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Presentazione del Libro I lidi sulla Costa del Delta del Po
No full textPresentazione del Libro "I lidi sulla Costa del Delta del Po" pubblicato da Adriana Galvani presso la Biblioteca Ariostea di Ferrara, all'interno di cicli programmati di presentazioni ufficiali
New EU policy for coastal areas
No full textViene presa in analisi e discussa la politica marittima della UE.
“Europe is surrounded by many islands and by four seas: the Mediterranean, the Baltic, the North Sea and the Black Sea; and by two oceans: the Atlantic and the Arctic. This Continent is a peninsula with thousands of kilometres of coast - longer
than that of other large land masses such as the United States or the Russian Federation. This geographical reality means that over two thirds of the Union’s borders are coastal and that the maritime spaces under the jurisdiction of its Member States are larger than their terrestrial territory. Through its outermost regions, in
addition to the Atlantic Ocean, Europe is also present in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Their maritime stakes are many and concern the EU as a whole.” P3
“As the EU seeks to revitalise its economy, it is important to recognise the economic potential of her maritime dimension. Between 3 and 5% of Europe’s Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) is estimated to be generated by marine based industries and services, without including the value of raw materials, such as oil, gas or fish. The maritime
regions account for over 40% of GDP.
The evolution of the Marche Region coastal zone and the climate change
No full textCoastal Evolution in Marche Region and regional Planning.
The map and the sections show clearly oscilaltion of the ancient shorelines around the present day position of the shoreline. The situation changes going northwards in presence of the Emilia sandy littoral and the Venice lagoon with the Po plain on the back
Can We Escape From The Economic Crisis Through Intangible Benefits?
No full textPoster with images describing Immaterial -cultural tourism attraction
Human interventions and alterations of the geomorphological characteristics in parts of the coastal area in the Ionian coasts (Ipiros-Greece)
No full textAccording to data results from in situ observations and the interpretation of aerial photography of the past, it arises that in general therms the state of the coasts in the study area is fragile, while there is a predominant tendency of regression of the coast line towards the inland
Sea management and the claim to jurisdictional zone: the Chinese Situation
No full textThe sea management requires a special attention to the relationship between the legal and geographic dimensions. The authority over the sea adjacent to the shoreline (coastline) of different countries has always been a difficult problem to face.
In the past centuries, the jurisdictional authority over the sea corresponded to a 3 nautical miles wide stretch in front of the shoreline of the interested country. It corresponded to the area that could be protected by guns situated on the shoreline.
In 1609 Grotins (NL), following the trend to explore new commercial lines, suggested the idea of “Mare libero” (freedom of the seas).
Up to the first half of the 20th Century, the utilisation of sea water depended on unilateral agreements among neighbouring countries.
After the end of the Second World War, a more exact and severe regulation concerning the sea control became necessary. This mainly depended on new economic needs and on a new possible utilisation of sea: delimitation and jurisdictional use of zones devoted to fishing and mining activities (oil field research), and of free passages devoted, like sea roads, to the international navigation lines.
From that time a series of international conferences followed, which aimed to promote a general law of the Sea (LOS) accepted by all the countries. At UN Assembly meeting in 1994, 85 countries accepted a version of the LOS identifying 4 different sea zones: 1) territorial sea waters up to 12 nautical miles from the shoreline; 2) the contiguous sea zone up to 24 n. m. from the shoreline; 3) the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) up to 200 n. m. from the shoreline and devoted to fishery or mining activities. In this wide area the passage of navigation lines is permitted only if “inoffensive” (no submarines or battle-cruisers); 4) international waters considered of common interest for the entire world (like the Antarctic territories) and not completely free
Punti di forza e di debolezza del Giappone nella compagine economico-politica globale
No full textMolto è stato scritto su questo paese, divenuto modello di una originale forma di industrializzazione, per cui ci limiteremo ad accennare alle problematiche più attuali e contingenti.
Per una serie di circostanze, date dalla congiuntura attuale e dalle posizioni di forza e debolezza del paese, la ricerca verte prevalentemente su questioni di carattere politico-economico, ma tant’è, questo è il Giappone!
Introduzione
Per anni il Giappone ha rappresentato il modello di un’economia forte, dilagante in tutto il mondo, capace di penetrare nel cuore delle grandi potenze mondiali.
Lo sviluppo forse troppo rapido, l’elevata tecnologia e l’eccesso di liquidità hanno creato una bolla che è scoppiata nel 1998, trascinando con sé altri paesi asiatici.
Solo da ora si stanno registrando segni di ripresa, i quali tuttavia devono far fronte ad una accresciuta competitività nella stessa area asiatica, sia da parte di paesi un tempo colonizzati, come la Corea e la Cina, ma anche da parte di paesi che, rimasti in letargo od occupati in lunghe guerre, non sembravano precedentemente porre minacce.
Ora quegli stessi paesi sono divenuti emuli del Giappone, ne seguono le traiettorie di sviluppo e si appropriano delle sue innovazioni tecniche per porre sul mercato prodotti similari a prezzi inferiori, chiudendo le vie d’uscita alle sue esportazioni.
Per di più, l’apertura della Cina, che ha costituito una sorpresa per tutto il mondo, ravvisa per il Giappone una minaccia seria, stante la crescente pervasività del suo mercato e considerate le preesistenti inimicizie che risalgono a lunga data
Images are coloured words in a multi-coloured world
No full textImages are coloured words in a multi-coloured world
Adriana Galvani
University of Bologna
[email protected]
Abstract
All disciplines use images, but more than others, geography does. Some aspects of geography
need more icons, in fact teaching tourism offers many opportunities for using images. Images
should be not only presented but analysed and discussed, because normally they disclose and
hide messages and meanings. Students know images since childhood at home through
television, but usually parents don’t teach how to interpret them, because they didn’t learn
that either. Teachers need to know how to deal with images. For being able to teach, they
should know semiotic and cinema techniques; they could be considered competent when they
are able to produce movies by themselves and when students are also proficient in practising
these techniques; in other words to be able to speak with words and without words, especially
in a multicultural world where words constitute a barrier for intercultural communication. A
case study is presented here.
Teaching tourism at the University of Bologna
Forward
Throughout my career I have thought that movies were not useful tools for teaching. However
media has become more remarkable every day, particularly if we sustain the idea of a
“pansemiotic” culture (Knoblauch, 2001: 4). In fact as stated by Gozzi, “as the number of
radios and televisions increase in a given high-context culture, people will pay less attention
to each other and more attention to the media (1992: 60). Media are of a ubiquitous nature in
our lives, especially in cross-cultural studies, so it seems necessary to examine their role in the
“communicative paradigm” (Knoblauch, ibid) which our brain and our lives are inserted in,
while culture can be considered as the construction of contexts by means of communicative
actions.
We must use media in teaching several types of languages, because we know there are various
types of communication. I n fact even silence is a form of communication, so that it could
have a meaning: “like a zero in mathematics, it is an absence with a function” (Braithwaite,
1990: 321).
Media communication should be mediated by parents from childhood, but these too are artless
respect to the requirements of the emergent technology, and surely they never have had any
form of acculturation in this direction. As a consequence, the role of school results is
enhanced, since adapting to socio-cultural changes requires knowledge - acquiring that
knowledge requires communication (Smith, 1992: 214).
Personal experiences
I have learned, during an Erasmus visit, that movies are much utilized in the UK, due to the
number of immigrants with many difficulties in speaking English or with a low level of
understanding or knowledge. Inter-acculturation is in fact not easy.
“It goes without saying that every border crossing involves some need for
adjustment and acculturation. Just as visitors often find the need to adopt the
manners and customs of their host country, so do texts (and things – we add)
(Cohen and Roeh, 1992: 23).
It is sure that there is a growing trend among scholars to focus on and to study the “universal”
nature of media contents and the “globalization”, because the media markets try to sell
products in enlarged markets, creating the lines of a desired “post-Babel” hypothesis (Cohen
and Roeh, cit.: 32) or a simple “shared biosphere” (Smith, 1992: 223). In the two last decades
the same is also true of Italy, as it became a country of immigration and now we have the
same issues that English schools have had.
Movies are useful in teaching geography, because they illustrate the geography of our real
world. It is important to pay attention even regarding films narrating the past history, because
eventually they are too much elaborated or “modernized”. It is easier to teach geography
through images, but it is necessary to understand and to let ..
Comparative observations of the temporal geomorphological evolution of coastal zones in Greece and Northeastern Italy
No full textThe erosion phenomena - regression of extended parts of the coastal line, are a common element for both Greece as well as for Northeastern Italy and are seen even in areas where in the past there was a strong tendency of the coastline to move forward.
The common factor for this environmental destabilisation is the uncontrolled and unplanned human inerventions and most importantly the intensive exploitation of teh natural resources and the irrational economic exploitation of the coastal area and of the uphill ouflow basins. The present work, using the method of comparative observation attempts to define the individual causes which have led to the environmental destabilisation of the coastal parts under study,which are located in the outfalls of the rivers Arachthos (Western Greece) and Nestos (Northern Greece) and also in upper Adriatic Coasts (Italy)
Crowded Deserts
No full textCliamte Change, Forests destruction, Desertification are changing our environment and fertile lands becomes deserts.
A new concept of desert is proposed: one plenty of people and buildings, but without plants
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