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LandRural landscape character assessment (LCA) is significant for identifying and understanding rural landscapes and maintaining the cultural connotations of the rural vernacular.
Yunong Wu
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SustainabilityTraditional villages contain rich natural and humanistic information, and exploring the spatial distribution characteristics and cultural landscape zoning of traditional villages can provide scientific support for their centralized and continuous protection and renewal and sustainable development. In this study, 326 traditional villages in the northern
Yalong Mao +4 more
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Newmarket Open Space Conservation Plan [PDF]
, 2007 Open spaces – forests, fields, wetlands, floodplains, salt marshes, rivers and streams – are integral to our community. These lands and waters that thread through our neighborhoods are a scenic reminder of our history, when people made their living by ...
Snyder, Ellen
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Chapter Integrated Coastal Zone Management of Natura 2000 and cultural heritage sites in Calabrian coastal landscape (Southern Italy) [PDF]
, 2020 This study shows the link connecting natural and cultural goods in the coastal landscape of Calabria (Southern Italy), considering seaboard and human impact risk conditions. In fact, Calabria has 58 Natura 2000 sites located on seaboard areas within a length of 300 meters from coast and 63 cultural heritage sites of which 42.9% coincides with the ...
Cantasano, Nicola +3 more
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How to protect estuaries in Durham, NH [PDF]
, 2018 Estuaries are some of the most diverse and fragile ecosystems on our planet. All over the nation, along the coastal states, half of the wetlands, about 55 million acres, have been destroyed (“Habitat Loss Nationwide,” n.d.).
Dutton, Emily S
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Magnetizing Neighborhoods Through Amateur Arts Performance [PDF]
, 2008 Outlines the Arts and Cultural Indicators in Community Building Project's findings on how amateur, informal arts activity improves a community's desirability, social integration, and quality of life as measured by population, test scores, and crime ...
D. Garth Taylor
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, 2011 The land trust community and governments at all levels have become married to conservation easements as their land conservation tool of choice. The numbers speak for themselves: as of the date of this writing, there were reportedly 1,700 land trusts that
Olmsted, James L.
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Livestock farming systems and local development: A review of the multiple dimensions of "Territory" in livestock science [PDF]
, 2010 A review of the international literature was carried out, in order to describe how researchers study links between livestock farming and local development (i.e. 'territory'). We highlight three different sets of approaches: the first focused on relations
Dedieu, Benoît +2 more
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Recreational-Geomorphological Zoning of the North-Eastern Caucasus
Russian Journal of Earth SciencesThe article presents the results of zoning of the territory of the North-Eastern Caucasus based on the analysis of geomorphological features and their influence on the organization of recreation.
Zaburaeva Khava +2 more
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The Rebirth of the Neighborhood [PDF]
, 2013 This essay argues that new urban residents primarily seek a type of community properly called a neighborhood. “Neighborhood” refers to a legible, pedestrian-scale area that has an identity apart from the corporate and bureaucratic structures that ...
Byrne, J. Peter
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