Towards A Spanish Atlas Of Cultural Landscapes Of Energy

In Ukraine, there is no holistic perception of historical and cultural environments of monumental ensembles and complexes as an object of protection and use today. Their preservation will be effective only when the understanding of the object of protection is extended to the boundaries of the cultural landscape, including all its valuable elements. The best way to implement this concept is to include cultural landscapes in the open-air museum exhibition as its integral, active, and living element.

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The Sayan borderlands: Tuva’s ethnocultural landscapes in changing natural and sociocultural environments

GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY ◽

10.24057/2071-9388-2019-76 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 29-36

Author(s):

D. A. Dirin ◽

Paul Fryer

Keyword(s):

Cultural Landscapes ◽

Field Studies ◽

Social Environments ◽

Key Factors ◽

Role Of Government ◽

Literary Sources ◽

Population Migrations ◽

The Republic ◽

Sociocultural Processes ◽

First Time

The paper is devoted to ethno-cultural landscapes of the Republic of Tuva. Ethnocultural landscapes (ECLs) are specific socio-environmental systems that developed as a result of the interaction of ethnic groups with their natural and social environments and are in a constant process of transformation. An attempt is made to identify the mechanisms of the formation, functioning and dynamics of ethnocultural landscapes in the specific conditions of the intracontinental cross-border mountain region, as well as to establish the main factors-catalysts of their modern changes. For the first time an attempt is made to delimit and map the ethnocultural landscapes of Tuva. For this, literary sources, statistical data and thematic maps of different times are analyzed using geoinformation methods. The results of 2014-2018 field studies are also used, during which interviews with representatives of different ethno-territorial, gender, age and social groups were taken. It is revealed that the key factors of Tuva’s ethnocultural landscape genesis are the natural isolation of its territory; the features of its landscape structure; the role of government; population migrations from other regions and the cultural diffusion provoked by them. 13 ethnocultural landscapes are identified at the regional level. Their modern transformation is determined by the shift of climatic cycles, aridisation, globalisation of sociocultural processes, changes in economic specialisation and ethnopsychological stereotypes.

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ECOLOGICAL STATUS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF RYAZAN REGION MELIORATION SYSTEM

Vestnik of the Russian agricultural science ◽

10.30850/vrsn/2019/2/33-37 ◽

1970 ◽

pp. 33-37

Author(s):

P. N. Vanyushin ◽

A. V. Kuzin ◽

А. А. Pavlov ◽

А. V. Nefedov ◽

N. А. Ivannikova

Keyword(s):

Russian Federation ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Cultural Landscapes ◽

Land Reclamation ◽

Ecological Status ◽

Economic Feasibility ◽

Drainage Systems ◽

Viable Systems ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Technical Operation

The article analyzes the current state of the irrigation and drainage systems of the Ryazan region. It is shown that the lack of technical operation of the drainage network led to its failure and failure to perform its functions. Irrigation, in spite of the fact that it gives stability in the years of droughts due to aging and the dismantling of machinery and equipment is not carried out. It is shown that for the reconstruction and / or modernization of irrigation and drainage systems it is necessary on the basis of inventory to determine the environmentally optimal and economically viable systems, their parts and structures that require rehabilitation, reconstruction and / or modernization. The decision to reconstruct may include not only the ameliorative system as a whole, but also some part of it, for example, a canal, pipeline or a separate hydraulic structure, taking into account the justification of economic feasibility. In dry periods, for the Meshcherskaya lowland and areas with peat soils, it is necessary to provide for land-reclamation systems for dual regulation of soil moisture, which reduces the possibility of peat ignition and the spread of fire. It should be borne in mind that the reconstruction of land-reclamation systems has its specific features, which include: socio-economic (increasing the productivity of agricultural land, obtaining additional income, creating modern infrastructure, increasing employment, living conditions, labor, etc.) ; ecological (creation of cultural landscapes, ensuring their ecological sustainability, prevention of land degradation processes, improvement of recreational conditions, elimination of waterlogging, flooding, salinization, erosion, etc.). Reclamation activities are carried out in compliance with the requirements of land, water, forestry legislation of the Russian Federation, as well as the legislation of the Russian Federation on the protection of the environment, on the subsurface, on the plant world and on the animal world.

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KAZAKH MUSIC CULTURE ON THE GLOBALIZATION CROSSROADS: ETHNIC TRADITIONS VERSUS COMPOSER SCHOOL IN INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION

10.32014/10.32014/2020.2518-1467.58 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 384 (2) ◽

pp. 185-193

Author(s):

A. Raimkulova

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Cultural Policy ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Cultural Landscapes ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Music Culture ◽

Oral Transmission ◽

Intercultural Interaction ◽

History Of ◽

New Type

At the present stage, Kazakh musical culture is heterogeneous. It represents traditions coexisting at the same time and interacting with each other: Kazakh ethnic and newly established composer school (tradition). Examining changes in cultural landscapes of the 20th century I reveal the peculiarities of interaction and dialogue between two kinds of culture: ethnic and global (endogenous and exogenous). The procedures include the complex study of the history of Kazakh culture in the 20th century, stylistic analysis of traditional and composer’s music, semiotic approach to intercultural interaction, as far as a comparative analysis of oral and written music of 19th and 20th centuries. On one hand, dramatic changes in the structure of music culture were caused by external objective reasons: new industrial and postindustrial civilization phases (urbanization and information technologies); intensification of interaction with western (mainly Russian) cultures, etc. On the other hand, some changes were inspired by inner factors: diverse development of local song and kui (dombyra piece) traditions; Soviet cultural policy. As a result new type (or layer) of national culture – Kazakh composers’ music – appeared. It was connected with the formation of a national style based on transcriptions and borrowing. Traditional music was influenced by new social institutions (philharmonic halls, theatres, radio, conservatoire) that caused changes in the creative process (decrease of oral transmission, lack of traditional social context) as well as in the style (virtuoso performance, new genres of songs).

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PRINCIPLES OF FORMING OBJECTS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC TOURISM WITH REGIONAL FEATURES ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE BELGOROD REGION

Technical Aesthetics and Design Research ◽

10.34031/2687-0878-2019-1-3-37-44 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 37-44

Author(s):

Elena Ladik ◽

A. Makridina

Keyword(s):

Cultural Landscape ◽

Cultural Landscapes ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Anthropogenic Pressures ◽

Regional Features ◽

The Subject ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Multi Level ◽

Stylistic Unity ◽

National Experience

The problems of planning the organization of territories and objects of ethnographic tourism, taking into account the landscape features of the regions of the Russian Federation, in particular the Belgorod region, are relevant. The study developed regional principles for planning ethno-tourist spaces on the example of the Belgorod region. The object of research is the territories favorable for the development of ethnographic tourism objects within the Belgorod region, the subject of research is the influence of regional historical and cultural features on the formation of ethnographic tourism territories. As a result of the study, based on the analysis of world and national experience in the design of ethnographic tourism objects, their typological and historical-cultural analysis, the principles of organizing ethnographic tourism objects were developed. These principles take into account such regional features of the cultural landscapes of the Belgorod region, as the principle of preservation of the cultural landscape, the principle of authenticity of the recreated environment, the principle of symbolic exposure, the principle of stylistic unity and the multi-level principle. The use of the developed principles will allow us to preserve the identity and originality of the environment, reduce anthropogenic pressures on valuable landscape areas, increase information content and determine the gradual immersion in the concept of a tourist site.

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Cultural Landscapes of India

10.2307/j.ctv17nmzz5 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

AMITA SINHA

Keyword(s):

Cultural Landscapes

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Dangerous Harvest

10.1093/oso/9780195143201.001.0001 ◽

2004 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Cultural Landscapes ◽

Plant Production ◽

Agricultural Activity ◽

External Demand ◽

Military Conflicts ◽

Global Problems ◽

Foreign Policies ◽

The Stability ◽

Economic Ties

The global drug trade and its associated violence, corruption, and human suffering create global problems that include political and military conflicts, ethnic minority human rights violations, and stresses on economic development. Drug production and eradication affects the stability of many states, shaping and sometimes distorting their foreign policies. External demand for drugs has transformed many indigenous cultures from using local agricultural activity to being enmeshed in complex global problems. Dangerous Harvest presents a global overview of indigenous peoples' relations with drugs. It presents case studies from various cultural landscapes that are involved in drug plant production, trade, and use, and examines historical uses of illicit plant substances. It continues with coverage of eradication efforts, and the environmental impact of drug plant production. In its final chapter, it synthesizes the major points made and forecasts future directions of crop substitution programs, international eradication efforts, and changes in indigenous landscapes. The book helps unveil the farmer, not to glamorize those who grow drug plants but to show the deep historical, cultural, and economic ties between farmer and crop.

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The 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention

10.1093/oso/9780198826248.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Amy Strecker

Keyword(s):

Cultural Landscapes ◽

World Heritage ◽

Unesco World Heritage ◽

Spatial Justice ◽

Landscape Governance ◽

World Heritage Convention ◽

The World ◽

The One ◽

Conceptual Dependency ◽

Landscape Protection

Chapter 5 analyses the evolving conception and protection of landscape in the World Heritage Convention. First, it traces the development of landscape protection from its early conceptual dependency on nature, to the incorporation of ‘cultural landscapes’ within the Convention’s scope in 1992. It then discusses the typology of cultural landscapes, issues of representativeness and the implications of the Word Heritage system for landscape protection globally, as well as locally. In this regard, a number of cases are analysed which, on the one hand, support the World Heritage Convention’s instrumental role in landscape governance, but which on the other, highlight the problems involved in ascribing World Heritage status to living landscapes from a spatial justice perspective.

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Legacy of Human Impact on Geomorphic Processes in Mountain Headwater Streams in the Perspective of European Cultural Landscapes

Geosciences ◽

10.3390/geosciences11060253 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 253

Author(s):

Tomáš Galia

Keyword(s):

Human Impact ◽

Cultural Landscapes ◽

Headwater Streams ◽

Timber Harvesting ◽

Anthropogenic Pressure ◽

Catchment Scale ◽

Morphological Response ◽

Mountain Ranges ◽

Outer Western Carpathians ◽

Geomorphic Processes

Mountain headwater streams are still somewhat on the boundary of interest regarding possible human impact on their morphology or geomorphic processes, which may be caused by our perception of mountains as islands of relatively preserved natural conditions. This paper summarizes the past and present human pressure on the headwater streams that drain the highest mountain ranges of the Outer Western Carpathians in Czechia. Anthropogenic pressure began in this region in the 16th century during a colonization of the mountains and continued by timber harvesting, timber floating, and construction of torrent control works until present. Each of these interventions produced a morphological response of the channels in relation to altered sediment or water fluxes at the whole catchment scale or within longitudinal stream profiles. Because it is highly unlikely to reach pre-settlement conditions of the channels, the management effort should be concentrated to achieve realistic restoration targets under the present socioeconomic circumstances by taking into consideration the morphodynamical specifics of mountain headwater streams.

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Renovation of Public Lighting Systems in Cultural Landscapes: Lighting and Energy Performance and Their Impact on Nightscapes

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14020509 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 509

Author(s):

Lodovica Valetti ◽

Francesca Floris ◽

Anna Pellegrino

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficient ◽

Flux Distribution ◽

Cultural Landscapes ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Luminous Flux ◽

Landscape Value ◽

Reduce Energy Consumption ◽

Lighting Systems ◽

The Impact ◽

Positive Effect

The technological innovation in the field of lighting and the need to reduce energy consumption connected to public lighting are leading many municipalities to undertake the renewal of public lighting systems, by replacing the existing luminaires with LED technologies. This renovation process is usually aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing maintenance costs, whist improving the lighting performance. To achieve these results, the new luminaires are often characterised by a luminous flux distribution much more downward oriented, which may remarkably influence and alter the perception of the night image of the sites. In this study the implications of the renovation of public lighting systems in terms of lighting and energy performance as well as the effects relating to the alteration of the night image, in historical contexts characterized by significant landscape value, are analysed. Results, along with demonstrating the positive effect that more sustainable and energy efficient lighting systems may have on the lighting performance and energy consumptions of public lighting systems, evidences the impact they may have on the alteration of the nocturnal image.

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