Search results for "World Heritage"
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The (controversial) role of the UNESCO WHL Management Plans in promoting sustainable tourism development
2012
This paper investigates the relationship between tourism and planning in UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) sites. It concentrates on the relation between Management Plans (MPs) and other (local and regional) planning instruments and policies able to influence the promotion of sustainable and responsible development. This is explored through an examination of two important tourist locations in Sicily: Agrigento (the Valley of the Temples) and the Aeolian Islands, which have both been recognized as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The analysis of these case studies will point out the challenge of integrating different management and planning regimes. The paper shows how supranational policies o…
Searching for solutions to the conflict over Europe’s oldest forest
2019
The Białowieża Forest World Heritage site is one of the last remaining primeval forests in lowland Europe and is a refuge for European Bison (Bison bonasus), the largest land mammal on the continent (Table 1).
Development of a HMD for Virtual Acoustics. Application in a World Heritage (UNESCO) Building from the Valencian Civil Gothic
2016
The aim of this paper is to show the development of an immersive application in a historic visual and acoustic space. The “Llotja de la Seda” (“Silk Exchange Building”) is a late Valencian Gothic style civil building in Valencia (Spain), built between 1482 and 1548. The UNESCO considered it as a World Heritage Site in 1996 since “the site is of outstanding universal value as it is a wholly exceptional example of a secular building in late Gothic style, which illustrates the power and wealth of one of the great Mediterranean mercantile cities”.
Piano di Gestione UNESCO Isole EOLIE
2008
Nel Piano di gestione del sito UNESCO Isole Eolie sono definiti i criteri e le modalità per realizzare contemporaneamente l’obiettivo della tutela di un bene e uno sviluppo locale sostenibile. Il Piano contiene una mappatura dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali e Naturalistici, descrivendo un sistema territorio sotto il profilo economico-ambientale che contiene: - L’inquadramento storico, economico e antropologico del sito, l’uso finora fatto, i fattori di incidenza sui beni ambientali e culturali; - L’inquadramento attuale del sito, attraverso un’analisi degli strumenti legislativi e amministrativi e della loro conformità; - L’analisi dei processi produttivi critici e le relative interazioni co…
Real-time PCR detection of Ochroconis lascauxensis involved in the formation of black stains in the Lascaux Cave, France
2012
A real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay was developed to detect and quantify Ochroconis lascauxensis in the Lascaux Cave in France. This fungus is the principal causal agent of the black stains threatening the Paleolithic paintings of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. The black stains outbreak could not be stopped in spite of using intensive biocide treatments. A sensitive and time-saving protocol is needed for determining the extent of the colonization. Sets of primers that target the ITS and RPB2 regions were designed and evaluated for specificity against O. lascauxensis. Genomic DNA extracted from five species of Ochroconis and 13 other fungal species frequently isolated from ca…
Ensuring the Conservative Process: The Roman Walls of Lugo Maintenance Plan
2016
In 2000 the walls of Lugo were added to the World Heritage List. In the Spanish scenario of UNESCO Sites this is the only one provided with a maintenance plan, which properly defines times for inspections and interventions, tools for the collection and management of data, human and financial resources. This plan has begun to ensure a conservation process which guarantees that this ancient artefact is used efficiently and safely over time. The walls are fully accessible and because of the dominant ramparts are used by citizens as a beloved and frequently used city park. This article aims to describe the strategy and the conservation process put in place on the Roman walls to preserve and kee…
Beetles (Coleoptera) in the Tarnowskie Góry-Bytom Subterranean System
2017
Badania gatunków chrząszczy (Coleoptera), które przeprowadzono w jednym z największych sztucznych podziemnych systemów w Europie (Podziemia TarnogórskoBytomskie). W wyniku rocznych badań stwierdzono 3 gatunki chrząszczy: Choleva glauca, Pterostichus niger, Quedius mesomelinus. Ze względu na brak okazów w strefie przy wejściu należy założyć, że te populacje są odizolowane od pozostałych na powierzchni. Poszczególne gatunki występują tylko w określonych porach roku. Autorzy sugeruje, może to być początek troglobiontycznego trybu życia.
La Reggia di Venaria Reale in Italy and Palacio Real de Aranjuez in Spain: history, restoration and significance, comparative study between Two Royal…
2017
La investigación relaciona dos sitios reales, La Reggia di Venaria Reale en Italia y el Palacio Real de Aranjuez en España, confrontando su desarrollo histórico y arquitectónico, las obras de restauración llevadas a cabo, los criterios para su inclusión en la Lista de Patrimonio Mundial y su uso hoy en día como museos. El estudio comparativo muestra cómo ambos palacios se usaban inicialmente como residencias de caza en lugares con abundancia de agua y pesca. Además, los dos están ubicados cerca de las capitales políticas de su tiempo; esto es, Turín y Madrid. El hecho que el mismo arquitecto – Filippo Juvarra estuviera presente en ambas residencias reales contribuye a las similitudes, y en …
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…
Influences on plant nutritional variation and their potential effects on hominin diet selection
2018
The selection of foods in any environment depends on a variety of factors, including the nutrient availability and antifeedant loads in the component habitats. How these nutritional properties vary and covary in time and space is not well known, particularly among wild plant species. We collected plant samples from several habitats within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa, and measured their macronutrient and antifeedant properties in order to explore how season, habitat, plant type, and plant organ affected the quality of these potential plant foods. Our results have implications for early hominin use of similar habitats.