scholarly journals Architecture, that wins peaks – triumph or confusion

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00191
Author(s):  
Anna Wojtas Harań
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Natural Forms ◽  
Mountain Environment ◽  
The Alps ◽  
Tourist Infrastructure

The natural landscape provokes artists to revive it with architecture. Architects overcome technical limitations, physiographic, customary more or less picturesquely incorporating their works into the richness of natural forms. Many benefits come from this recklessness for the region. The hit trend is also appreciated for the triumph of technical thought. It puts into confusion at once because of the gradual takeover of the natural environment. The aim of the work is to search for solutions that would help preserve the beauty of the mountain environment and at the same time make the widest group of recipients available. Analyzing the above issues, the comparative method was used, presenting achievements in the field of high-altitude objects design in extreme physiographic conditions, implemented in the Alps region. The region has a developed ski and tourist infrastructure. It is an example of maintaining moderation and specific character, despite growing new needs and expectations from tourists and sportsmen. However, it is not free from the over-investment trap.

A silicon diode based detector for radiation measurement in high altitude natural environment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Pantel ◽  
J.-R. Vaille ◽  
F. Wrobel ◽  
L. Dilillo ◽  
J.-M. Galliere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Radiation Measurement ◽  
Silicon Diode

scholarly journals Classification of objects of tourism infrastructure in rural areas based on the use of historical, architectural and natural landscape potential on the example of Novosheshminsky region of the Republic of Tatarstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 01030
Author(s):  
Stepan Novikov ◽  
Valeria Osina
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Theoretical Method ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Tourist Infrastructure ◽  
The Republic

Modern tourist trends are directed towards the undeveloped lands of the suburbs and rural areas, where, along with the agricultural and industrial orientation, the historical, architectural and natural landscape potential is preserved. To attract the tourist flow to the territory, routes are formed that allow identifying the historical significance and presenting this place taking into account ethnic, architectural, artistic and landscape features. Novosheshminsky region of the Republic of Tatarstan has a significant historical and cultural potential, is rich in natural resources, and flourishes in agriculture and horse breeding. For the sustainable development of the territory, it is proposed to form a tourist route that combines the key points of attracting tourists using the features of the tourist infrastructure. General logical methods-the analogy of domestic and foreign experience in organizing routes in rural areas, induction and observation, the theoretical method-historical and socio-cultural analysis of the Novosheshma region-revealed significant aspects in the organization of tourist infrastructure and methods of their correct use in these conditions. The result of the study was the creation of a tourist route on the territory of the Novosheshminsky region, followed by a proposal for the classification of tourist infrastructure objects necessary for its full functioning.

scholarly journals A Spatial Approach for Framing the Development of Tourism: Bahía Solano – Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmuth Yesid Arias Gómez ◽  
Gabriela Antošová
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Tourism Planning ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Planning Strategy ◽  
General Frame ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Natural Context ◽  
Spatial Approach

AbstractThe article explores the natural context and the geographical conditions for developing tourism and for designing sectorial plans. The objective is to offer basic visual rendering as a resource for appreciating the natural environs in which the tourist activity evolves and use such resource as useful input during the planning and designing exercises. The methodology relies on the application of cartographic and spatial tools as instruments for recognising the territory and the natural landscape. The results render the current condition of natural resources and the territorial reality, as a general frame for proposing sustainable strategies of tourism planning. The contribution of the analysis can be appreciated amid the scarcity of local and specific cartographic analysis, and the precarious stock of inputs that could guide the tourism and the territorial planning in lagged territories. An overwhelming conclusion of our exercise is that the awarness and valuations of natural endowments are key elements for preserving the environment and for applying an adequate planning strategy in order to reconcile the economic necessities and the preservation of natural environment.

scholarly journals Environmental factors as drivers for macroinvertebrate and diatom diversity in Alpine lakes: New insights from the Stelvio National Park (Italy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Boggero ◽  
Silvia Zaupa ◽  
Simona Musazzi ◽  
Michela Rogora ◽  
Elzbieta Dumnicka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
National Park ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Nutrient Content ◽  
Eastern Alps ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Alpine Lakes ◽  
High Altitude Lakes ◽  
The Alps

Information on the biodiversity of high altitude lakes in the Stelvio National Park was scarce and fragmentary, in most cases limited to a few studies on a single biological issue. To fill this gap, a multidisciplinary research program was established in 2011 to investigate macroinvertebrates, diatoms, and water chemistry in 8 high altitude lakes within the boundaries of the Park (Rhaetian Alps, Eastern Alps). The results of this study were compared with data on biological assemblages and chemical parameters of Alpine lakes in the Pennine-Lepontine Alps (Western Alps), to evaluate the role of local drivers with respect to regional ones. This comparison was possible thanks to the adoption of standardized sampling methodologies developed since the ’90s by the National Research Council-Water Research Institute (Verbania), in collaboration with several European Research centers. Despite located in a restricted geographical area, the lakes of the Stelvio National Park showed a high variability of chemical composition, and of sensitivity to acidification, lower than that of the Pennine-Lepontine Alpine lakes. Macroinvertebrate and diatom taxa were ubiquitous and frequent along the Alps, and mainly represented by cold-stenothermal species. Richness, Shannon, Simpson, and Pielou indices applied to phyto- and zoobenthos highlighted significantly lower values in Stelvio National Park lakes than in those of Pennine-Lepontine for macroinvertebrates, while no significant differences were found for diatoms. Two groups of lakes were identified by Cluster Analysis, mainly on the basis of major ion concentrations. Canonical Correspondence Analysis showed that the macroinvertebrate assemblage of the lakes studied is driven mainly by altitude and lake surface, and, to a lesser extent, by nutrient content. On the contrary, pH and acid-related variables played a secondary role for diatoms, while nutrients and, more in general, ionic content had significant effects on their species composition. Overall, the results of this first investigation showed that the high elevation of these lakes affects their macroinvertebrate assemblages, while their diatom communities are comparable throughout the Alps.

scholarly journals Preexisting Cardiovascular Diseases Among High‐Altitude Mountaineers in the Alps: Table 1

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 355-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Faulhaber ◽  
Hannes Gatterer ◽  
Martin Burtscher
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
High Altitude ◽  
The Alps

The Neolithic quarries of Mont Viso, Piedmont, Italy: initial radiocarbon dates

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Pétrequin ◽  
Michel Errera ◽  
Anne-Marie Pétrequin ◽  
Pierre Allard
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
High Altitude ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Paris Basin ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Jura ◽  
The Alps

Two groups of quarries (Mont Viso and Mont Beigua, Italy) were the source of the Alpine axeheads that circulated throughout western Europe during the Neolithic. The quarries on Mont Viso (Oncino: Porco, Bulè and Milanese), discovered in 2003, have been radiocarbon-dated, and this has revealed that the exploitation of jadeites, omphacitites and eclogites at high altitude (2000–2400 m above sea level) seems to have reached its apogee in the centuries around 5000 BC. The products, in the form of small axe- and adze-heads, were distributed beyond the Alps from the beginning of the fifth millennium, a few being found as far away as the Paris Basin, 550 km from their source as the crow flies. However, it was not until the mid-fifth millennium BC that long axeheads from Mont Viso appeared in the hoards and monumental tombs of the Morbihan, 800 km from the quarries. Production continued until the beginning of the third millennium BC, but at this time the distribution of the products was less extensive, and the process of distribution operated in a different way: tools made from jadeite and eclogite are still found in the French Jura, but the extraction sites at the south-east foot of Mont Viso no longer seem to have been used. The variability in the geographical extent of the distribution at different times seems to be related to the social context of exploitation of the high-altitude quarries, which were only ever accessible for a few months each year.

Landscape changes caused by high altitude ski-pistes affect bird species richness and distribution in the Alps

2011 ◽  
Vol 144 (12) ◽  
pp. 2958-2967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Caprio ◽  
Dan E. Chamberlain ◽  
Marco Isaia ◽  
Antonio Rolando
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
High Altitude ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Landscape Changes ◽  
Bird Species Richness ◽  
The Alps

scholarly journals For An Ecological Awareness of Responsible Living

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Vereno Brugiatelli
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Ethics Of Responsibility ◽  
Ecological Drift ◽  
The Human Condition

The entrenched and firm conviction that man is master of nature while being separate from it has fostered the culture of the indiscriminate use of natural resources, the destruction of eco-systems and a waste society. Over recent decades, behind the urgent need to halt the ecological drift, the natural landscape has been of considerable interest in various disciplinary contexts including biology, from which it has gained renewed consideration from the “ecology of landscape” perspective, and ethics. Once the theoretical aspects of the ecology of the landscape concept have been clarified, I will demonstrate that the human condition is part of the natural environment. On this basis I will highlight the necessity for man to develop an ecological awareness founded on responsibility regarding biodiversity. The ethics of responsibility, enlightened by an ecological awareness, have to inspire living and guide environmental policy-making.

scholarly journals Nacionalizar la naturaleza. Ciencias naturales y discursos nacionalistas en la España del regeneracionismo

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Santos Casado de Otaola
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Mining Engineer ◽  
Identidad Nacional ◽  
Ultimate Source ◽  
Scientific Survey

The intertwining of science and literature is a prominent feature of those nationalistic discourses, spanning the turn-of-the-century decades from approximately 1870 to 1930, that have become regarded as typical of Spanish regeneracionismo. Naturalists, such as geologist and mining engineer, Lucas Mallada, or geographer and geologist, Eduardo Hernández-Pacheco, tapped into the intellectual authority of science in order to provide new narratives of Spanish nature as the ultimate source of both national identity and national prosperity. First, if Spaniards were to have a realistic account of the opportunities and obstacles involved in their millenary relationship with a rich and diverse, but nonetheless rugged and harsh, natural environment, a full scientific survey of the Spanish territory was in order. Second, inspirations for a renewed and strengthened national identity could be derived from a re-examination of Spanish nature. In the midst of a particularly acute fin-de-siècle crisis, many intellectuals turned towards the natural landscape as a source of healing and regeneration, hoping to rejuvenate a deep, ages-old, organic relationship between the Spanish people and Iberian nature. Ciencia y literatura aparecen entrelazadas en los discursos nacionalistas que caracterizan la política y la cultura españolas del regeneracionismo, a lo largo del prolongado cambio de siglo que va desde la década de 1870 a la de 1930. Naturalistas como el geólogo e ingeniero de minas Lucas Mallada o el geógrafo y geólogo Eduardo Hernández-Pacheco recurrieron a la autoridad de la ciencia para ofrecer nuevas narrativas acerca de la naturaleza española en las que esta se presentaba como la fuente última de la identidad y la prosperidad nacionales. En primer lugar, se imponía acometer un reconocimiento científico del territorio español que proporcionase una base de conocimiento realista sobre las oportunidades y los obstáculos que los españoles hallaban en su milenaria relación con su medio natural, que si bien ofrecía riqueza y diversidad no dejaba al tiempo de ser considerablemente áspero y bravío. En segundo lugar, un retorno a la propia naturaleza prometía ser fuente de inspiración para una renovada y reforzada identidad nacional. Sumidos en una crisis finisecular que se dejó sentir en España con particular intensidad, muchos intelectuales se volvieron hacia el paisaje natural como fuente de curación y regeneración, en la esperanza de reverdecer una profunda, milenaria y orgánica relación del pueblo español con su solar natural.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document