Nineteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

I discuss the environmental changes and political ecology of mountain pastoralism in the north-western Slovenian Alps, i.e. how the local population perceives, shapes and appropriates the mountain environment and how they experience, imagine and cope with environmental and social changes, including (de)forestation, climate changes, new wildlife, but also the pressures of tourism. I specifically present the recently revived traditional forms of mountain pastoralism and cheese production and show how they adapt to perceived, imagined and experienced environmental changes.