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Contemporary Issues in Land Use Planning
In this chapter, laws and plans for the preservation of agricultural lands in Iran were expressed. For this purpose, electronic search of research background in the SID, Iran Doc and Sivilica was done. Results show that immediately after the Land Reform in Iran in 1971, Plans and laws including Agricultural Joint Stock Companies, Production Cooperatives Companies and so on have been impleme…
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Consuming Landscapes
For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman world. The view from the road is one of the main ways in which we experience our environments. These vistas are the result of deliberate historical forces, and humans have shaped them as they simultaneously sought to be transformed by them.
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Contested territories and international law :a comparative study of the Nagor…
This book considers the possibilities for resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in the context of comparative international law. The armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh has been on the peace and security agenda since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This volume draws parallels with a similar situation between Sweden and Finland over…
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Chapter The Portuguese Montado: A Complex System under Tension between Differ…
The Montado is a silvopastoral system and the dominant land use in Alentejo (Portugal). Its functionalities expand beyond agricultural and forestry production. It is a system where a low-density and heterogeneous tree cover is complemented with livestock grazing and fodder production, resulting in its recognition as a high-nature-value farming system. However, for it to be effectively preserved…
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Chapter The port of Neapolis: memories and traces of the coastal landscape in…
During the excavation for the construction of two new subway lines, which run from East to West along the city of Naples, traces and memories of the Greek-Roman port of Naples and the ancient Neapolitan coastal landscape emerged. The studies of the reconstruction of geoarchaeological prospecting campaigns clarified how the bay has been disappearing over the centuries. This phenomenon was caused…
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Chapter The Place of Inspiration of the Flemish Triptych by Rogier van der We…
One of the greatest masterpieces of Flemish art of global importance has been analyzed, through geological and geomorphological evidence, in order to identify the ‘hidden landscapes’ depicted within it. The conclusions of this study suggest that the views may be Sicilian. This fact is particularly important as it is believed that the masterpiece was imported into Sicily, but the history of …
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Chapter The Land Cover/Use Code of the new Istat Census cartography
ISTAT census layers, realized by ISTAT since 1991, are in update; this kind of digital cartography divides the entire national territory in very small enumeration areas to which are linked all the variables gathered during the census surveys. This layer, thanks to the several pieces of information related to each enumeration area, has a huge value for the statistical description of the Italian …
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Chapter The impact of vertical greening on local microclimate Preliminary re…
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Chapter The Hittite King as Administrator of the Land
In recent years archaeological investigation has made an important contribution for ascertaining the possible relationship between the center of the kingdom, namely the king and his capital city, and the regions at the core of the kingdom in different periods of Hittite history. The empire was not a monolithic entity but a complex web of interactions. In this frame the Hittite king emerges in h…
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Chapter The economic and environmental impact of large ships on the territory…
Cruise tourism is expanding everywhere, despite the pandemic; CLIA (2021) reports that, in 2020, the economic damage was around 77 billion dollars, but records a significant increase in travelers who aspire to join a cruise. Cruise ships and their economic impact have been the subject of research for many years and the data, which can be obtained from various sources, denote the importance of t…
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