Ecological Resilience
The last decades have witnessed a growing research interest of local ecological knowledge (LEK), with some research focusing on its effective transmission for natural resource management. Here we contribute to this body of research by focusing on an understudied agroecosystem: home gardens in rural areas of developed countries. We characterize home garden knowledge in Vall de Gósol (Catalan Pyrenees) and analyze the modes of transmission of such …
Seed Exchange as an Agrobiodiversity Conservation Mechanism. A Case Study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula
Calvet-Mir, L., M. Calvet-Mir, J. Luis Molina, and V. Reyes-García. 2012. Seed exchange as an agrobiodiversity conservation mechanism. A case study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula. Ecology and Society 17(1): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04682-170129
Is there a divide between local medicinal knowledge and Western medicine? a case study among native Amazonians in Bolivia
BACKGROUND: Interest in ethnomedicine has grown in the last decades, with much research focusing on how local medicinal knowledge can contribute to Western medicine. Researchers have emphasized the divide between practices used by local medical practitioners and Western doctors. However, researchers have also suggested that merging concepts and practices from local medicinal knowledge and Western science have the potential to improve public healt…
Landraces in situ Conservation: A Case Study in High-Mountain Home Gardens in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula1
Networking the environment: Social Network Analysis in Environmental Management and Local Ecological Knowledge Studies
Salpeteur, M., L. Calvet-Mir, I. Diaz-Reviriego, and V. Reyes-García. 2017. Networking the environment: social network analysis in environmental management and local ecological knowledge studies. Ecology and Society 22(1):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08790-220141
Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona
Throughout the 20th century, urban gardening in central and northern Europe as well as in North America has received a great deal of academic attention. However, the recent proliferation of urban gardening in other geographies, such as southern Europe in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2007–2008, remains underexplored. The economic crisis put on hold urban developments in many southern European cities, leaving idle plots of land waiting t…
Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: University training for local Agroecological Dynamization
Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the Conect-e Case Study
Citizen science (CS) is growing quickly, given its potential to enhance knowledge coproduction by diverse participants, generating large and global data sets. However, uneven participation in CS is still an important concern. This work aims to understand (1) participation dynamics in CS and (2) how they are shaped by participation barriers and drivers. We do so by examining participation in CONECT-e, a CS project that uses a wiki-like platform to…
Metropolitan geographies of urban commons: Mapping socio-economic alternatives in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Urban commons and the local state: Co-production between enhancement and co-optation
Urban commons have emerged within the latest mobilization cycle, and have developed forms of everyday politics. Marxist and social movement scholars tend to see the urban commons/local state interactions that assemble commons’ material infrastructure as the prelude to commons being co-opted. Governance scholars uphold that these interactions can bring political benefits to the commons. By bridging these two perspectives, this article analyses urb…
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: Insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture
Participation in protected areas: A social network case study in Catalonia, Spain
Calvet-Mir, L., S. Maestre-Andrés, J. Molina. and J. van den Bergh. 2015. Participation in protected areas: a social network case study in Catalonia, Spain. Ecology and Society 20(4):45.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07989-200445
Seeds of change: Reversing the erosion of traditional agroecological knowledge through a citizen science school program in Catalonia, Spain
Benyei, P., L. Aceituno-Mata, L. Calvet-Mir, J. Tardío, M. Pardo-de-Santayana, D. García-del-Amo, M. Rivera-Ferre, M. Molina-Simón, A. Gras-Mas, A. Perdomo-Molina, S. Guadilla-Sáez, and V. Reyes-García. 2020. Seeds of change: reversing the erosion of traditional agroecological knowledge through a citizen science school program in Catalonia, Spain. Ecology and Society 25(2):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11471-250219
Landraces and climate change: Global Trends Through the Lens of Political Agroecology
So many things have changed”: Situated understandings of climate change impacts among the Bassari, south-eastern Senegal
The role of convenience stores in healthy food environments: The case of Barcelona (Spain)
Analysis of the consumer’s perception of urban food products from a soilless system in rooftop greenhouses: A case study from the Mediterranean area of Barcelona (Spain)
Humans, Plants, and Networks
In recent years, Social Network Analysis (SNA) has increasingly been applied to the study of complex human-plant relations. This quantitative approach has enabled a better understanding of (1) how social networks help explain agrobiodiversity management, and (2) how social relations influence the transmission of local ecological knowledge (LEK) related to plants. In this paper, we critically review the most recent works pertaining to these two li…
La división entre el conocimiento medicinal local y la medicina occidental. Caso de estudio entre los Tsimane' en la Amazonía Boliviana
El interés en el conocimiento ecológico local ha crecido en las últimas décadas con mucha investigación centrada en como el conocimiento ecológico local puede contribuir en manejar sistemas complejos. Los investigadores han subrayado que la mezcla las dos diferentes epistemologías que representan el conocimiento medicinal local y la ciencia occidental tiene el potencial de crear instituciones locales para mejorar la salud pública, promover la con…
Do the aged and knowledgeable men enjoy more prestige? A test of predictions from the prestige-bias model of cultural transmission
Is there a divide between local medicinal knowledge and Western medicine? a case study among native Amazonians in Bolivia
BACKGROUND: Interest in ethnomedicine has grown in the last decades, with much research focusing on how local medicinal knowledge can contribute to Western medicine. Researchers have emphasized the divide between practices used by local medical practitioners and Western doctors. However, researchers have also suggested that merging concepts and practices from local medicinal knowledge and Western science have the potential to improve public healt…
Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills: An empirical analysis from an Amerindian society
Traditional Ecological Knowledge Trends in the Transition to a Market Economy: Empirical Study in the Doñana Natural Areas
Researchers and conservation managers largely agree on the relevance of traditional ecological knowledge for natural resource management in indigenous communities, but its prevalence and role as societies modernize are contested. We analyzed the transmission of traditional knowledge among rural local people in communities linked to protected areas in Doñana, southwestern Spain. We studied changes in knowledge related to local practices in agricul…
Gendered Homegardens: A Study in Three Mountain Areas of the Iberian Peninsula
Landraces in situ Conservation: A Case Study in High-Mountain Home Gardens in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula1
Beyond food production: Ecosystem services provided by home gardens. A case study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Northeastern Spain
Does Crop Diversification Pay Off? An Empirical Study in Home Gardens of the Iberian Peninsula
Because of its potential role in providing ecosystem services and private benefits (food security), the concern about the loss of agrobiodiversity has grown. We explore the links between agrobiodiversity and farm financial benefits in small-scale agroecosystems. We measured crop diversity in a subsistence-oriented agricultural production system: home gardens (n = 250) in the Iberian Peninsula. We calculated the imputed market value of home garden…
Seed Exchange as an Agrobiodiversity Conservation Mechanism. A Case Study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula
Calvet-Mir, L., M. Calvet-Mir, J. Luis Molina, and V. Reyes-García. 2012. Seed exchange as an agrobiodiversity conservation mechanism. A case study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula. Ecology and Society 17(1): 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04682-170129
Applied research in ethnoecology: Fieldwork experiences
Ethnoecology studies human beings' relation with their environment aiming at understanding several current social-ecological problems such as ecological degradation and loss of cultural diversity, mainly from a local point of view. Since 2006, the research team of the Ethnoecology Laboratory (Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona) is conducting research projects focused on the study of social, cultural, political, and ecological factors and dynamics i…
Investigación aplicada en etnoecología: Experiencias De Campo
La etnoecología estudia las relaciones entre los humanos y el medioambiente en el que viven, contribuyendo a entender algunos de los problemas socio-ecológicos actuales, como la degradación ecológica o la pérdida de diversidad cultural, desde un punto de vista eminentemente local. Desde el 2006, el Laboratorio de Etnoecología de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona desarrolla proyectos de investigación dirigidos a estudiar factores y dinámicas so…
Resilience of traditional knowledge systems: The case of agricultural knowledge in home gardens of the Iberian Peninsula
Factors Enhancing Landrace in Situ Conservation in Home Gardens and Fields in Vall de Gósol, Catalan Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula
Research on landrace in situ conservation has examined the socio-economic characteristics of landrace custodians and the social organizations where landrace diversity occurs. However, researchers have paid less attention to the distinctive features that result in landraces of some crops being preserved while others are abandoned. In this work, we analyze reasons behind landraces’ in situ conservation or abandonment. We worked in temperate home ga…
Payments for ecosystem services in the tropics: A closer look at effectiveness and equity
From famine foods to delicatessen: Interpreting trends in the use of wild edible plants through cultural ecosystem services
The Transmission of Home Garden Knowledge: Safeguarding Biocultural Diversity and Enhancing Social–Ecological Resilience
The last decades have witnessed a growing research interest of local ecological knowledge (LEK), with some research focusing on its effective transmission for natural resource management. Here we contribute to this body of research by focusing on an understudied agroecosystem: home gardens in rural areas of developed countries. We characterize home garden knowledge in Vall de Gósol (Catalan Pyrenees) and analyze the modes of transmission of such …
Participation in protected areas: A social network case study in Catalonia, Spain
Calvet-Mir, L., S. Maestre-Andrés, J. Molina. and J. van den Bergh. 2015. Participation in protected areas: a social network case study in Catalonia, Spain. Ecology and Society 20(4):45.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07989-200445
Ecosystem services provided by urban gardens in Barcelona, Spain: Insights for policy and planning
A Matter of Taste: Local Explanations for the Consumption of Wild Food Plants in the Catalan Pyrenees and the Balearic Islands1
Humans, Plants, and Networks
In recent years, Social Network Analysis (SNA) has increasingly been applied to the study of complex human-plant relations. This quantitative approach has enabled a better understanding of (1) how social networks help explain agrobiodiversity management, and (2) how social relations influence the transmission of local ecological knowledge (LEK) related to plants. In this paper, we critically review the most recent works pertaining to these two li…
Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona
Throughout the 20th century, urban gardening in central and northern Europe as well as in North America has received a great deal of academic attention. However, the recent proliferation of urban gardening in other geographies, such as southern Europe in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2007–2008, remains underexplored. The economic crisis put on hold urban developments in many southern European cities, leaving idle plots of land waiting t…
Networking the environment: Social Network Analysis in Environmental Management and Local Ecological Knowledge Studies
Salpeteur, M., L. Calvet-Mir, I. Diaz-Reviriego, and V. Reyes-García. 2017. Networking the environment: social network analysis in environmental management and local ecological knowledge studies. Ecology and Society 22(1):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08790-220141
Unravelling stakeholder participation under conditions of neoliberal biodiversity governance in Catalonia, Spain
The restructuring of biodiversity governance in Europe during the last two decades has been, inter alia, based on the argument that effective conservation hinges on consensual decision-making involving all relevant stakeholders. This has given rise to various network-based forms of governance and participatory arrangements in protected areas reinforcing the involvement of business and non-state actors, particularly through the creation of profita…
Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: University training for local Agroecological Dynamization
Geography (33 works) · Ecology (23 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Biology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Agriculture (16 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (11 works) · Environmental Science (10 works)