“I know a lot about medicinal plants. I read, I watch, and I search Background Hybrid knowledge systems are central to community negotiations of environmental, social, and epistemic pressures. In multilingual borderland areas, interactions between local ecological kno...

🌱 How do people learn about plants today? 🌿 Glad to share our new paper on hybrid knowledge systems and medicinal plant practices across a multilingual/multicultural borderland: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A recent paper, “Stakeholder Analysis for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study from the Living Lab, Schouwen-Duiveland, The Netherlands,” explores how local networks respond to drought and how the “Rings of Involvement” method helps visualise stakeholder dynamics.
👉 www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14...

🌿 Excited to introduce Plantasia!
Our first educational game from Locogioco (a Ca’ Foscari spin-off), inspired by fieldwork in the Polish–Lithuanian–Belarusian borderland.

With Dixit-style storytelling + memory mechanics, it invites players to learn about plants and their cultural uses.

Including fishers as equal partners in conservation isn’t only about biodiversity – it’s also about safeguarding cultural memory and lived knowledge of the Venice lagoon 🐠

📖 Our new open-access in Marine Policy:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

To Eat or Not to Eat: A Complex Nexus between Humans, Italian Law, and Cat Survival A history of foraging cats in Italy and its entanglement with the protection of animal rights.

#Caturday Read: "To Eat or Not to Eat: A Complex Nexus between Humans, Italian Law, and Cat Survival" by Matteo Sartori and Julia Prakofjewa

niche-canada.org/2023/10/05/t...

#envhist #animalhistory #italy

New paper out in Land: “Send Me a Pot for Polenta”: Biocultural Adaptation in Letters (1877–1894).
Rather than adapting, early settlers resisted the Brazilian environment, attempting to replicate Veneto’s agri-food practices verbatim.
Read more here: doi.org/10.3390/land...