Rainwater Harvesting system (RWHs) can be considered as an alternative water resource in the era of climate crisis. This research aims to study effectiveness a RWHs for domestic non-potable use and demand community Mediterranean site (Chios island, Greece). A balance model is applied simulate behavior rainwater tank calculate daily savings. The analysis correlates capacity, catchment area population. operation collection has been calculated seven years. In order assess investment risk...

This article delves into the enduring self-governing nature of a traditional irrigation system in rural community Greece through lens social–ecological (SES) framework. The aim is to analyze variables and interactions that have sustained this community-based governance structure over century. study underscores critical role social capital, where networks effective communication facilitate self-governance management common pool resource. findings reveal how actors coordinate physical capital...

This case study in the municipality of Acharnes, Greece, examines a local initiative that transforms schoolyards into community gardens, involving teachers, pupils, parents, grandparents, and neighbors. The research explores participants’ perceptions these transformations, with focus on interactions non-human beings such as pollinators. Data were collected using questionnaire completed by 85 participants, including parents guardians pupils school staff. analysis was conducted statistical...

Water’s role in shaping human societies, economies, and cultures extends beyond its status as a natural resource. This water quality, the entanglement of social natural, constructs waterscape. paper discusses how community fountain replica, rural Greece, constructed by different agents with divergent motivations objective, form waterscape, expressing socionature water. Perceptions, imaginaries, values, connotations are considered making (dis)continuity Community practices, cultural meanings,...

The Anthropocene is defined as the most recent geologic time period of earth, in which human activities influence atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes.This term encompasses two different but equally important concepts: Nature Human.The dominance natural physical sciences subject climate change historically documented.In contrast, involvement social interdisciplinary dialogue developed over last decades were launched by economic analysis.Social also...