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Post-Urban Life in the Italian Alps during a Pandemic
In the twentieth century, depopulation in the Italian Alps was the result of the vision of a mountain world as isolated and of the persistence of stereotypes such as that of the 'poor mountain dweller'.
Maria Anna Bertolino
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Naturally Occurring Asbestiform Minerals in Italian Western Alps and in Other Italian Sites [PDF]
ABSTRACT The natural occurrence of asbestos (NOA) in rocks and soil has been known for many years in several areas of the world, differently from the natural presence of asbestiform minerals. In Italy, the mapping of NOA is mandatory according to the 2001 and 2003 regulations.
Belluso E.[1 +5 more
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Panoramica degli studi francoprovenzali sui due versanti delle Alpi
This co-written contribution proposes an overview of Francoprovençal studies on both sides of the Alps. First, the history of the documentation of the Francoprovençal varieties on the Italian territory, in the Aosta Valley and in the Piedmontese valleys ...
Matteo Rivoira, Fabio Armand
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This article explores the ambivalent nature of «sustainability» in late-medieval Alpine communities, showing how communal statutes reveal a social rather than ecological logic behind environmental regulation. Through examples from the Western and Central
Riccardo Rao
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Cricotopus (Cricotopus) latellai sp. n. is described and diagnosed based on material comprising male and female pharate adults, pupal exuviae and larvae recently collected in some glacial streams in both the Italian and French Maritime Alps.
Joel Moubayed-Breil, Patrick Ashe
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book review: Marco Isaia, Mauro Paschetta, Enrico Lana, Paolo Pantini, Axel L. Schönhofer, Erhard Christian & Guido Bandino (2011): Aracnidi sotterranei delle Alpi Occidentali italiane/Subterranean Arachnids of the Western Italian Alps (Arachnida ...
Zaenker, Stefan
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Second homes in the Alpine Region
Second homes have grown quickly in numbers in the last decades and played an important role in the development of many municipalities in the Alpine Region. With an estimated number of 1’850’000, second homes account for more than 25% of the housing stock
Roger Sonderegger, Werner Bätzing
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What Can We Learn from the History of STS in Italy? A Few Hints for the Future
By recalling his own career as an historian of science and technology, the author sketches the history of Science and Technology Studies in Italy from their early steps in the 1970s and 1980s.
Giuliano Pancaldi
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Eurasian Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium passerinum, in the valleys of Cuneo province (Piedmont, SW Alps).
In the South-Western Italian Alps references on the presence and habitat selection of Eurasian Pigmy Owl, Glaucidium passerinum, are few and fragmented and they do not allow to delineate a continuous range with the other sections of the Alps.
Pierluigi Beraudo +2 more
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Negotiating the Mountains. Foreign Immigration and Cultural Change in the Italian Alps
Severely affected during the twentieth century by depopulation and neglect, the Alps also suffered an erosion of their cultural heritage. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, population has begun to grow in many areas, mainly due to ...
Andrea Membretti, Pier Paolo Viazzo
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