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Biografie di paesaggi alpini: produzioni di quota e pascoli alberati di larice (Val di Fiemme e Valle Argentina)
No full textZone umide, alberi da foraggio e antiche praterie: per la caratterizzazione del patrimonio storico-ambientale della transumanza
No full textFor centuries, transhumance has been a socio-economic system capable of shaping mountain landscapes and environments. The paper presents two case studies aimed at identifying the historical-ecological traces of seasonal breeding systems to characterize the environmental legacy of transhumance. The proposed approach enables the evaluation of the positive externalities of past pastoral practices in terms of vegetation resources activation (leaf-fodder trees, ancient grasslands) and water resources maintaining (springs, ponds, small lakes, peat-bogs, etc.)
On the ecology of ancient and recent woodlands: the role of historical approach
No full textThis chapter presents several Italian case studies to interpret and discuss the concept of ancient forests by means of methods and sources used by historical ecology. The historical approach adopted by the Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology and History (LASA) of the University of Genoa involves the use of multiple sources (textual, geographic, archaeological, ethnologic, oral, environmental), a regressive method and strong spatial and social contextualization. In fact, the methods of British historical ecology have been developed by reworking and comparing contents of British local history with those proposed by the Italian microhistory. The sedimentary and observational sources generally related to woodland environmental archaeology are now more generally produced and analysed as part of an archaeology of environmental resources. The strengths and weaknesses of this approach is illustrated through two selected case studies concerning the history of Mediterranean multi-use systems of woodland resources (agrosilvopastoral). The first case study pertains to a mountain area (Upper Trebbia-Aveto Basin) while the second is on the coast of western Liguria (Merula Valley, north-west Italy
Une approche historique et archéologique pour l’étude des systèmes de gestion des ressources environnementales: expériences en Ligurie (Italie)
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The historical and environmental characterization of local foodways: “applied historical geography” case studies in Liguria (NW Italy)
No full textThis contribution deals with the study of the complexity and stratification of landscapes and environmental resources. We propose a multidisciplinary historical-environmental approach which roots in the Italian micro-history tradition, the British historical ecology and local history. As environmental resources are intended as social products, defined by local knowledge, practices and productions, the focus is on social and environmental dynamics which have shaped the material features of the landscapes. Following this line, the documentation (historical and environmental characterization) of local production allows to overcome the theoretical opposition between environment and society.
Methodologically, the research is based on a local scale regressive approach and on a wide range of different sources: textual, iconographic, oral, bio-stratigraphic and observational.
These heterogeneous sources and the dialogue between different disciplines allow a better understanding of historical and environmental processes acting at a local scale in the food production. Applied to the study of local food production systems, or “foodways”, the method allow understanding how they activated environmental resources and reshaped “individual landscapes”. As case study, the paper deals with some experiences of “applied historical geography” in local foodways performed in Liguria and Piedmont by the Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology and History (LASA) of the University of Genoa and by the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo
The archaeobotanical approach to the identification of ancient beech woodlands in the Ligurian Apennines (NW-Italy)
No full textstoria postglaciale del faggio nel'lAppennino Ligure, sulla base di analisi polliniche di sedimenti di zone umid
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