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A Comparison of Machine-Learning Methods to Select Socioeconomic Indicators in Cultural Landscapes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Cultural landscapes are regarded to be complex socioecological systems that originated as a result of the interaction between humanity and nature across time. Cultural landscapes present complex-system properties, including nonlinear dynamics among their
Aguilera Aguilera, Pedro   +2 more
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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-
Alves, Susana
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Tourism and Cultural Landscapes in Southern China’s Highlands

open access: yesVia@, 2020
Cultural landscapes are combined work of man and nature. In 1992, the World Heritage Convention adopted the cultural landscape in the World Heritage List. In Asia, the ongoing urbanization and rural-urban migration have threatened the continuing cultural
Zhe Wang, Nelson Graburn
doaj   +1 more source

The Sacrality of Space, Time, and Water: The Biggest Assembly of Kumbha Melā 2025, India

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India
The greatest of the religious events, the Kumbha Melā, is a riverside festival held every twelve years, rotating among Prayāgraj (formerly Allahabad), Nasik, Ujjain, and Haridvar.
Rana P.B. Singh
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Earth mortars and earth-lime renders

open access: yesConservar Património, 2008
Earth surface coatings play a decorative architectural role, apart from their function as wall protection. In Portuguese vernacular architecture, earth mortars were usually applied on stone masonry, while earth renders and plasters were used on indoors ...
Maria Fernandes
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Flood risk and planning of recreational territories in the Akmena-Danė river basin of western Lithuania / Potvynių rizika ir rekreacinių teritorijų planavimas vakarų Lietuvos Akmenos–Danės upės baseine

open access: yesJournal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2012
Intensive summer rain showers in 2005 and 2007 caused floods in most rivers of Lithuania. A large majority of the worst problems occurred in the basins of the Akmena-Danė and Minija rivers that are adjacent to the seashore.
Vytautas Dubra, Jonas Abromas
doaj   +1 more source

Renewing Criminalized and Hegemonic Cultural Landscapes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Mafia's long historical pedigree in Mezzogiorno, Southern Italy, has empowered the Mafioso as a notorious, uncontested, and hegemonic figure. The counter-cultural resistance against the mafiosi culture began to be institutionalized in the early 1990s.
A Brisman   +31 more
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Vine landscapes in Crimea: evolution, problems, prospects

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2018
The conditions and factors of development of the vine landscapes in Crimea and their evolution are considered for the ancient, medieval, imperial, Soviet (first and second halves of the 20th century), and post-Soviet periods.
Pozachenyuk Katerina, Yakovenko Irina
doaj   +1 more source

Imagining the Multilayered Cultural Landscape: A Template from the Columbia Plateau of North America

open access: yesLand, 2022
Cultural landscapes encompass a diversity of manifestations of the interaction between humankind and the natural environment occurring in both space and time.
Paul R. Nickens
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NDVI Identification and Survey of a Roman Road in the Northern Spanish Province of Álava

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2019
The Iter 34 (Antonine Itinerary XXXIV) is the name of the Roman road that crosses the province of Álava from west to east. Since no specific path was officially recognized before our study, the remains of the road did not benefit from heritage ...
Juan José Fuldain González   +1 more
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