Thanasis Kizos

University of the Aegean · Department of Geography

Landscape change and its drivers have been the focus of a growing body of literature in the past years. Our objective is to present different approaches to studying and understanding landscape change. We sketch the way in which different approaches and existing conceptual models are related to spatial scales and epistemological aims, and discuss co...

The management of agroecosystems affects biodiversity at all levels from genetic to food-web complexity. Low-input farming systems support higher levels of genetic, species and habitat diversity than high-input, industrial ones. In Greece, as in other Mediterranean countries, the role of traditional farming practices has been underlined in studies...

Over the past 25 years, the study of driving forces of landscape change has developed into a central theme in land change science by contributing to theory development, promoting the analysis of causation of change and gaining insights into how landscape development could be steered into a societally more desirable direction. Based on this progress...

Landscape products link to low-input practices and traditional ecological knowledge, and have multiple functions supporting human well-being and sustainability. Here we explore seven landscape products worldwide to identify these multiple functions in the context of food commodification and landscape sustainability. We show that a landscape product...

Farming in Europe has been the scene of several important socio-economic and environmental developments and crises throughout the last century. Therefore, an understanding of the historical driving forces of farm change helps identifying potentials for navigating future pathways of agricultural development. However, long-term driving forces have so...

Οι διαδικτυακές χαρτογραφικές εφαρμογές έχουν αλλάξει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο αλληλοεπιδρούμε με τα χωρικά δεδομένα και έχουν πολλές χρήσεις σε διαφορετικούς τομείς. Η επιστήμη των πολιτών (citizen science) έχει διευκολυνθεί σημαντικά από την ενσωμάτωση τέτοιων τεχνολογιών, δίνοντας τη δυνατότητα σε ενδιαφερόμενους κατοίκους και επισκέπτες να συμμετ...

The olive fruit fly ( Bactrocera oleae ) (Rossi) is the most economically important insect pest in many olive cultivation areas worldwide. However, levels of infestation by this pest show remarkable variability, even among orchards in close proximity to one another. While the factors driving this variability remain uncertain, there is evidence that...

Pest management practices interact with many species and have an impact on the ecology and the economy of the area. In this paper, we examine the population dynamics of the olive fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi), Diptera: Tephritidae, on Samos Island, Greece, observing the spatial and temporal changes of the pest along an altitude associated with area...

Geography is a discipline with a profound interdisciplinary character focusing on studying the complex interactions between nature and society. Geography can advance the level of knowledge and awareness and provide important contributions to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. This book explores some of these issues, while als...

The management of natural enemies of perennial tree crops and especially insects is performed with pesticides, which can negatively impact the quality of products, natural resources and biodiversity as well as the health of producers and consumers. An emerging trend focuses alternatively on the use of less or no chemicals and the management of crop...

The management of natural enemies of perennial tree crops and especially insects, is usually performed with pesticides, which can negatively impact the quality of products, natural resources, and biodiversity, as well as the health of producers and consumers. An emerging trend focuses alternatively on the use of less or no chemicals and the managem...

The management of pests is an area where different objectives meet: the need to ensure that agricultural production covers the needs of a growing population, the need to ensure safety and low levels of health risks for people and the need to conserve wildlife and biodiversity are not always compatible. In this chapter, we present precision farming...

It is with great pleasure that we launch a call for papers for a special issue on Agritourism. Agritourism combines elements of agriculture and tourism, and agritourism services typically include farm tours, participation in farm activities, farm stays, on-site experiences, including dining and food preparation, and direct sales of farm products....

Agroforestry systems and agroforestry practices have been important and valued parts of the agricultural and forestry heritage of Europe for many centuries. Policies for agricultural production and agricultural space in the last decades have contributed towards a separation between “forest” and “agriculture”. In this chapter, some European Union (E...

Farming systems in marginal or less favored areas of Europe have faced a multitude of challenges as a response to so-called "mega-trends". A typical response has been land abandonment. The focus of this paper is on the farming systems of the Greek islands of Lesvos and Lemnos. These neighboring islands are geographically very similar but differ gre...

Το τοπίο αποτελεί ένα ιδιαίτερο και πολύπλευρο πεδίο έρευνας, με ευρεία ποικιλία ορισμών και χρήσεων του, που αντικατοπτρίζει το γεγονός ότι διαχρονικά έχει υπάρξει αντικείμενο ενδιαφέροντος και έρευνας για πολλαπλές επιστήμες, τόσο φυσικές, όσο και κοινωνικές και ανθρωπιστικές. Τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες, πολλές ερευνητικές προσεγγίσεις κινούνται πρ...

Τα συστήματα γεωργίας ακριβείας προβάλλονται ως η επόμενη επανάσταση στην αγροτική παραγωγή, η οποία θα προσφέρει περισσότερα εργαλεία και δεδομένα στα χέρια των παραγωγών όσον αφορά στην επίδραση του χώρου και αβιοτικών παραμέτρων στην παραγωγή και στη διαχείριση εχθρών και ασθενειών. Από την άλλη όμως απαιτεί κεφάλαια και γνώσεις ή δυνατότητα πρό...

Many islands face accessibility problems that burden both the cost and the time of sea transport. In Greece, with more than 100 inhabited islands, the Transport Equivalent Threshold (TET) was recently introduced to support passengers (subsidizing ticket costs) and businesses (subsidizing transportation costs). The purpose of this study is to explor...

Landscape products link to low-input practices and traditional ecological knowledge, and have multiple functions supporting human well-being and sustainability. Here we explore seven landscape products worldwide to identify these multiple functions in the context of food commodification and landscape sustainability. We show that a landscape product...

The management of natural enemies of perennial tree crops and especially insects is performed with pesticides, which can negatively impact the quality of products, natural resources and biodiversity as well as the health of producers and consumers. An emerging trend focuses alternatively on the use of less or no chemicals and the management of crop...

It has been shown that the COVID-19 pandemic affected some agricultural systems more than others, and even within geographic regions, not all farms were affected to the same extent. To build resilience of agricultural systems to future shocks, it is key to understand which farms were affected and why. In this study, we examined farmers' perceived r...

An island is a piece of land surrounded by water-perhaps, the plainest geographical language to describe its concept. Nowadays, is the "island" a central structural unit of scientific analysis or is it still a relatively neglected research theme under a continuous (re)definition process to enhance the visibility of this geographical entity as a "pl...

The financial crisis of 2008 was and still is a subject of extensive research in the academic literature. It negatively impacted economic and social conditions, especially in southern European countries, and highlighted the structural weaknesses of both the euro area and the European Union. Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, and Spain pursued fiscal adjustm...

The 2008/2009 global economic recession and the Covid-19 pandemic fuelled a heap of social and economic problems, including growing youth unemployment and inactivity. Amidst this pressing conjuncture, female youngsters living in economically deprived regions have been affected the most. The paper in hand studies the changing analogies between young...

Η καταπολέμηση των εχθρών μόνιμων καλλιεργειών και ιδιαίτερα εντόμων, γίνεται σήμερα με τη χρήση φυτοπροστατευτικών ουσιών που μπορεί να έχουν αρνητικές επιπτώσεις τόσο στην ποιότητα των παραγόμενων προϊόντων, όσο και στο περιβάλλον, τη βιοποικιλότητα και την υγεία των παραγωγών και καταναλωτών. Αναδύεται όμως ταυτόχρονα, μια τάση που προσανατολίζε...

Olive growing is an important economic activity for Greece, which is the third-largest olive oil-producing country in the world. The most dangerous enemy of the olives is the olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (OLF). For OLF control, a national program is implemented based on bait sprays, the frequency, and intensity of which are determined, among ot...

The Mediterranean Basin is a global biodiversity hotspot, but formal conservation approaches have not been wholly effective to halt species and ecosystem losses in this world region. There is wide agreement that maintaining traditional and diverse land-use systems is key to conserving biodiversity across the Mediterranean region. Biocultural approa...

Η χρήση συστημάτων γεωγραφικών πληροφοριών για τη συστηματική καταγραφή των πρακτικών αυτών, βοηθά ώστε να εκτιμηθούν και να χαρακτηριστούν όσον αφορά στην παραγωγή αλλά και το κατά πόσο συμβάλλουν στην διατήρηση ή μη της βιοποικιλότητας. Στην εργασία αυτή, παρουσιάζεται ένα σύστημα καταγραφής καλλιεργητικών πρακτικών, που βασίζεται σε διαδικτυακή...

Most grazing lands in Mediterranean ecosystems that support extensive sheep farming systems are characterized by unfavorable edapho-climatic conditions, especially in semi-arid areas. Often, though, their use is far from sustainable, causing erosion and ecosystem degradation impacts. In this paper, we explore the use, productivity, and flora divers...

This chapter investigates changes in land use intensity in a crop-livestock farming system on Lemnos Island through the combination of land use/land cover (LULC) types extracted from black and white (B&W) aerial images, statistics, and qualitative data. Combining quantitative and qualitative data, different insights of land use and landscape change...

In 2018 the Greek Government initiated the "Islands' Transport Equivalent" (ITE), a Policy aiming at mitigating the inequalities the residents and companies of islands face due to the increased transport cost that creates the conditions of "double insularity". ITE is a system for mitigating the inequalities, the residents and companies of the islan...

Σκοπός του παρόντος κειμένου είναι η παρουσίαση ενός συστήματος αξιολόγησης των επιπτώσεων των στρατηγικών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης με εδαφική διάσταση με τη χρήση της προσέγγισης Sustainability Impact Assessment. Η Ελλάδα μετά από μακροχρόνια περίοδο λιτότητας, ύφεσης και δημοσιονομικής προσαρμογής, θα πρέπει να υιοθετήσει ένα καινούργιο παραγωγικό κ...

In this paper, we seek to shed light on issues related to satisfaction with government institutions and personal quality of life from living on an island, teasing out common themes to determine whether there is a shared identity among islanders, regardless of geography, level of development and size, as it relates to governance. We explore these qu...

Η καταπολέμηση των εχθρών μόνιμων καλλιεργειών και ιδιαίτερα εντόμων, γίνεται σήμερα συνήθως με τη χρήση φυτοπροστατευτικών που μπορεί να έχουν αρνητικές επιπτώσεις στην ποιότητα των προϊόντων και στο περιβάλλον και τη βιοποικιλότητα. Αναδύεται μια τάση προς χρήση λιγότερων ή καθόλου φυτοπροστατευτικών και καταπολέμηση ή έλεγχο των εχθρών των καλλι...

This paper maps the visual impact of mining activities on terrestrial and marine landscapes of the Cyclades islands, Greece, an island complex in the Aegean Sea of particular natural and cultural heritage. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mining activities developed on the islands, many of which are abandoned today. Some of the remaining...

Το βιβλίο αφορά στην δημοσίευση των παρουσιάσεων και των συμπερασμάτων - προτάσεων από τα πρακτικά των τριών διαδικτυακών επιστημονικών (03-18-21/3/2021) ημερίδων του Πράσινου Ινστιτούτου για τις παραγωγικές αναδασώσεις, οι οποίες μπορούν να δημιουργήσουν ταυτόχρονα θέσεις εργασίας με αναζωογόνηση των Αγροδασικών συστημάτων της Ελλάδας και της Ευρώ...

Η Γεωγραφία των προϊόντων Προστατευόμενης Γεωγραφικής Ένδειξης (ΠΓΕ) στην Ευρώπη

Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges and troughs used in Europe, frequently associated with communal open-field farming and strip cultivation. Strip farming spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages but appears to have only slightly penetrated southern Europe. In Greece, no areas under a ridge-and-furrow system were previously...

Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges and troughs used in Europe, frequently associated with communal open-field farming and strip cultivation. Strip farming spread throughout Europe in the Middle Ages but appears to have only slightly penetrated southern Europe. In Greece, no areas under a ridge-and-furrow system were previously...

Agroforestry and small-scale traditional farming systems as well as multi- functional forest landscapes survived in many rural areas in Europe (both in mountains and islands) that escaped the large scale agricultural transformation that has been supported by the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). How can we build a more resilient rural economy in...

Η διάκριση του χώρου σε κατηγορίες και η δημιουργία τυπολογιών είναι ένα διαχρονικό ζητούμενο του χωρικού σχεδιασμού. Οι πρώτες προσπάθειες σχετίζονται με τη διάκριση μεταξύ αστικών και αγροτικών περιοχών: τι είναι οι πόλεις, που σταματούν και που ξεκινούν οι αγροτικές περιοχές και η «εξοχή», η ύπαιθρος όπως επικράτησε να ονομάζονται όλοι οι χώροι...

We present here a data set generated from a multinational survey on opinions of university community members on the prospect of consuming food grown with human urine as fertiliser and about their urine recycling perceptions in general. The data set comprises answers from 3,763 university community members (students, faculty/researchers, and staff)...

Source-separating sanitation systems offer the possibility of recycling nutrients present in wastewater as crop fertilisers. Thereby, they can reduce agriculture’s impacts on global sources, sinks, and cycles for nitrogen and phosphorous, as well as their associated environmental costs. However, it has been broadly assumed that people would be relu...

This paper deals with the effect of agricultural land-use practices on biodiversity. The case study is an extensive arable farming system on Limnos, a Greek island in Norther Aegean. The particular farming system combines arable crops grown for food or feed with grazing lands and sheep husbandry. We present the design of a system that (a) records f...

The agricultural landscape of Mediterranean islands has transformed radically over the last 60 years. The results differ, due to the interplay of macro, national, and local factors for each setting. In this study, some of these trajectories of change are examined for the island of Lemnos in Greece, using remote sensing and oral history techniques....

This research report is produced within the framework of the YOUTHShare project A Place for Youth in Mediterranean EEA: Resilient and Sharing Economies for NEETs and more specifically, within the context of Work Package 1 (WP1) Stimulate Trans-locally: A transnational Research Network for the study of Youth Employment policies in the Mediterranean...

This research report is produced in the framework of the YOUTHShare project “A Place for Youth in Mediterranean EEA: Resilient and Sharing Economies for NEETs” and more specifically in the context of Work Package 1 (WP1) “Stimulate Trans-locally: A transnational Research Network for the study of Youth Employment policies in the Mediterranean Europe...

This research deals with the spatial distribution of the PGI products in Europe and thereinafter with the characterization of the production areas at the LAU 2 level according to the territorial typology of the Degree of Urbanization, which consists of the Cities, the Towns and Suburbs and the Rural areas, thereafter according to the areas that are...

Περίληψη Στο κεφάλαιο αυτό παρουσιάζεται μια σύντομη επισκόπηση των διαφορετικών χρήσεων της βελανιδιάς στον Ελλαδικό χώρο με βάση γραπτές πηγές, με έμφαση στην αρχαιότητα και μια μικρή μεταφορά σε προβιομηχανικές κοινωνίες του 16ου ως και του 20ου αιώνα. Η βασική έμφαση είναι στα Ομηρικά έπη με χρήση και Ελληνικής και ξενόγλωσσης βιβλιογραφία που...

Global transportation of plants and animals is increasingly causing new pest invasions. Α recent example is Drosophila suzuki Matsumura (Diptera: Drosophilidae), one major pest of thin exterior fruit in Greece and other European countries. In this paper, some preliminary findings of population fluctuation of male D. suzuki in the orchards of Almopi...

Η καταπολέμηση του δάκου της ελιάς Bactrocera oleae Rossi (Diptera: Tephritidae), αποτελεί μια πολύπλοκη και δαπανηρή διαδικασία, που περιλαμβάνει διάφορα στάδια, εκ των οποίων το πρώτο αφορά τον έλεγχο του δακοπληθυσμού. Η σημασία της ορθής παρακολούθησης του δακοπληθυσμού είναι η πιο σημαντική, γιατί από τα δεδομένα που συλλέγονται, αποφασίζεται...

Email: g.Katsikogiannis@samos.gr , a.kizos@aegean.gr Περίληψη-Μεθοδολογία Ο δάκος της ελιάς, Bactrocera oleae Rossi (Diptera: Tephritidae) αποτελεί τον σοβαρότερο εχθρό της ελαιοκαλλιέργειας, λόγω των οικονομικών επιπτώσεων από τις ζημιές που προκαλεί στην ελαιοπαραγωγή κάθε έτος. Το πρόγραμμα συλλογικής καταπολέμησης του δάκου, για να είναι αποτελ...

Ο αγροτουρισμός και η σχέση του με την τοπική ανάπτυξη λαμβάνεται συνήθως ως κάτι δεδομένο. Ο αγροτουρισμός κυρίως στην Ελλάδα δεν έχει ιδιαίτερα μεγάλη ιστορία όμως συναντώνται αρκετές και σημαντικές εννοιολογικές μεταβολές. Πρόκειται ουσιαστικά για μία πρακτική ανάπτυξης της υπαίθρου που αφορά στη λεγόμενη «διεύρυνση», όπου τα αγροτικά νοικοκυριά...

This paper engages with the issue of recent labour transformations in the context of the EU South. Α weak economic environment, stagnation, and dismantled labour markets of the past decades, have all been factors indirectly leading to the emergence of alternatives. Social and solidarity economies – promoted by public policies – have been establishe...

During the past decade, and in response to the persistent world-wide economic recession, several labor market actors have directed their interest on value creating alternatives and on consumption modes that dispute dominant ways of production. Technological evolution along with high diffusion of networking applications has facilitated the establish...

Accessibility is an important determinant of socio-economic development at all spatial levels because it critically affects the operations and success of economic activities. Measures of accessibility are frequently used to support development policy-making and spatial planning. The spatial sciences provide several quantitative approaches to assess...

An essential prerequisite for ensuring the territorial continuity of a state is to ensure uninterrupted access for people and goods to all its regions through transport facilities of a generally accepted level, in terms of quality of services and financial cost. Transport is a key component for the development of the islands, given that the islands...

The lack of understanding and definitional inconsistencies regarding agritourism and the importance of cooperation in sustaining this kind of tourism are underlined in the literature. This study analyzes the perceptions of agritourism and cooperation from actors in the sector using a plurality of methods, including unsupervised (a) text mining and...

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The article reports a study of the collection of 20 plant species for agricultural, medicinal, cosmetic, nutritional, technological,and veterinary uses, which are traditionally harvested on Mount Olympus on Lesvos, Greece. The aims of the study were:(1) to summarize the uses of the selected species; (2) to describe the profiles of collectors and the...

This study analyzes the perceptions of agritourism units owners and stakeholders on (a) agritourism compared to rural tourism and (b) cooperation of different types of actors in the sector. Furthermore, it assesses the type and the degree of cooperation, in other words it investigates the characteristics of informal agritourism networks within dest...

Το παρόν άρθρο διερευνά τα χαρακτηριστικά των άτυπων δικτύων αγροτουρισμού εντός δύο προορισμών με τη βοήθεια της ανάλυσης κοινωνικών δικτύων και μέσω της μέτρησης των μακρο και μεσο δομικών πτυχών τους. Ο κύριος στόχος είναι να επεξηγηθούν και να συζητηθούν ποσοτικές και ποιοτικές πτυχές αυτών των δικτύων με επιλεγμένους φορείς που συνδέονται (άμε...

Multi-stakeholder perceptions of landscape changes are increasingly recognized as essential inputs to discussions on future landscape developments, particularly when addressing the future of European rural areas experiencing agricultural abandonment. This research presents a case exploration of abandonment of olive plantations in east Lesvos, Greec...

Urban green spaces make a significant contribution to the social and ecological environment in cities, and the decisions of green space managers have direct impacts at both local and city scales. However most studies have focussed on public green spaces, despite privately managed gardens collectively forming a large proportion of urban green. The a...

The abilities of analyzing and perceiving of the landscape are paramount skills of a geographer. In the context of the corresponding course of the Geography Department of the University of the Aegean, we conducted field activities using a mobile learning system that we have developed and which is the intersection of two emerging learning practices:...

This paper attempts to fill a gap in the international literature by assessing the impacts of agritourism at local level combining different aspects. The primary data were obtained through personal in‐depth interviews with the use of semi‐structured questionnaires. Two destinations in Greece were selected due to their diverse characteristics: an is...

Fire events are an annual phenomenon in Greece with damages and even casualties, making their understanding and management important. In this paper, we present fire events provided by NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System and place them along a number of spatial types defined by relief and land cover classes. Results demonstrate that...