Towardsan 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 tointerdisciplinarity

     “Into the Woods” international conference: advancing interdisciplinarity

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Part1: Perception and management of ancient forests as a natural and culturalheritage

Chapter 1: Distinguishing the definition andmeaning of ancient woodland in England

Chapter 2: Managing Walloon ancient woodlands asheritage

Chapter 3: Ancient coppice woodlands in theCzech Republic

Chapter 4: How the ancient forest conceptemerged in the French media

Chapter 5: Mediterranean forest users andancient forests: appreciating nature as a social and welcoming place ratherthan wilderness

Part2: Investigating forest ancientness: advocating for interdisciplinarity

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

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

Chapter 8: Ancient forest and old-growth forestfrom 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 andarchaeological approach to understand timber uses and ancient forest managementin the southern French Alps over the last millennium

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

Part3: “At the edge of the forest”: other ways to think about ancient andold-growth forests

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

Chapter 13: Rejuvenating the elderly and agingthe youngsters: ancient management practices in continuously renewed native ashtree forests in the High Atlas of Morocco

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

Chapter 14: Root and branch: a communityarchaeology and palaeoecology approach to the investigation of a submergedforest at Pett Level, Sussex, UK

Conclusions- Reflections on interdisciplinarity in the social and natural sciences fromthe 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

 List of authors