Tibor Hartel is Associate Professor in the Environmental Science Department at Sapientia University of Transylvania, Romania, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Conservation Biology: Europe Section. His research focuses on rural landscapes from Eastern Europe. He studies wood-pastures in Romania and has been involved in a number of management and educational activities targeting wood-pastures and old trees.

Tobias Plieninger is Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is interested in the study of the driving forces, processes and patterns of changes in human-shaped landscapes. His research integrates natural and social science approaches to landscape ecology and conservation.

Part 1: Introduction 1. The Social and Ecological Dimensions of Wood-pastures 2. Diversity, Threats and Conservation of European Wood-pastures 3. Wood-pastures as Examples of European High Nature Value Landscapes - Functions and Differentiations According to Farming Part 2: History and Change 4. The Origins and History of Medieval Wood-pastures 5. Recent Dynamics of Evergreen Oak Wood-pastures in South-Western Iberia 5.1 Wood-pasture Profile: Monroy, Spain 6. Ecological Patterns and Processes at Various Spatio-temporal Scales in Wood-pastures of the Swiss Jura Mountains and Adaptation to Climate Change 6.1. Wood-pasture Profile: Musella, Italy Part 3: Biodiversity and Ecology 7. Plant and Vegetation Diversity in European Wood-pastures 7.1 Wood-pasture Profile: Saaremaa, Estonia 8. Wood-pastures as Reservoirs for Invertebrates 8.1. Wood-pasture Profile: Hatfield Forest, England 9. Grazing as a Tool for Wood-pasture Restoration and Management 9.1 Wood-pasture Profile: East Vättern Scarp, Sweden Part 4: Socio-cultural Values 10. Social-cultural Values of Oak Wood-pastures and Transhumance in Greece 10.1 Wood-pasture Profile: Western Lesvos, Greece 11. The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Managing Wood-pastures 11.1 Wood-pasture Profile: Csokonyavisonta, Hungary 12. Mapping Ancient and other Trees of Special Interest: UK citizens' Contribution to World Tree Heritage Part 5: Governance Institutions 13. Wood-pasture Management in Southern Transylvania (Romania): from Communal to Where?13.1 Wood-pasture Profile: Breite, Romania 14. Common Management of Wood-pastures and Sustainable Regional Development in the Southern Black Forest (Germany) 14.1 Wood-pasture Profile: Southern Black Forest, Germany 15. Institutional Arrangements of Wood-pasture Management: Past and Present (UK) Part 6: Synthesis 16. Wood-pastures and the Greening of the Common Agricultural Policy [...]opean Wood-pastures in Transition: Lessons for Science, Conservation and Policy Development in High Nature Value Landscapes