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Plant conservation in a changing Mediterranean world
The Mediterranean is one of five climatic regions on the planet characterised by a prolonged summer drought, exceptional plant diversity and high rates of endemism. We provide a framework to link the ecology of plant species conservation in the context of rapid and extreme climate deregulation to a philosophical typology of temporal attitudes (i.e ...
John D. Thompson +3 more
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Wine tourism in Italy: New profiles, styles of consumption, ways of touring [PDF]
Italy has always been a wine country: it produces 20% of the world and 33% of the European wine production; in 2008 it has produced more wine grapes than France. More, Italy is also a country with an ancient tradition in tourism.
Maria Francesca Romano, Michela Natilli
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ABSTRACT The mainstreaming of sustainability standards in agrifood industries has often been accompanied by adverse distributional outcomes. While powerful lead firms in global value chains obtain reputational benefits and premiums, costs and risks are transferred to suppliers.
Juliane Lang
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SHARING CULTURE THROUGH TOURISM - DOURO VALLEY STORYING TELLING [PDF]
Nowadays one of the purposes of Portugal is identifying and exploring the art of living together. More and more sharing different cultures with storying telling is our main purpose.
Bonito, Álvaro, Carvalho, Ana Branca
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Designs for energy‐efficient wine cellars (ageing rooms): a review
The wine sector worldwide consumes a considerable amount of energy, with much of it used for cooling and ventilating cellars (ageing rooms). For this reason, the design of energy efficient cellars is increasingly gaining importance.
F. Arredondo-Ruiz +3 more
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Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir
ABSTRACT This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance.
Robert A. Kagan
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Rural Development and Wine Tourism in Southern Italy [PDF]
Tourism provides communities with an opportunity to display their region's distinct and unique cultural and natural assets while creating employment and diversifying the regional economy.
Gregorio, Donatella Di, Licari, Elena
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Positive Microbiology in the Movies
How ‘Positive Microbiology’ is portrayed in commercial movies and its potential as a tool for education and engaging general audiences to counteract germaphobia. Image done with freepik. ABSTRACT Microbes are essential for sustaining life in our planet.
Manuel Sánchez‐Angulo
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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ABSTRACT The quality of fine‐dining restaurant food is complex and presents information issues in customers' quality evaluation, configuring this good as a luxury and cultural good. We investigate the role of experts in influencing customers' evaluation and other stakeholders' characteristics in such a sector by analyzing a dataset of top Italian chefs
Francesco Angelini +2 more
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