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Sostenibilità ambientale e azioni per la resilienza climatica / Environmemntal sustainability and climate resilience adaptations
No full text"Vale di vinhedos": landscape and culturali heritage. Wood architetcture created by italian emigrants in the south of Brasil
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Design and technologies for integration of archeological resources in environmental design. The Strategic Plan of Marsala.
No full textCultural heritage has a strategic role for the progress of territories and the conservation of local identities. The concept of sustainable development leads to consider the cultural heritage as local resource, rich, first of all, of different social values. From this point of view, the preservation of the cultural heritage is not a cost for the society, but a driving force for the local development. Often the action strategies are fragmentary and do not assure an enhancement that should be economically sustainable and compatible with the peculiarity of the resources, and, more in general, of the territory.
The enhancement should be structured as a systemic frame to sustain culture as a resource for the competitiveness.
The right models of governance and management are fundamental for the knowledge, the enhancement and, the management of the heritage. A strategic and integrated planning as system to support actions and projects. Working in a perspective of management and integration of the territorial resources, it is essential to reflect on the role of the different actors involved. From the normative point of view, the activities of cultural enhancement can be managed directly or indirectly, involving also the private sector and social enterprises, implying a new concept of cultural good as surplus value for the community that owns it, because the cultural goods are a potential instrument of development for the economic industries and for the promotional activities of the territory. In this way, it is possible to create new organization forms, as network and cultural systems, in which the cooperation of the actors encourages compactness of management, combined investments, sharing of resources and human capital, and involvement for the construction of the local identity.
This concept has been developed by the research group “Governance, Design and Valorisation for the Built Environment” of Politecnico di Milano with the PhD Course “Design and technologies for cultural heritage” for the strategic planning of Marsala (Sicily, Italy). An activity funded by the Municipality with regional funds and carried out involving important consultants (Centro Studi PIM, Avventura Urbana, Eures Group and Itinera Lab).
The archaeological excellences of Marsala are a potential and catalytic element, and therefore they are considered as an instrument for a local development of the local system, which is structured both for a new urban, social and environmental settlement and for the improvement of the quality of the residential system, with the restoration of the real estate heritage. The Strategic Plan of Marsala has permitted to bring back the complexity of the local context - given by the variety and the articulation of the cultural heritage, the actors and the process of constitution of the local identity and the attribution of value to the resources of the territory - in a “meta-planning” approach structured for requirements, performances and strategies. In this way, paying attention to the needs of the local community and the stakeholders, the archaeological resources have become the lever to manage a “cascading” process of enhancement open to the widest area of the territory of Marsala, with the aim to research synergies and nets of relationships between subjects and resources.
The testing of the process of enhancement of the archaeological heritage started with the Strategic Plan, leading to important results:
- in the short term, the development of the sites already usable nowadays and a higher awareness of the local community for the preservation of archaeological resources;
- in the medium term, the archaeological park of Capo Boeo as element of connection between archaeological goods spread in the territory, and the cultural and environmental events that the city offers;
- in the long term, a “strong” candidacy for the recognition of the system “Mothia and Lilibeo and the Phoenician civilization in Italy” as Unesco world heritage site
Identity of rural landscape. Traditional constructions and hydraulic works in Cilento.
No full textThe configuration of the rural landscape of the Cilento area reflects the state of crisis in agriculture in the industrialized countries which is, in these years, to face the negative phase derived from the growing increase in labour costs and declining consumer prices, and the introduction of products imported from developing countries. To meet this contingency there is a tendency to widespread outsourcing and the industrialization of agriculture that led to an upheaval in many parts of the traditional aspect of the agricultural landscape.
The natural configuration of the land has been shaped by man for thousands of years with moderate or, sometimes, complex works of adaptation.
Was fulfilled, thus, a balanced process of composition of the functional aspects that returned an harmonic configuration of the territory.
The specialized production that is related to criteria for company management and forced by the market logic, the tendency to shorter rotations of crop plants, the increase in the average size of the plots worked, necessarily require a production efficiency through mechanization and a different logistic for the plants. In addition, the plant of greenhouses and protected crops in general, the replacement of the surface drainage network with underground systems, the water collection tanks for irrigation and all the appropriate facilities to new cropping systems specialist, as well as having changed the functional structure of the territory, assume great importance and impact in the usual scenarios.
The exploitation of water resources in rural purposes is one of the most ancient activities, the management of water resources has always been a work of vital importance for the survival and development of rural life, by developing and by perfecting techniques it has left a sign in the way of raising, in the type of crops and in the organization of rural settlements.
In order to envisage the monitoring tools to effect a rehabilitation of degraded agricultural landscape, we assume an integrated view of environmental protection, planning and enhancement of the landscape that is geared towards a specialized ownership of the territory, closer to the recognition of the natural elements and of all phenomena, generated by the interaction between man and environment, which are why the current configuration
Urban Coastal Landscape. The fragile buffer areas of Bacoli, Palermo and Termoli to switch the decay into Development
No full textThe urban coastal landscape is now at the center of new attention, as a
result of cultural, social, economic, and real estate evolution. A new approach is
actually clearly expressed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)
missions, which identify as priorities those actions for mitigating hydrogeological
risks, safeguardinggreenareasandbiodiversity,ensuringthehealthofcitizens,and
attracting investments. Starting from the interference between anthropic pressure
and the need to preserve the biotic and abiotic environment, this work is aimed
at highlighting the impact of the built environment on natural ecosystems in the
urban coastal landscape. This study will be conducted on three sample areas in
southern Italy, representative of Mediterranean biodiversity. Referring to these
cases, a study will be carried out, considering both factors of anthropic pressure
and those relating to ecosystems and their degree of naturality
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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