Search results for "territory"

showing 10 items of 132 documents

Renewable energies, business models and local growth

2018

Abstract Energy is one of the driving factors of the world economy: energy consumption is closely linked to quality of life and environmental impact. Reducing the use of fossil fuels, curtailing greenhouse gas emissions, and cutting energy dependence from traditional energy producing countries are the cornerstones of European policies for safe, competitive, sustainable, and renewable energy. In addition, the pressing need to provide new and diversified opportunities for supplementary income for the agricultural sector has fueled the desire to engage rural areas in this process. Biogas, derived from the anaerobic digestion of biomass, is one of the renewable energy sources that has been very…

0301 basic medicineNatural resource economics020209 energyGeography Planning and Development02 engineering and technologyGrowthManagement Monitoring Policy and Law03 medical and health sciencesBiogasBioenergySettore AGR/01 - Economia Ed Estimo Rurale0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringTerritoryNature and Landscape ConservationDriving factorsbusiness.industry030111 toxicologyFossil fuelInternal rate of returnAgricultureForestryEnergy consumptionRenewable energyGreenhouse gasRenewable resourceBusiness
researchProduct

Ethnobotanical uses of wild taxa as galactagogues in Sicily (Italy)

2018

<p>Breastfeeding furnishes optimal nutrition, immune support, and a multitude of health benefits to mothers and newborns. Since ancient times plants have been employed as galactagogues in the folk medicine of many human cultures. In Sicily, a region with great floristic diversity in the Mediterranean area, where a conspicuous pool of species is traditionally used for food and aromatic, cosmetic, handicraft, agricultural, forestry, and medicinal purposes, some people recognize the galactagogue properties of some spontaneous plants.</p><p>The goal of this study was to identify wild plants with galactagogue properties and vegetable-food remedies traditionally used by women du…

0301 basic medicinebreastfeedingethnobotanical investigationsBreastfeedingPlant ScienceFloristicsSettore BIO/01 - Botanica Generale03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineHandicraftlcsh:BotanyMadonie territoryphytoestrogensTraditional medicinebiologybusiness.industrySettore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematicagalactagogue plantsgalactagogue plantGalactagogueAsteraceaebiology.organism_classificationlcsh:QK1-989Ethnobotanical investigation030104 developmental biologyGeographyTaxonAgriculture030220 oncology & carcinogenesisEthnobotanySettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataPhytoestrogenbusinessActa Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae
researchProduct

Las voces del interior rural valenciano: recursos naturales y resistencias al desarrollo

2020

[EN] This paper shows the results of two territorial diagnoses for employment and local development carried out in two rural regions of the province of Valencia. These diagnostics showed that these territories have abundant natural resources, but that lack of competent actors to dynamize them properly; either because they lack the means to do so (access to sources of financing, transport or basic infrastructure), or because they are not trained for it (aging population with lack of training), or because they do not have enough initiative (installed in a comfort zone).

10.- Reducir las desigualdades entre países y dentro de ellosTerritorial intelligenceGeography Planning and DevelopmentInteligencia territorialDesarrollo local010501 environmental sciencesEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)01 natural sciences0502 economics and businessRuralGE1-350Territory0105 earth and related environmental sciencesEarth-Surface ProcessesValencian CommunityGeography (General)05 social sciencesLocal developmentTerritorioCOMERCIALIZACION E INVESTIGACION DE MERCADOSECONOMIA SOCIOLOGIA Y POLITICA AGRARIAUrban StudiesEnvironmental sciencesG1-922Comunidad Valenciana050212 sport leisure & tourismBoletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles
researchProduct

Thermomineral waters of Greece: geochemical characterization

2020

75 °C). In terms of pH most results vary from 5.5 to 823 °C) ii) warm (23 40 °C) iii) thermal (40 75 °C) and iv) hyperthermal (&gtfew springs show either very low pH (&lt10) proposing serpentinization processes. Regarding TDS concentrations collected waters can be subdivided into low salinity (up to 1.5 g/L) brackish (up to 20 g/L) and saline (up to 43 g/L). The medium high salinities can be justified by mixing with sea water and/or strong waterrock interaction processes. Isotope composition of O and H ranges from 12.7 to +2.7 ‰ SMOW and from 91 to +12 ‰ SMOW respectively and is generally comprised between the Global Meteoric Water Line and the East Mediterranean Meteoric Water Line. Only few water samples show a positive shift for δ18O possibly related to high temperature waterrock interaction processes. Carbon dioxide (18 997000 μmol/mol) or N2 (1100 989000 μmol/mol) or CH4 (&ltMany geothermal areas of Greece are located in regions affected by Miocene or Quaternary volcanism and in continental basins characterised by elevated heat flow. Moreover the majority of them is found along the coast as well as in islands of the Aegean Sea and thus thermal water is often brackish to saline due to marine intrusion into costal aquifer. In the present study almost 300 thermal and cold mineral water samples were collected along the Hellenic territory with their physicochemical parameters (temperature pH electrical conductivity and Eh) and the amount of bicarbonates (titration with 0.1N HCl) being determined in situ. Additionally gases found either in free or dissolved phase were sampled. Both water and gas samples were analysed at the INGVPa laboratories for major ions (Ion Chromatography) silica (Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry) chemical composition of free and dissolved gases (Gas Chromatography) water isotopes (O and H) and carbon and helium isotopes of free and dissolved gases (Mass Spectrometry). The temperature of the investigated waters ranges from 6.5 to 98°C pH from 1.96 to 11.98 whilst Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) from 0.06 to 43 g/L. Based on the temperature parameter waters can be divided into four groups: i) cold (&lt0.5 913000 μmol/mol) are the prevailing gas species found in the studied sites. The δ13CCO2 values ranged from 20.1 to +8.5 ‰ whilst the isotope ratio of He from 0.21 to 6.71 R/RA.4) suggesting interaction with H2Srich gases or very high pH values (&gtSettore GEO/08 - Geochimica E Vulcanologia
researchProduct

Live human exhibitions in the territory of Latvia: re-discovered events

2022

Abstract of the report “Live human exhibitions in the territory of Latvia: re-discovered events”, presented on June 15, 2022 at the international conference “RE: 22 Nordic Ethnology and folklore conference” organized by the University of Iceland.

:HUMANITIES and RELIGION [Research Subject Categories]Nordic EthnologyLive human exhibitions in the territory of LatviaFolklore
researchProduct

L'utilità dell'inutile - The Usefulness of Uselessness - La utilidad de lo inutil

2015

Testo critico sull'esperimento didattico "Inhabiting the Territory" : un laboratorio, esteso tra l’Italia e il Cile, un luogo di elaborazione dell’esperienza diretta, che lavora trasversalmente all’architettura, al design e al paesaggio, per riconoscerne – per contatto così come per differenza – contaminazioni e aderenze, contenuti e concetti, potenzialità e previsioni, e che prova a tenere insieme luoghi distanti, materie impreviste, cultura locale e cultura materiale, la città densa con la campagna estesa e a bassa densità… i Quattro Canti di città, a Palermo e Loanco sull’Oceano Pacifico. È una didattica del pensiero e delle mani, per sperimentare prima di fare, per fare senza aver paura…

ARQUITECTURA PROYECTO TALLER EXPERIMENTO DE ENSENANZA CONSTRUIR 1: 1 DISEÑO PAISAJE TERRITORIOARCHITETTURA PROGETTO WORKSHOP ESPERIMENTO DIDATTICO COSTRUZIONE 1:1 DESIGN PAESAGGIO TERRITORIOSettore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E UrbanaSettore ICAR/13 - Disegno IndustrialeARCHITECTURE PROJECT WORKSHOP TEACHING EXPERIMENT BUILDING 1:1 DESIGN LANDSCAPE TERRITORY
researchProduct

Network of small towns. Themes and projects in the territory of Tindari

2019

The protection of natural and cultural resources in small towns is a topic of growing interest within the European context and aims to enhance the local heritage toward an interaction consciously balanced between human activities. The project Tindari 2030: Natural emotion led by the research group LabCity Architecture aims to indicate and enhance the territory of Tindari with regard to its natural, cultural and religious resources, such as the Sanctuary of the Black Madonna, an archaeological site (396 BC), the sandy naturalistic system of the 'Laghetti di Marinello',the 'Coda di Volpe' trail, which is the remaining part of the 'Via Francigena Palermo-Messina per la marina'. This project in…

Action research Architectural design Territory enhancement Natural resource Network
researchProduct

Rete di centri minori. Temi e progetti nel territorio di Tindari

2019

The protection of natural and cultural resources in small towns is a topic of growing interest within the European context and aims to enhance the local heritage toward an interaction consciously balanced between human activities. The project Tindari 2030: Natural emotion led by the research group LabCity Architecture aims to indicate and enhance the territory of Tindari with regard to its natural, cultural and religious resources, such as the Sanctuary of the Black Madonna, an archaeological site (396 BC), the sandy naturalistic system of the 'Laghetti di Marinello',the 'Coda di Volpe' trail, which is the remaining part of the 'Via Francigena Palermo-Messina per la marina'. This project in…

Action research architectural design territory enhancement natural resource networkSettore ICAR/14 - Composizione Architettonica E Urbana
researchProduct

Développement territorial soutenable: l'approche des libertés et ses conséquences pour les politiques d'attractivité

2014

Moving from the concepts of territory as a social construct and of development as the progressive, dynamic fulfilment of self-established goals, the paper aims to show how a genuine strategy of development helps building up a sustainable attractiveness. To achieve this goal, the paper first investigates the accuracy of the Nation Brand Index as a signal of the territorial attractiveness, positive or negative, in a long term perspective. Second, the pertinence of the freedom approach to development in order to fully integrate the sustainability issues is enlightened. Finally, the two models are tied together, thus allowing the mutual links and synergies to appear and corroborating the idea t…

AttractivenessDSVTerritoryDevelopmentsustainability
researchProduct

The territories of tourism: a reflection about the experience of the Tourist Districts (Local Tourism Systems) in Sicily

2013

The tourist district is an important tool for territorial governance of regional tourism. The district is a type of Local System which is characterized by its multidimensionality, as well as the spatial contiguity of traders who belong to it. The territory is a space transformed by social interactions and relations of production: it is therefore the indispensable reference for measuring the impact of tourism. A bottom up approach in the process of identification of the districts is therefore vital. A Balance Score Card-approach is desirable to correctly manage this process. This study is a preliminary analysis derived from direct experience of the Sicilian tourist districts, recently formed…

Balanced scorecardDistrito Territorio Sistema de Turismo local clasificación espacial SiciliaRelations of productionTourism geographyDistritoclasificación espaciallcsh:Recreation. Leisurelcsh:GV1-1860Top-down and bottom-up designTerritorioSpace (commercial competition)language.human_languageGeographySistema de Turismo localSettore SECS-S/03 - Statistica EconomicaRegional sciencelanguageSiciliaDirect experienceSicilianTourismDistrict Territory Local Tourism System Spatial classification Sicily
researchProduct