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The Resilience of the Valley of Temples Among Natural Calamities and Social Disasters
2017
Preservation of the cultural heritage, intended as common patrimony, is a cultural achievement that interritories like Sicily, which has often suffered the lack of legality, is the result of a difficult process ofimplementation. Cultural heritage is not ruined exclusively by natural calamities: damages caused bysocial and cultural disasters may at times be even more devastating.The archeological park of Agrigento, born in 1947 after a natural disaster (a landslide in 1944), hidesa history of a half century of battles between the illegal land use and legislative measures to protect acultural heritage recognized worldwide (registered in the WHL in 1997).After fifty years of attacks against th…
The Resilience of the Valley of Temples among natural calamities and social disasters
2017
Preservation of the cultural heritage, intended as common patrimony, is a cultural achievement that in territories like Sicily, which has often suffered the lack of legality, is the result of a difficult process of implementation. Cultural heritage is not ruined exclusively by natural calamities: damages caused by social and cultural disasters may at times be even more devastating. The archeological park of Agrigento, born in 1947 after a natural disaster (a landslide in 1944), hides a history of a half century of battles between illegal land use and legislative measures to protect a cultural heritage recognized worldwide. After fifty years of attacks against the archaeological park, a slow…
Contribution to the knowledge of fungal diversity in the archaeological park of Selinunte (S.-W. Sicily)
2012
The Archaelogical Park of Selinunte (S.-W.- Sicily) is included in the SIC (Sites of Community Interest) named “Dunal system Capo Granitola, Porto Palo e Foce del Belice” (code ITA010011). It includes a dunal system that is steadily towards the inland with sandy substrates which tend to characterize little evolved soils on silico-arenaceous matrix with alkaline pH. The climate of the site belong to the thermo-mediterranean belt (annual average temperature around 18 ° C), and upper dry ombrotype (average annual rainfall of 500 mm) [1]. The biotope also includes wetlands, Pinus halepensis Miller and Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh reforestations, evergreen sclerophyllous vegetation with apreva…
The Resilience of the Valley of Temples Among Natural Calamities and Social Disaster
2017
Preservation of the cultural heritage, intended as common patrimony, is a cultural achievement that in territories like Sicily, which has often suffered the lack of legality, is the result of a difficult process of implementation. Cultural heritage is not ruined exclusively by natural calamities: damages caused by social and cultural disasters may at times be even more devastating. The archeological park of Agrigento, born in 1947 after a natural disaster (a landslide in 1944), hides a history of a half century of battles between the illegal land use and legislative measures to protect a cultural heritage recognized worldwide (registered in the WHL in 1997). After fifty years of attacks aga…