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Community-based Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) practices have been adopted in the Tigray region since 1991 for restoration of the degraded landscape.
Solomon Hishe +2 more
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Optically-stimulated luminescence profiling and dating of historic agricultural terraces in Catalonia (Spain) [PDF]
Dating agricultural terraces is a notoriously difficult problem for archaeologists. The frequent occurrence of residual material in terrace soils and the potential for post-depositional disturbance mean that conventional artefactual and lab-based dating ...
Bolòs, Jordi +3 more
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Terraced landscapes are widely applied in many mountainous regions around the world as a result of the necessity to practice subsistence agriculture.
Guido Paliaga +6 more
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This article focuses on three research questions: 1) Were terraced landscapes built in the analytical or creative phase of the first human intervention in a place?
Azman Momirski, Lucija
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Geomorphic signal of active faulting at the northern edge of Lut Block. Insights on the kinematic scenario of Central Iran [PDF]
Recent works documented Neogene to Quaternary dextral strike-slip tectonics along the Kuh-e-Sarhangi and Kuh-e-Faghan intraplate strike-slip faults at the northern edge of the Lut Block of Central Iran, previously thought to be dominated by sinistral ...
Claudio, Faccenna +6 more
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Tourism Imaginary and Landscape at Heritage Site: A Case in Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, China
The relationship between tourism and landscape has been extensively studied, but a conceptual framework to study cultural relationships between tourism and landscape is not specified in the literature. On the basis of the theory of social imaginary, this
Zhe Wang, Lawal Marafa
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Landscape-cognitive trail "To the mountain Vysoky Verkh" (National Park "Skole Beskids")
The landscape diversity of the cognitive nature trail "To the mountain Vysoky Verkh" is characterized within the Skole Beskids National Nature Park, and nine landscape and cognitive stops are proposed that represent typical and unique landscape tracts ...
O. O. Burianyk, A. V. Melnyk
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Tourism and Cultural Landscapes in Southern China’s Highlands
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
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Cinque Terre, one of the most important Italian cultural landscapes, has not been spared from depopulation and agricultural abandonment processes, that involved many rural areas in Europe, as a consequence of socio-economic transformations that occurred ...
Antonio Santoro +5 more
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Transformation of the Jeruzalem Hills cultural landscape with modern vineyard terraces
The terraced landscape in the Jeruzalem Hills is the result of specific socioeconomic conditions under communism, and now its appearance is drastically changing for the second time in the last fifty years.
Primož Pipan, Žiga Kokalj
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