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Soil and water conservation effects on soil properties in the Middle Silluh Valley, northern Ethiopia

open access: yesInternational Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

Optically-stimulated luminescence profiling and dating of historic agricultural terraces in Catalonia (Spain) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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
core   +3 more sources

Terraced Landscapes as NBSs for Geo-Hydrological Hazard Mitigation: Towards a Methodology for Debris and Soil Volume Estimations through a LiDAR Survey

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Adapted slopes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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
core   +1 more source

Geomorphic signal of active faulting at the northern edge of Lut Block. Insights on the kinematic scenario of Central Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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
core   +1 more source

Tourism Imaginary and Landscape at Heritage Site: A Case in Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, China

open access: yesLand, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Landscape-cognitive trail "To the mountain Vysoky Verkh" (National Park "Skole Beskids")

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
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
doaj   +3 more sources

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

Forest Area Changes in Cinque Terre National Park in the Last 80 Years. Consequences on Landslides and Forest Fire Risks

open access: yesLand, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Transformation of the Jeruzalem Hills cultural landscape with modern vineyard terraces

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

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