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Terraced landscapes as protected cultural heritage sites

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2017
This article presents the current state of protection of terraced landscapes as an important type of cultural landscape, both globally and in Slovenia. The UNESCO World Heritage List, the Satoyama Initiative list, and the Slovenian Register of Immovable ...
Drago Kladnik   +2 more
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Stone-walled terraces restoration: conserving biodiversity and promoting economic functions of farmlands in Lebanon

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, 2022
Dry stone-walled terraces are peculiar features of Mediterranean farmland, representing typical examples of social-ecological systems combining ecological functionality and ecosystem services provision. In the Shouf Biosphere Reserve (Lebanon) a program
Alessio Martinoli   +8 more
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Terraces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Terraces rolled, harrowed, or disced down ready for seeding to pasture plants. Space between the terraces not yet disced out. The Terraces form a series of close-spaced dams to hold the water instead of running it offhttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu ...

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Climatically-controlled river terraces in eastern Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the tectonically stable rivers of eastern Australia, changes in response to sediment supply and flow regime are likely driven by both regional climatic (allogenic) factors and intrinsic (autogenic) geomorphic controls. Contentious debate has ensued as
Daley, James   +5 more
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First chronological constraints for the high terraces of the upper ebro catchment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The Cenozoic sedimentary basins in the Iberian Peninsula show a change from long-term basin infill to incision, a transition that indicates a period of major drainage reorganization that culminated in the throughflow of the networks to the Atlantic and ...
Duval, M   +3 more
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The morphology of fractal nano-objects in crystals of A2VB3VI [PDF]

open access: yesTekhnologiya i Konstruirovanie v Elektronnoi Apparature, 2011
On interlayer surfaces of crystals of Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 as a result of self-organisation are formed nano formations of following types: the pyramidal inclusions, parallel plates and the fragments similar Koch fractal surface.
Aliyeva A. P.   +2 more
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Methodology and Significance of PTAP’s Analysis of Agricultural Terraces in Petra’s Northern Hinterlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
1:00pm-3:00pmUndergraduateIn August 2019, Petra Terraces Archaeological Project (PTAP) conducted archaeological survey and test-pitting to study terracing systems in lower Wadi Silaysil, an agricultural zone in the rural hinterlands north of the ancient ...
Ingersoll, Jenna N
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Older Is Not Necessarily Better: Decolonizing Ifugao History through the Archaeology of the Rice Terraces

open access: yesLand
This study examines the intersection of archaeological data and community narratives in interpreting the Ifugao Rice Terraces in the Philippines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Long regarded as 2000-year-old symbols of an uncolonized cultural past, recent
Stephen B. Acabado, Marlon M. Martin
doaj   +1 more source

Landscape Change in Mediterranean Farmlands: Impacts of Land Abandonment on Cultivation Terraces in Portofino (Italy) and Lesvos (Greece)

open access: yesJournal of Landscape Ecology, 2014
The Mediterranean landscape has been rapidly changing over the past decades. Many regions saw a population decline, which resulted in changing land use, abandonment of marginal lands and colonisation by shrubs and tree species.
Sluis Theo Van Der   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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