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Neogeografia. Per un nuovo immaginario terrestre
2019
Che senso ha fare geografia oggi, in un’epoca in cui il globo è stato esplorato palmo a palmo e le mappe sono disegnate da satelliti e software? Che importanza ha inventarsi un’immagine della Terra in mezzo ai guasti del clima e alla dissoluzione ambientale? Che cosa possono insegnare alla geografia contemporanea un racconto di mare in latino del X secolo, le canzoni di gesta antico francesi, i diari di bordo del capitano Cartier, la Liguria di Montale, l’India di Moravia e Pasolini, la costa bretone di Kenneth White? Neogeografia è un’esplorazione estrema che mira a un duplice cambio di paradigma: ripensare l’epistemologia della geografia e analizzare i testi come altrettanti laboratori di…
The Potential Geosite of the “Libeccio Antico” Quarries: a Sedimentological and Stratigraphic Characterisation of Ornamental Stone from Mt Cocuccio, …
2018
The Custonaci marble district of western Sicily is known for the production of a valuable ornamental stone that has been, and nowadays is exploited due to its suitable properties and aesthetic qualities. The “Libeccio Antico” was, among the “marbles”, the most appreciated ornamental stone during the Baroque Age (the XVII–XVIII centuries), due to its strong polychrome contrasts from ivory to yellow, green or dark red. This polychrome pattern is the result of dissolution processes that involved an Upper Triassic peritidal limestone. The varicoloured sediments in paleocavities, collapse breccias, paleosols and neptunian dykes that occur in the “Libeccio Antico” represent the peculiar character…
The spatial dimension of the French private rental markets: Evidence from microgeographic data in 2015
2021
International audience; This article draws on data collected by local rental observatories in 12 French urban units in 2015 to analyze the spatial dimension of hedonic rental prices in the private rental market through (i) the spatial heterogeneity between urban units and (ii) the wide variety of contextual and locational characteristics (socio-economic, environmental (dis)amenity, and accessibility) and flexible specifications to capture their potential non-linear influence on rent. Based on a joint test of equality of coefficients across all urban units, we find that hedonic prices differ for 75% of the characteristics, thereby justifying a detailed analysis of heterogeneity. Lyon, Nice, …
Ecosystem Services at the Archipelago Sea Biosphere Reserve in Finland: A Visitor Perspective
2019
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization&rsquo
High rates of short-term dynamics of forest ecosystem services
2021
Currently, the main tools for assessing and managing ecosystem services at large scales are maps providing snapshots of their potential supply. However, many ecosystems change over short timescales; thus, such maps soon become inaccurate. Here we show high rates of short-term dynamics of three key forest ecosystem services: wood production, bilberry production and topsoil carbon storage. Almost 85% of the coldspots and 65% of the hotspots for these services had changed into a different state over a ten-year period. Wood production showed higher rates of short-term dynamics than bilberry production and carbon storage. The high rates of dynamics mean that static snapshot ecosystem service map…
High boreal forest multifunctionality requires continuous cover forestry as a dominant management
2021
Intensive extraction of forest resources lowers biodiversity and endangers the functioning of forest ecosystems. As such, alternative management regimes have emerged, aspiring to promote forest biodiversity and nature protection in managed forests. Among them, continuous cover forestry, (i.e. selective logging), has received considerable attention and is being promoted by some researchers and NGOs. Yet, the full consequences of banning clear-cuts (i.e. rotation forestry) and replacing it entirely with continuous cover forest remains uncertain. We explore how restricting forest management alternatives (either rotation forestry or continuous cover forestry) will affect landscape-scale forest …
Analyse toponymique de l’Horta de Valence (Espagne). Intégration des approches classique et critique pour la reconstruction et la valorisation de son…
2018
La comarca de l’Horta de València, la més poblada del País Valencià, rep aquest nom perquè fins a principis del segle XX la seua economia es basava en la seua riquíssima horta (‘terra de regadiu’). A partir de l’estudi dels topònims dels seus nuclis urbans (on l’horta ha estat eradicada) es reconstitueix virtualment el paisatge cultural hortícola perdut en les últimes dècades per a donar a conèixer a la ciutadania i així conscienciar-la del valor patrimonial d’aquest paisatge cultural de l’aigua desaparegut, i també per a revalorar el que sobreviu d’horta encara. Es porta a terme una anàlisi toponímica dels nuclis habitats de la comarca: d’una banda, seguint la metodologia clàssica de recol…
Geobotanical approach to detect land-use change of a Mediterranean landscape: a case study in Central-Western Sicily
2018
A landscape is a palimpsest of the interactions between human activities and ecological dynamics. In an interdisciplinary perspective of dialogue between the ‘Two Cultures’ (Natural Sciences and Humanities), a study of a rural area has been carried out through a reading of plant ecosystems as signs of human impact. The purpose of this paper—as part of the project ‘Harvesting Memories’: Ecology and landscape archaeology of Castro/Giardinallo Valley and Mt. Barrau district (Corleone, Palermo, Sicily)—is to analyse the formative-processes of a Sicilian rural landscape and its changes in the last century. A key element in the reconstruction of the formation of the present landscape is the serie…
In-between sprawl and neo-rurality. Sparse settlements and the evolution of socio-demographic local context in a Mediterranean region
2018
Dispersed urbanization during the last half century has transformed metropolitan regions into well-connected, low-density residential areas. However, this kind of urbanization has changed irreversibly the traditional rural landscape around cities, leading to a new definition of &lsquo