scholarly journals Paisagem Cultural de Transumância: A Rota da Serra da Estrela para as Campinas de Idanha

CEM ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Raquel Carvalho ◽  
Teresa Portela Marques
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Interior Region ◽  
Seasonal Movements ◽  
Wool Production ◽  
Deep Knowledge ◽  
Acti Vity ◽  
Serra Da Estrela

: The transhumance cultural landscape reflects a deep knowledge of the territory. Based on pastoral activity, involves spatial, periodic and seasonal movements of livestock between mountain pastures, valleys and lowlands, to provide food. We highlight an important Portuguese route: Serra da Estrela – Idanha-a-Nova, where wool production was the main activity’s driving force. The acti‑ vity reached its peak in the Middle Ages and survived until the 1950s in Beira Interior region. Aware that change is an inherent dynamic in landscape, we cannot, however, disregard that over generations, the use of endogenous natural resources, shows an understanding of the ecosystem, contributing to the region’s cultural and landscape identity heritage.

Developing Right Graduate Attributes through Project-Based Teaching

2012 ◽  
pp. 64-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
The Right

Engineering education all over the world is of paramount importance as it is this education which provides economies with opportunities for development and growth. Engineering education is important for both developed and developing economies—for the former to maintain their lead position and for the latter to ensure decent livelihood and utilization of natural resources. In such a situation, engineering education needs to continuously upgrade itself to meet the ever changing needs of the economy, society, and mankind. Hence, understanding engineering education and reviewing the methods and standards are important if all stakeholders have to be satisfied. With the driving force of the globalization of the engineering profession, adopting project-based teaching methods have mutual recognition across the world, and also help to develop the right graduate attributes while continuing to assure the standards and quality of engineering education.

Biotechnology as a Driving Force for Regional Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-51
Author(s):  
Maurício Aguiar Serra ◽  
José Raimundo Vergolino ◽  
Artur da Silva Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
The State ◽  
Biotechnological Products ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
The Relationship

The main objective of this article is to analyse the development of Amazon region through biotechnological activities. Amazonia, by virtue of its tremendous biodiversity, has excellent possibilities of meeting a growing market for biotechnological products, being that the development of this sector demands not only abundant natural resources, but also the existence of an institutional environment that is able to integrate productive activities with research on science and technology. The promotion of regional development, thus, depends on the configuration, which, according to Boisier, is composed by six elements, present in all regions that interact with each other. The article concludes that Amazonian development is directly related to the participation capability of many segments of society for the development of biotechnological activities, in which the State should play an important role in drawing up policies towards the biotechnological sector and, at the same time, in setting up participation channels for the relationship among actors.

scholarly journals Studenica Marble: Significance, Use, Conservation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nevena Debljović Ristić ◽  
Nenad Šekularac ◽  
Dušan Mijović ◽  
Jelena Ivanović Šekularac
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
The Right

Studenica marble is the stone used in creating the mediaeval Serbian cultural heritage. This is a historical overview of the importance and use of stone from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages, when the most imposing religious architectural structures were built. The significance of Studenica marble is particularly manifested in the Virgin’s Church at the Studenica Monastery. For its marble façades and artistic architectural elements, among other things, the church was inscribed in the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage List in 1986. Through centuries, the Virgin’s Church suffered multiple destructions. In order to restore the marble façades properly and its architectural elements, the marble deposits where the stone was once quarried had to be located anew. When the stone material characterisation had been performed, the right stone was selected for the complex conservation works on the churches in Studenica and Sopocani. A practical implementation of the research results raised the awareness of the marble deposits in the Studenica vicinity, being also part of the national heritage. The Studenica Monastery Cultural Landscape Management Plan envisions preservation of the deposits and their sustainable use for restoration purposes in the future.

Hermeneutik der Minne: Liebesdichtung und religiöser Diskurs bei Dante und Petrarca

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Regn
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Courtly Love ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

AbstractAn important characteristic of Italian minne-poetry in the late Middle Ages is the negotiation of the Sacred and the Profane. Nonetheless, Dante and Petrarch, the most important representatives of Italian minne-poetry, enter this negotiation in very different ways. Dante proposes to align mundane minne-poetry - as a form of minne-theology - with sacralization; with that, Dante seems to be in perfect harmony with his epoch, commonly referred to as Christian or theocentric Middle Ages. But looking more closely, Dante’s sacralization of courtly love reveals itself to be an outrageous provocation of Christian orthodoxy: Dante’s minne-poetry presents itself as a supplement to the Gospel’s promise of Salvation, and thus obviously competes with the institutionalized religion. Petrarch, very much concerned to be perceived as the one to overcome the ‘Dark Ages’ represented by Dante and from there as the founding authority of what we call Renaissance, quotes Dante’s sacralization of the courtly love in order to cancel demonstratively its claim to ontological substance. Different to Dante, Petrarch avoids all heretic appearance by presenting the divinization of the minne-lady as a mere phantasm which is finally recognized as the result of a morally erroneous conception of love. Therefore with Petrarch, Christian orthodoxy is not overtly contested. This paradoxically clears the way for a genuine worldly poetry in which art itself gains the aura of the sacred: thus with Petrarch, the will to balance religion and love becomes a driving force of secularization.

The Monasteries Founded by the Thirteen Syrian Fathers in Iberia

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-39
Author(s):  
Shota Matitashvili
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ascetic Communities ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Written Sources

A new step in the history of Christian monasticism in eastern Georgia is associated with thirteen Syrian monks, led by John, who came to Iberia (K‘art‘li) in the mid-sixth century C.E. They were the bearers of a Syrian tradition that implied the combination of an heroic ascetic endeavor and an apostolic mission. They came as spiritual heirs of St. Nino, a Cappadocian virgin who converted Georgia to Christianity in the beginning of the fourth century. Their vitae were first composed by a certain hagiographer named John-Martyrius, but this work does not survive. In the tenth century, the head of the Georgian Church and the distinguished ecclesiastical writer Arsenius II (955–980) depicted their lives and deeds based on different oral and written sources. Later, other unknown authors also wrote additional hagiographical works about these Syrian ascetics. At the beginning of their ascetic and ecclesiastical careers, the thirteen Syrian monks settled on Zedazeni mountain with their spiritual supervisor, John. John later sent them to different corners of the Iberian kingdom in opposition to paganism and Zoroastrianism. They founded monasteries and became influential religious leaders during the second half of the sixth century. Through their vitae, composed by Arsenius and other unknown authors, it is possible to trace the process of transforming the small ascetic communities established by Syrian monks into great feudal organizations. These monasteries had an important impact on the Georgian social and cultural landscape during the Middle Ages.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL REGULATION OF USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-99
Author(s):  
А.H. Riabtsova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
The Russian Empire

The formation and development of legal regulation of the use of natural resources in economic activity is analyzed. It is established that certain aspects of the legal regulation of the use of some natural resources can be found in Ruska Pravda, which was carried out mainly for tax purposes. The development of legislation on the use of natural resources in the Middle Ages and during the stay of Ukraine as part of the Russian Empire is analyzed. It is established that the use of natural resources on Ukrainian lands during their stay in the Polish-Lithuanian principality was regulated mainly by customary law. Agrarian reform was carried out as a result of the adoption of the act “Ustav na Voloky” (1557). In addition, in 1567 the Forest Charter was adopted, which was one of the first acts in Europe in the field of forest protection and use. It is substantiated that until the twentieth century there was a rather fragmentary regulation of the protection and preservation of natural resources, mainly with a view to protecting the ownership of certain natural objects, especially land. The regulation of the use of natural resources in economic activity in the Soviet period and after the declaration of independence is studied. Among the first acts adopted after the revolution was the “Decree on Land” of November 8, 1917, according to which the land became state property. However, only since the 60 of the last century special laws have been adopted aimed at legal protection of nature. Normative-legal acts of independent Ukraine from the standpoint of regulating the use of natural resources in eco- no mic activity are systematized into three groups: normative acts regulating economic activity in general and certain aspects of natural resources protection; regulations that mainly regulate the protection of natural resources in general and estab lish certain principles of their use in economic activities; regulations governing the protection and use of certain types of natural resources, including in economic activities. In addition, the periodization of the historical development of legislative regulation of the use of natural resources in economic activity is suggested.

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