Dissertations / Theses: 'Natural heritage'

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Schaub, Mareike. "Natural and Cultural Heritage in Tourism on Gotland : Heritage Tourism Characteristics and the Relation of Natural and Cultural Heritage." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414410.

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This thesis researches into the heritage tourism characteristics on Gotland. Many destinations see a great potential to develop new tourism products around their heritage and thus meet a rising demand for enriching and unique visitor experiences. However, different considerations and stakeholders need to be taken into account to foster a sustainable development. The Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea has a long history as a tourism destination and is rich in heritage resources of diverse origin. A qualitative approach has been taken to study which traits characterise heritage related tourism to Gotland, and which potentials and challenges are seen by major stakeholders in the tourism and heritage development. One protruding result has been the strong connection between natural and cultural elements at the heritage sites as well as in tourism demand. Also the tourism strategy for Gotland strives for a further development of nature and culture as thematic tourism areas. Hence, a closer look has been taken into the relation of these two heritage elements. With help of the concept and methodology of heritagescapes two heritage sites have been analysed in a case study approach. The result shows that the integration of natural and cultural heritage to create cohesive and immersive visitor experiences at one site is challenging. However, taking both heritage elements into account can create synergies and they enhance how the respective other heritage element is experienced. This can broaden which visitor groups are attracted and in which season. Furthermore, the heritagescape approach gives practical management implications for the sites.

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Samuel, Andrew Monteith Marshall. "Science as practice : conserving Scotland's natural heritage." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337255.

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Arbour, Thomas Paul. "INTERNSHIP WITH THE OHIO NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1133556647.

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Haw, Nicole. "Cultural heritage management within nature conservation areas : heritage manager's guide." Pretoria : [s. n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05272008-144143/.

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Cassingham, Kirsten Michaele. "Voluntary Conservation: Private landowner participation in North Carolina's Natural Heritage Program (spatial analysis of the Natural Heritage Program in North Carolina)." NCSU, 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20010817-141234.

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Conflict between the public interests in non-timber amenities of forests and the private rights of forest owners has focused attention on voluntary conservation agreements as a policy tool. In North Carolina, the Natural Heritage Program identifies ecologically significant sites and provides two mechanisms for landholders to participate in conservation of those sites. Evaluation of the program from a spatial perspective focused on the mountain province of North Carolina, using a geographic information system (GIS) to characterize the conservation outcome of the program (i.e., what has been conserved) and the determinants of participation in the program (i.e., who has conserved). To characterize the participation decision, literature was reviewed on voluntary forest stewardship and conservation programs and spatial analysis of land-use. The effect of neighborhood characteristics (e.g., near-by protected areas) and distance (e.g., from highways and cities) was considered, as well as characteristics of the landowner and of the site. The conservation outcome of the program was evaluated in terms of protection of ecologically significant sites, considering both Heritage Program rankings and land cover.

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Ryan, Sean Patrick. "Transferable development rights for natural heritage conservation in Queensland /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18468.pdf.

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Costa, Alice Maria Tavares Alves da. "Integrated conservation strategy of built heritage: traditional construction systems and natural materials." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14808.

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Doutoramento em Engenharia Civil
The risk of losing ancient construction systems is highly relevant in the whole Mediterranean region, but also in many other countries worldwide. The earthen heritage and the mixed construction systems with timber are decreasing very fast and being identified in lists of risk by UNESCO, ICOMOS and by many researchers all over the world. They represent a cultural value of the societies that is being neglected due to unbalanced development, demolitions, lack of knowledge, and guidelines for conservation, instead of the expected unique reason of decay due to natural agents or ageing. Although some conservation approaches have been successful, the results are still scarce and the mistakes continuously repeated imposing irreversible gaps in reading this relevant heritage, mainly in urban areas. This entails questions about the approach to protection, conservation, and the reasons behind such disseminated failure in these objectives. The earthen architecture shows precisely the difficulties in the establishment of a strategy able to successfully achieve the goal of preserving its cultural value. This needs continuous research and ability to communicate the best conservation strategy as just one of the steps of a balanced framework. This investigation aims to discover reasons for failure of conservation strategies involving the traditional construction systems, valuing the case of adobe architecture; to give significance to traditional construction systems as a cultural value to protect and preserve; to propose conservation research areas necessary in a framework of integrated conservation of built heritage, involving the specific case of adobe buildings. The research methodology of this investigation is based mostly on qualitative methods and a case study about adobe construction system, its evolution since the 19th century until the middle of 20th century, and its interaction with architecture. The case study was used to address the main identified gaps of research needed to proceed with an integrated conservation and protection approach of adobe heritage in Portugal. A combination of sources was used following a multi-method approach: in situ surveys, collection of archive files (drawings, written documents and photos), published literature, published and unpublished reports from international organisations, photographic reports, open interviews, and laboratory tests. The first analyses show evidence of multiple causes of failure for the support of conservation strategies. The most important is the lack of a long-term integrated strategy within a recognized and supported framework. Secondly, the continuity of shortcomings is expressed in inadequate choices at several levels of decision-making, absence of measures of maintenance and conservation. Thirdly, the lack of knowledge about the adobe traditional construction system, its evolution and wide interaction with architecture, the approach to the present standards of comfort, and finally, the problem of waterproof barrier and salt’s effects are the main causes of failure in the promotion of adobe conservation strategies. This research recommends the use of the construction system as a cultural value to guarantee the longevity of traditional building heritage, supported by research. It also stresses the importance of understanding the difficulties of application of conservation strategies, looking to a wider international area to better understand the reasons behind causes and eventual successes. It proposes an interpretation of evolution of the adobe construction system and identifies the main defects, both of which should constitute the base of knowledge of any conservation strategy. Finally, considering an integrated framework of conservation strategy, an approach is recommended that integrates key issues of awareness for heritage and research. The specific case study of adobe construction emphasized three main approach areas: the vernacular architecture for public awareness; thermal and comfort issues for protection strategy; and finally, the waterproof barrier with diatomaceous earth, its role in the decrease of salt’s effects and as an effective barrier, for the use of research to solve technical problems of earthen construction.
O risco de perder sistemas de construtivos antigos é altamente relevante em toda a região do Mediterrâneo, mas também em muitos outros países do mundo. O Património de terra e os sistemas construtivos mistos com madeira estão a decrescer rapidamente e são alvo de propostas para integrarem listas de Risco pela UNESCO, ICOMOS e com alertas de vários investigadores de todo o mundo. Estes sistemas, representam um valor cultural das sociedades, que está a ser negligenciado devido ao desenvolvimento desequilibrado, às demolições, à falta de conhecimento, e à falta de diretrizes para a conservação, em vez de a expectável única razão, de deterioração devido aos agentes naturais ou ao seu próprio envelhecimento. Embora algumas experiências de Conservação tenham sido bem sucedidas, os resultados ainda são escassos e os erros continuamente repetidos, impondo lacunas irreversíveis na leitura deste Património relevante, principalmente em áreas urbanas. Isto levanta questões sobre a abordagem à proteção, à conservação, e às razões que estão por trás de tão disseminada falha nos objetivos. A Arquitectura de Terra sofre precisamente destas dificuldades no estabelecimento de uma estratégia capaz de alcançar com sucesso o objetivo de preservar o seu Valor Cultural. O que requer uma investigação contínua e capacidade de comunicar a melhor estratégia de conservação capaz de alcançar com sucesso a compatibilização para a preservação do seu valor cultural, como apenas uma das etapas de um enquadramento equilibrado. Esta investigação tem como objetivo: descobrir as razões subjacentes ao fracasso de estratégias de conservação; investigar os sistemas de construção tradicionais, valorizando o caso da arquitetura de adobe; estudar a significância dos sistemas construtivos tradicionais como valores culturais a proteger e preservar; propor áreas de pesquisa de conservação dentro de um quadro de Conservação Integrada do Património construído, envolvendo o caso específico dos edifícios de adobe. As primeiras análises mostram evidências de múltiplas causas de fracasso para o apoio de medidas de conservação. O que mais se destaca é a falta de uma estratégia integrada de longo prazo, num programa reconhecido e apoiado. Em segundo lugar, a continuidade das deficiências é expressa nas escolhas inadequadas em vários níveis da tomada de decisão, a ausência de medidas de manutenção e conservação. Em terceiro lugar, a falta de conhecimento sobre os sistemas construtivos tradicionais (de adobe), sua evolução e ampla interação com a arquitetura, a abordagem sobre compatibilização dos atuais padrões de conforto com o valor cultural, e, finalmente, o problema particular do corte hídrico e controlo da ação dos sais no edificado antigo, são causas de falha nas estratégias de conservação de adobe, por falta de informação e de investigação. Esta pesquisa recomenda o reconhecimento do sistema construtivo como um valor cultural, para garantir a longevidade do Património construído tradicional, apoiado na investigação. Aborda as dificuldades de aplicação de estratégias de conservação, a nível internacional para melhor compreender as razões de sucesso ou fracasso. Propõe uma interpretação da evolução do sistema construtivo de adobe e identifica os principais defeitos, para apoiar a base de conhecimento de estratégias de conservação. Por fim, considerando o âmbito de uma Conservação Integrada recomenda uma abordagem que integre questões-chave de sensibilização para o património e investigação. O caso de estudo de construção de adobe enfatiza três destas áreas: a ligação entre a arquitetura vernacular e a arquitetura, para sensibilização do público; os problemas de compatibilidade com o conforto, para estratégia de proteção; e finalmente, o efeito da diatomite em barreiras de corte hídrico e aos sais, para apoio aos problemas técnicos de conservação do Património de Terra.
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Evans, Colleen R. "Developing a Collection Digitization Workflow for the Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500042/.

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Natural history collections house immense amounts of data, but the majority of data is only accessible by locating the collection label, which is usually attached to the physical specimen. This method of data retrieval is time consuming and can be very damaging to fragile specimens. Digitizing the collections is the one way to reduce the time and potential damage related to finding the collection objects. The Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum is a natural history museum located at the University of North Texas and contains collections of both vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, as well as plants. This project designed a collection digitization workflow for Elm Fork by working through digitizing the Benjamin B. Harris Herbarium. The collection was cataloged in Specify 6, a database program designed for natural history collection management. By working through one of the museum’s collections, the project was able to identify and address challenges related to digitizing the museum’s holdings in order to create robust workflows. The project also produced a series of documents explaining common processes in Specify and a data management plan.

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Morris, Benjamin Alan. "Culture après le déluge : heritage ecology after disaster." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/226856.

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This PhD dissertation examines the relationships between cultural heritage and the environment, focusing specifically on the devastation and rebuilding of New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Departing from conventional approaches to the natural world (such as documentation- and conservation-based approaches), this thesis adopts a developmental-systems based approach to cultural heritage in order to construct a new way of interpreting it, within the specific context of natural disaster. This new approach, termed 'heritage ecology', reinterprets cultural heritage in two ways: first, as a physical assemblage of sites, materials, traditions, beliefs, and practices that are constructed in significant ways by their natural environments; and second, as a metaphorical ecosystem which impacts back on the assessment and construction of that natural environment in turn. In order to construct this approach, the thesis poses three interrelated questions: how is cultural heritage transformed as a result of disaster, how do societies rebuild their heritage after disaster, and how does heritage contribute to the rebuilding process? Examining a rebuilding process in real-time provides a unique window on these processes; events and developments in New Orleans taken from the first four years of recovery (2005-2009) suggest that prior understandings of how societies rebuild themselves after disaster have neglected crucial aspects of cultural heritage that are integral to that process. The examination of data from the case study - data of diverse forms, such as historiography, the culinary arts, music, the built environment, and memorial sites and landscapes - reveals the limitations of traditional approaches to heritage and prompts a reassessment of a range of issues central to heritage research, issues such as materiality, authenticity, and commodification. This study moreover incorporates into heritage research concepts previously unconsidered, such as infrastructure and policy. In the coming century of global climate change and increased environmental hazards, this last theme will become increasingly central to heritage policy and research; the dissertation concludes accordingly, with a reflection on contingency and future disaster.

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Shum, Yuen-wah Ferna. "Towards integrated heritage conservation in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13883835.

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Godden, Lee. "Nature as Other: The Legal Ordering of the Natural World: Natural Heritage Law and Its Intersection With Property Law and Native Title." Thesis, Griffith University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368114.

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This thesis argues that the legal ordering of the natural environment represents a culturally contingent 'order of things'. Within this process of categorisation, Nature is constructed as an 'other' to the human subject. This opposition allows nature to be conceived as either an object of control, as found in property law, or as a wilderness to be preserved apart from human society. This latter view is implicit to the principles informing early environmental laws for the protection of natural heritage in international law and within Australia. More recently, this distinctively western legal ordering has been challenged to be more culturally inclusive and to include concepts that incorporate human interaction with the natural environment. In making this argument, the thesis adopts a theoretical framework derived from Foucault's 'Order of Things'. Modem western understanding of the natural environment is directly informed by western science. Scientific discourses, with origins in the Enlightenment, have been extremely influential in determining the legal ordering of the natural environment. In this context, the thesis provides an overview of the conceptual shift from a pre-scientific, organic conception of the relationship between people and nature to a people/nature dichotomy that persists as the nature/culture meta-narrative in modern society. The rise of a more holistic conception of the natural environment, based in ecological principles, has only partially displaced the latter view. The thesis also examines the manner in which property law constitutes the 'proper' order of the natural world within western culture. The bundle of rights concept, implicit to modern conceptions of property, finds resonances in western scientific understanding of the natural world. In particular, property law replicates the subject /object distinction that is central to modern western thought. The positing of nature as an object of control through the property relationship has been a resilient ordering of the natural environment. It has directly contributed to an instrumental perception of the natural environment. Indeed, the property concept was the central way of 'constructing' the Australian natural environment at law from colonisation to well into the twentieth century. The initial legal designation of Australia as 'terra nullius' allowed received English property law to form the template for ordering the occupation of the Australian natural environment by British civilisation. In the second half of the 20th century the wilderness ideal, in concert with ecological 'balance' concepts, gained currency in international and domestic law as the foundation for the protection of natural heritage. Natural heritage protection was a high profile aspect of early environmental laws in Australia. Thus the World Heritage Convention assumed an importance for natural heritage protection within Australia due to specific historical, political and constitutional factors. The adoption of 'holistic' definitions of environment in many pieces of Australian legislation has served to partially displace the instrumental, proprietary view of nature. However, the legal recognition of natural heritage, when based around wilderness ideals, remains predicated upon the western people/nature dichotomy. More recently, reforms to early environmental laws have been instituted and case law reveals a state of flux in how natural heritage areas are to be identified and valued. The traditional western legal constructions of nature have served to occlude Aboriginal and Tones Strait Islander peoples' relationships with 'country'. Such legal frameworks continue to be problematic if a more culturally inclusive and holistic conception of heritage, such as cultural landscapes, is to be adopted. Further, while the recognition of native title has led to a re-examination of many fundamental legal principles, reexamination of our western legal constructs remains incomplete. One of the crucial areas yet to be fully worked through is how to accommodate western dualistic notions of the relationship between people and the natural environment with the legal requirements to establish native title. The need for accommodation has direct practical ramifications in that many world heritage, national estate and other 'wilderness' areas are, or may be, subject to native title claims. Therefore, the thesis considers the need to re-assess western, scientifically derived conceptions of natural heritage as the prevailing principles for environmental preservation. Finally the thesis discusses the contingency of any legal ordering of the natural world. Western representations of nature have exerted tremendous influence upon the legal regimes that have regulated and ordered nature across the Australian continent. These classifications are embedded within a particular cultural narrative. Parts of the Australian natural environment that are designated as property, as natural heritage, as native title, or as cultural heritage do not achieve this legal characterisation due to any inherent value or features of the natural environment itself. These areas are not necessarily property or heritage or native title until incorporated within, or recognised by, western legal frameworks. As such, any decision to ascribe a given legal status to the natural environment as part of the legal ordering needs to be seen as involving issues of choice that have direct distributive justice implications.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Law
Arts, Education and Law
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Hogarth, Jane T. "The politics of World Heritage listing in South Australia /." Title page, table of contents and summary only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envH715.pdf.

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Bratton, Andrew. "Digital documentation for integrated hazard assessment and sustainable management at dynamic natural heritage sites : the Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast Heritage Site." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680501.

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This thesis demonstrates how digital documentation and the development of integrated hazard assessment tools, can help guide the sustainable management of dynamic natural heritage sites. Terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), Geographical Information System (GIS) and Global Position System (GPS) technologies are used to digitally document the Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast World Heritage Site. This enables the development of GIS based integrated hazard assessment tools. These help site managers determine where specific processes occur, their likelihood of occurrence and probable impacts. At the Giant's Causeway the approach is used to assess the impact of slope failures on visitors and staff, and the impact of sea level rise on priority habitats and species. Results suggest that digital documentation, when coupled with integrated hazard assessment can make a tangible and practical contribution towards sustained physical access and practical conservation. A review of the issues and opportunities associated with the approach, result in the presentation of strategic guidelines which help managers deliver sustainable digital documentation and integrated hazard assessment projects.

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Vanderschot, Ingrid Mary. "The role of landowners in natural heritage systems planning, an Oxford county case study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0011/MM20537.pdf.

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Woodward, Margaret. "Overlapping dialogues: the role of interpretation design in communicating Australia’s natural and cultural heritage." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/982.

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This research investigates the development of interpretation design in Australia during the period 1980 – 2006, and its role in presenting natural and cultural heritage to audiences in visitor settings. It establishes Australian interpretation design at the intersection of two professional fields, interpretation and design. Where heritage interpretation originates from a background of spoken language, through narrative and storytelling, graphic and communication design have origins in visual language, communicated through images and text. This research positions interpretation design as a new field within design and traces its emergence as a hybrid of spoken and visual traditions of communication.The study gives visibility to this previously undocumented and un-theorised hybrid field of design and creates a thematic conceptual framework within which to locate its historical, conceptual and practical origins. In substantiating interpretation design as a new field, three avenues of enquiry were considered; documentation and analysis of the visual artefacts of interpretation design, locating interpretation design in a wider conceptual and professional context through literature reviews, and consultation with designers in order to understand the challenges and problems in this new mode of design. Further, to facilitate designers to continue to work effectively in highly collaborative, complex and cross-disciplinary professional environments a conceptual collaborative tool was developed for use by interpretation design project teams. The conceptual tool integrates the theoretical and practical findings from this research and is based on a pattern language approach first developed by Christopher Alexander et al (1977).The research is conducted from a design perspective, and integrates theoretical and professional knowledge from related fields into interpretation design practice. Through a progressively widening interrogation of the literature, professional contexts, and designed artefacts of interpretation design, this new area of design is examined from a number of perspectives, building up a multi-faceted framework for understanding its historical, conceptual and practical dimensions. A Grounded Theory methodology was adapted to develop the theoretical framework of this study and to gather a wide range of relevant data. The practical outcome of the research was developed using a Pattern Language methodology originating from a problem-based design approach in architecture (Alexander et al 1977) and underpinned the interpretation of data.Conclusions of the research found that despite invisibility within the discourse of Australian design, designers working in this specialised field of practice have, since the early 1980s, contributed to projects which shape ideas, attitudes and visual representations of natural and cultural heritage in Australia’s most widely visited and valued sites. Designer’s practice is identified as part of an ongoing process of both contributing to Australian cultural narrative and being influenced by the legacy of culture. Contemporary interpretation design is highly cross-disciplinary and collaborative, characterised by a differentiated professional practice with dispersed networks of stakeholders. While interpretation design is located within a larger framework of the professional practice of interpretation, there exists many opportunities to enrich and better inform designers by integrating wider pools of knowledge that intersect the activities of interpretation, including education, tourism, visitor studies and psychology.

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Godden, Lee, and n/a. "Nature as Other: The Legal Ordering of the Natural World: Natural Heritage Law and Its Intersection With Property Law and Native Title." Griffith University. Griffith Law School, 2000. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050831.095124.

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This thesis argues that the legal ordering of the natural environment represents a culturally contingent 'order of things'. Within this process of categorisation, Nature is constructed as an 'other' to the human subject. This opposition allows nature to be conceived as either an object of control, as found in property law, or as a wilderness to be preserved apart from human society. This latter view is implicit to the principles informing early environmental laws for the protection of natural heritage in international law and within Australia. More recently, this distinctively western legal ordering has been challenged to be more culturally inclusive and to include concepts that incorporate human interaction with the natural environment. In making this argument, the thesis adopts a theoretical framework derived from Foucault's 'Order of Things'. Modem western understanding of the natural environment is directly informed by western science. Scientific discourses, with origins in the Enlightenment, have been extremely influential in determining the legal ordering of the natural environment. In this context, the thesis provides an overview of the conceptual shift from a pre-scientific, organic conception of the relationship between people and nature to a people/nature dichotomy that persists as the nature/culture meta-narrative in modern society. The rise of a more holistic conception of the natural environment, based in ecological principles, has only partially displaced the latter view. The thesis also examines the manner in which property law constitutes the 'proper' order of the natural world within western culture. The bundle of rights concept, implicit to modern conceptions of property, finds resonances in western scientific understanding of the natural world. In particular, property law replicates the subject /object distinction that is central to modern western thought. The positing of nature as an object of control through the property relationship has been a resilient ordering of the natural environment. It has directly contributed to an instrumental perception of the natural environment. Indeed, the property concept was the central way of 'constructing' the Australian natural environment at law from colonisation to well into the twentieth century. The initial legal designation of Australia as 'terra nullius' allowed received English property law to form the template for ordering the occupation of the Australian natural environment by British civilisation. In the second half of the 20th century the wilderness ideal, in concert with ecological 'balance' concepts, gained currency in international and domestic law as the foundation for the protection of natural heritage. Natural heritage protection was a high profile aspect of early environmental laws in Australia. Thus the World Heritage Convention assumed an importance for natural heritage protection within Australia due to specific historical, political and constitutional factors. The adoption of 'holistic' definitions of environment in many pieces of Australian legislation has served to partially displace the instrumental, proprietary view of nature. However, the legal recognition of natural heritage, when based around wilderness ideals, remains predicated upon the western people/nature dichotomy. More recently, reforms to early environmental laws have been instituted and case law reveals a state of flux in how natural heritage areas are to be identified and valued. The traditional western legal constructions of nature have served to occlude Aboriginal and Tones Strait Islander peoples' relationships with 'country'. Such legal frameworks continue to be problematic if a more culturally inclusive and holistic conception of heritage, such as cultural landscapes, is to be adopted. Further, while the recognition of native title has led to a re-examination of many fundamental legal principles, reexamination of our western legal constructs remains incomplete. One of the crucial areas yet to be fully worked through is how to accommodate western dualistic notions of the relationship between people and the natural environment with the legal requirements to establish native title. The need for accommodation has direct practical ramifications in that many world heritage, national estate and other 'wilderness' areas are, or may be, subject to native title claims. Therefore, the thesis considers the need to re-assess western, scientifically derived conceptions of natural heritage as the prevailing principles for environmental preservation. Finally the thesis discusses the contingency of any legal ordering of the natural world. Western representations of nature have exerted tremendous influence upon the legal regimes that have regulated and ordered nature across the Australian continent. These classifications are embedded within a particular cultural narrative. Parts of the Australian natural environment that are designated as property, as natural heritage, as native title, or as cultural heritage do not achieve this legal characterisation due to any inherent value or features of the natural environment itself. These areas are not necessarily property or heritage or native title until incorporated within, or recognised by, western legal frameworks. As such, any decision to ascribe a given legal status to the natural environment as part of the legal ordering needs to be seen as involving issues of choice that have direct distributive justice implications.

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MARTINA, ANDREA. "Virtual Heritage: new technologies for edutainment." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2541502.

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Cultural heritage represents an enormous amount of information and knowledge. Accessing this treasure chest allows not only to discover the legacy of physical and intangible attributes of the past but also to provide a better understanding of the present. Museums and cultural institutions have to face the problem of providing access to and communicating these cultural contents to a wide and assorted audience, meeting the expectations and interests of the reference end-users and relying on the most appropriate tools available. Given the large amount of existing tangible and intangible heritage, artistic, historical and cultural contents, what can be done to preserve and properly disseminate their heritage significance? How can these items be disseminated in the proper way to the public, taking into account their enormous heterogeneity? Answering this question requires to deal as well with another aspect of the problem: the evolution of culture, literacy and society during the last decades of 20th century. To reflect such transformations, this period witnessed a shift in the museum’s focus from the aesthetic value of museum artifacts to the historical and artistic information they encompass, and a change into the museums’ role from a mere "container" of cultural objects to a "narrative space" able to explain, describe, and revive the historical material in order to attract and entertain visitors. These developments require creating novel exhibits, able to tell stories about the objects and enabling visitors to construct semantic meanings around them. The objective that museums presently pursue is reflected by the concept of Edutainment, Education + Entertainment. Nowadays, visitors are not satisfied with ‘learning something’, but would rather engage in an ‘experience of learning’, or ‘learning for fun’, being active actors and players in their own cultural experience. As a result, institutions are faced with several new problems, like the need to communicate with people from different age groups and different cultural backgrounds, the change in people attitude due to the massive and unexpected diffusion of technology into everyday life, the need to design the visit by a personal point of view, leading to a high level of customization that allows visitors to shape their path according to their characteristics and interests. In order to cope with these issues, I investigated several approaches. In particular, I focused on Virtual Learning Environments (VLE): real-time interactive virtual environments where visitors can experience a journey through time and space, being immersed into the original historical, cultural and artistic context of the work of arts on display. VLE can strongly help archivists and exhibit designers, allowing to create new interesting and captivating ways to present cultural materials. In this dissertation I will tackle many of the different dimensions related to the creation of a cultural virtual experience. During my research project, the entire pipeline involved into the development and deployment of VLE has been investigated. The approach followed was to analyze in details the main sub-problems to face, in order to better focus on specific issues. Therefore, I first analyzed different approaches to an effective recreation of the historical and cultural context of heritage contents, which is ultimately aimed at an effective transfer of knowledge to the end-users. In particular, I identified the enhancement of the users’ sense of presence in VLE as one of the main tools to reach this objective. Presence is generally expressed as the perception of 'being there', i.e. the subjective belief of users that they are in a certain place, even if they know that the experience is mediated by the computer. Presence is related to the number of senses involved by the VLE and to the quality of the sensorial stimuli. But in a cultural scenario, this is not sufficient as the cultural presence plays a relevant role. Cultural presence is not just a feeling of 'being there' but of being - not only physically, but also socially, culturally - 'there and then'. In other words, the VLE must be able to transfer not only the appearance, but also all the significance and characteristics of the context that makes it a place and both the environment and the context become tools capable of transferring the cultural significance of a historic place. The attention that users pay to the mediated environment is another aspect that contributes to presence. Attention is related to users’ focalization and concentration and to their interests. Thus, in order to improve the involvement and capture the attention of users, I investigated in my work the adoption of narratives and storytelling experiences, which can help people making sense of history and culture, and of gamification approaches, which explore the use of game thinking and game mechanics in cultural contexts, thus engaging users while disseminating cultural contents and, why not?, letting them have fun during this process. Another dimension related to the effectiveness of any VLE is also the quality of the user experience (UX). User interaction, with both the virtual environment and its digital contents, is one of the main elements affecting UX. With respect to this I focused on one of the most recent and promising approaches: the natural interaction, which is based on the idea that persons need to interact with technology in the same way they are used to interact with the real world in everyday life. Then, I focused on the problem of presenting, displaying and communicating contents. VLE represent an ideal presentation layer, being multiplatform hypermedia applications where users are free to interact with the virtual reconstructions by choosing their own visiting path. Cultural items, embedded into the environment, can be accessed by users according to their own curiosity and interests, with the support of narrative structures, which can guide them through the exploration of the virtual spaces, and conceptual maps, which help building meaningful connections between cultural items. Thus, VLE environments can even be seen as visual interfaces to DBs of cultural contents. Users can navigate the VE as if they were browsing the DB contents, exploiting both text-based queries and visual-based queries, provided by the re-contextualization of the objects into their original spaces, whose virtual exploration can provide new insights on specific elements and improve the awareness of relationships between objects in the database. Finally, I have explored the mobile dimension, which became absolutely relevant in the last period. Nowadays, off-the-shelf consumer devices as smartphones and tablets guarantees amazing computing capabilities, support for rich multimedia contents, geo-localization and high network bandwidth. Thus, mobile devices can support users in mobility and detect the user context, thus allowing to develop a plethora of location-based services, from way-finding to the contextualized communication of cultural contents, aimed at providing a meaningful exploration of exhibits and cultural or tourist sites according to visitors’ personal interest and curiosity.

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Oliveira, Camila Silva de. "Lago Igapó II, Londrina (PR): natureza, história e afeto no campo do patrimônio cultural." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-23102018-173158/.

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Esta dissertação de mestrado tem como objetivo investigar a constituição física e simbólica do Lago Igapó II, localizado na área urbana de Londrina (PR), reconhecendo nele um patrimônio cultural dos londrinenses. Primeiramente, buscamos construir uma narrativa para o objeto, abordando momentos que seriam importantes para o seu entendimento como um patrimônio e que possibilitassem compreender a relação urbano versus natureza ao longo da história da cidade. Em seguida, procuramos identificar e analisar de que maneira e em que medida os vetores -- poder público, sociedade civil e iniciativa privada --, por meio de parcerias e embates, incidiram sobre o Igapó II, fazendo com que a paisagem fosse incorporada ao processo de verticalização, ao mesmo tempo em que o próprio objeto era transformado em área de lazer e defendido como uma porção de natureza na cidade. Por fim, investigamos a natureza na esfera do patrimônio cultural por meio dos valores que a sociedade atribui ao Igapó II. São explorados seus valores ambiental, histórico e afetivo, fundamentados em referências bibliográficas, em algumas redes sociais virtuais e, sobretudo, em questionários aplicados aos frequentadores do lago e do aterro. De modo abrangente, a pesquisa busca desnaturalizar valores consolidados nesse campo e propõe uma perspectiva do patrimônio não como objeto colecionável e/ou tombado, mas como vivências, como algo que não pontua, mas que permeia a cidade, tendo como foco não as coisas, mas as pessoas.
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the physical and symbolic constitution of Igapó II Lake, located in the metropolitan area of Londrina, Paraná, recognizing it as an affective heritage site for locals. In the first section, I seek to construct a narrative for the subject matter, mentioning moments in time that played an important part in it being conceived of as heritage, and which allowed for a better understanding of the relationship between urban and natural elements throughout the city\'s history. The second part focuses on identifying and analyzing how, and to what extent, the different players--government, civil society and the private sector--acted upon Igapó II through partnerships and conflicts, helping incorporate its landscape into the city\'s vertical turn while at the same time transforming the lake into a leisure destination and defending it as a patch of nature in the city. Finally, I investigate the role of nature in the context of cultural heritage by looking at the values that society places on Igapó II. The lake\'s environmental, historic and affective values are explored, based on the literature reviewed, on some virtual social networks and, above all, on questionnaires answered by visitors to the lake and the surrounding park, built on reclaimed land. In a comprehensive manner, the research seeks to revisit deeply held values in this field, and proposes a perspective on heritage that recognizes it not as collectible and/or protected objects, but rather as experiences; not as an attraction, but as something that pervades the city; with a focus on people, and not on things.

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Chambers, Fiona. "Community participation in environmental planning and management : the Natural Heritage Trust and Local Agenda 21 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envc444.pdf.

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Lundeen, Melissa. "Museum education: Creation, implementation, and evaluation of a web-based Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67941/.

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Evaluation of museum audiences both in their physical and web-based spaces is a necessary component of museum education. For smaller museums without the personnel or knowledge to create a website and evaluate the on-line audience, using a web-based learning tool may be able to help these museums properly maintain an online site. A web-based Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum (WBEFNHM) was created during the 2008 fall semester at the University of North Texas. The site included photographs and information from specimens housed within the physical Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum. The site was available to three non-science majors' biology laboratory courses, and three science majors' biology laboratory courses during the 2009 spring and fall semesters. Student use of the WBEFNHM was tracked and found no significant difference between the amount of time science majors and non-majors spent on the site. This evaluation helps in understanding future use of an online EFNHM.

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Hippolyte, Vernice Camilla. "World Heritage Status, Governance and Perception in the Pitons Management Area, St.Lucia." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4904.

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There are currently 962 geographic sites in the world that have been classified as World Heritage. World Heritage is a unique concept, privy to and defined by UNESCO-- the United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization, one of the specialized agencies and autonomous organizations established within the UN-United Nations system. World Heritage is governed by an international treaty called the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972 (The `Convention'). The inscription of a World Heritage Site or designation of World Heritage Status is highly coveted and considered in UNESCO parlance to be of "Outstanding Value to Humanity." There are only 4 heritage property sites of English-speaking islands in the Caribbean basin, one of which is located on the island of St. Lucia called The Pitons Management Area (PMA). The PMA comprises 2902 hectares of protected marine and terrestrial property inscribed in 2004. In 2008, the island faced the threat of placement on UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger (LWHD) for breaches of the Convention. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of World Heritage Status from three identified stakeholders: UNESCO, the St. Lucian national government and the local Soufrière township-home of the PMA. This was an exploratory attempt at gauging perceptions of local voices on World Heritage Status as it relates to the PMA and the island's classification as a small-island developing state (SIDS). Using political ecology as a theoretical framework for analyzing the role of power relationships in this case study, this research revealed that there is an overall lack of communication between the Soufrière community and the national government regarding education and sensitizing about the World Heritage program mandates and incorporating the local citizenry in the protection of their heritage. The majority of the local participants' support for World Heritage Status on the island of St. Lucia was dependent on perceptions of increased income and employment opportunities associated with World Heritage as a global construct and narrative. This research also showed concerns of UNESCO and the St. Lucian national government to be at odds with the 1972 Convention. Results indicated that the varied perceptions of the three stakeholder groups are based on the prioritized interests of each and incommensurate with the aims of protecting the PMA's heritage for posterity.

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Clarke, Cailin R. "A method for natural heritage areas interpretive planning applied to the Trent University Nature Areas, Ontario." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0017/MQ48570.pdf.

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Landim, José Jorge Viriato Mendes. "Serra Malagueta( Santiago de Cabo Verde): estratégias de conservação e valorização do património." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15778.

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Com esta dissertação, pretende – se, em primeiro lugar, dar a conhecer Serra Malagueta enquanto Parque Natural, um meio geográfico cujo área de dois mil e seiscentos hectares e uma altitude de cerca de mil metros, tendo na sua dependência 579 habitantes, sendo, 290 masculinos e 289 femininas repartidas, aproximadamente, em 74 agregados e abarcando parte de três concelhos: Santa Catarina, Tarrafal e São Miguel, sendo este último de maior abrangência. Trata-se de uma área que apresenta uma enorme biodiversidade, mas também possui um património cultural, material e imaterial, de relevo. É neste tipo de regiões que se coloca a premência e necessidade de uma relação sustentável entre o homem, o ambiente e o património. Além de observar as características patrimoniais da região, importa perceber as dificuldades que se levantam a sua preservação e conservação, pelo que se destacam os fatores ou conjunto de fatores que estão intimamente ligados aos jogos de interesses, vários, e que a preservação e conservação desse património dependem da harmonização da tríade ambiente/natureza, a sociedade e o económico. Finalmente, impõe-se a análise das questões relativas à valorização do Parque, a sua preservação e conservação numa perspetiva de integração ambiental, social e económico sustentável, estribadas num conjunto de estratégias e que poderão ajudar a gerir conflitos, garantindo, também, a valorização de Serra Malagueta enquanto Património; ABSTRACT:This dissertation aims firstly, to inform Malagueta while Sierra Natural Park, with geographic area of two thousand six hundred acres and an altitude of a thousand meters, and its dependence on the 579 being, 290 male and 289 female split approximately in 74 households and covering part of three counties: Santa Catarina, and São Miguel Tarrafal, the latter being a larger scop inhabitants. This is an area that presents an enormous biodiversity but also has a cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of relief. It is this type of regions which arises the urgency and necessity of a sustainable relationship between man, the environment and heritage. Besides looking at the specs sheet of the region is important to understand the difficulties that arise preservation and conservation, by highlighting the factors or combination of factors that are closely related to games of interest, multiple, and the preservation and conservation of this assets depend on the harmonization of the triad environment / nature, society and economy. Finally, it must be the analysis of issues related to the valuation of the Park, its preservation and conservation perspective of integration in environmental, social and economic development, supported and a set of strategies that can help manage conflicts, ensuring also the recovery Sierra Malagueta while Heritage.

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Bisi, Hélène. "Green extraction of high added-value compounds from heritage plants." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Montpellier, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021MONTS085.

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Notre région est riche d'une grande variété de végétaux dont la majorité n'ont pas été étudiés et encore moins exploités. Si nombre d’articles scientifiques s’intéressent à des plantes récoltées dans des pays plus exotiques, certaines espèces qui nous entourent sont étonnamment négligées. Ces travaux de thèse se sont ainsi attachés à mettre en valeur deux végétaux oubliés, à fleurs odorantes, abondamment présents dans la région montpelliéraine : l’Elaeagnus × submacrophylla Servett., un arbuste horticole et la Coronilla glauca L. ou coronille glauque, un sous-arbrisseau sauvage. L’étude a essentiellement consisté en l’éco-extraction de composés naturels et à l’évaluation de leur potentiel antioxydant.Les composés organiques des volatils floraux ont tout d’abord été identifiés par microextraction sur phase solide de l’espace de tête, mettant en exergue deux profils très différents : l’un plutôt benzénique et l’autre terpénique. Faisant suite à l’identification moléculaire des extraits éthanoliques foliaires et floraux d’Elaeagnus par chromatographie couplée à la spectrométrie de masse, une batterie de tests (tests ABTS, DPPH et ORAC) nous a ensuite permis de mettre en évidence une activité antioxydante in vitro intéressante, se rapprochant de celle du BHT, molécule synthétique communément utilisée en cosmétique. Les taux de composés phénoliques totaux (test de Folin-Ciocalteu) déterminés sont quant à eux du même ordre de grandeur que ceux décrits dans la littérature pour le thé vert ou le vin rosé. Des études complémentaires in cellulo (collaboration avec l’ICGM sur fibroblastes murins) sur l’extrait foliaire d’Elaeagnus confirment ces résultats, démontrant une activité antioxydante proche celle de la quercétine, molécule antioxydante modèle. Ces travaux pourraient potentiellement ouvrir la voie vers le développement d’un nouvel ingrédient cosmétique, pour une application topique contre le vieillissement cutané par exemple
Our region is a rich biodiversity reservoir especially when it comes to plants, most of which have not been studied, let alone exploited. If many scientific articles are interested in plants collected in more exotic countries, some species surrounding us are surprisingly neglected. This PhD work thus focused on two forgotten plants with fragrant flowers, abundantly present in the Montpellier region: Elaeagnus × submacrophylla Servett., a horticultural shrub, and Coronilla glauca L., a wild subshrub. The study mainly consisted in the green extraction of natural compounds and the evaluation of their antioxidant potential.The organic compounds of the floral volatiles were first identified by solid phase microextraction of the headspace, hence highlighting two very different profiles: one rather benzenic and the other terpenic. Consecutively to the molecular identification of leaf and flower ethanolic extracts of Elaeagnus by chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, a battery of tests (ABTS, DPPH and ORAC assays) allowed us to highlight an interesting in vitro antioxidant activity, similar to that of BHT, a synthetic molecule commonly used in cosmetics. The amount of total phenolic compounds (Folin-Ciocalteu assay) determined is of the same order of magnitude as those described in the literature for green tea or rosé wine. Complementary in cellulo studies (collaboration with ICGM on murine fibroblasts) on Elaeagnus leaf extracts confirm these results, demonstrating an antioxidant activity close to that of quercetin, the model antioxidant molecule. This work could potentially open the way to the development of a new cosmetic ingredient, for a topical application against skin aging for example

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Detoni, Sandro Francisco. "Natureza e patrimônio cultural: a geomorfologia como referencial metodológico no tombamento de áreas naturais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8135/tde-09082016-121625/.

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Ações de proteção da natureza engendradas nos órgãos responsáveis pela execução de políticas culturais, frequentemente, trazem à tona questionamentos sobre a extrapolação das dimensões e das limitações sobre o que deva se entender como patrimônio cultural. Entende-se que a natureza pode ser considerada como um dos objetos de defesa e de proteção na esfera cultural. O Conselho de Defesa do Patrimônio Histórico, Arqueológico, Artístico e Turístico do Estado de São Paulo, o Condephaat, por exemplo, apresenta inúmeras Áreas Naturais Tombadas (ANTs) na amplitude dos seus objetos de tombamento. Este trabalho analisou a incorporação da natureza às práticas de preservação do patrimônio cultural, sobretudo, ao considerar a paisagem como o pressuposto para o desenvolvimento de uma metodologia que justificasse o reconhecimento da natureza no universo das políticas culturais. Verificou-se a importância do atributo geomorfológico que, em grande parte dos tombamentos naturais, efetuados no Estado de São Paulo, constituiu-se como o estruturador da paisagem e se apresentou como o principal elemento simbólico para embasar a proteção da dimensão natural do ambiente. Por se tratar de um espaço territorial especialmente protegido, as ANTs poderiam ser consideradas como unidades de conservação da natureza, no seu sentido jurídico, ou seja, uma das categorias do Sistema Nacional de Unidades de Conservação da Natureza (SNUC). Por isso, efetuou-se o levantamento sobre o histórico da criação das diferentes tipologias de áreas naturais protegidas. Tais espaços, que foram concebidos, inicialmente, no contexto de um discurso preservacionista, diversificaram-se sob a influência teórica da vertente conservacionista, no qual o ser humano passou a ser considerado na constituição de novas categorias de manejo. Dessa forma, o estabelecimento de ANTs veio ao encontro de uma prática de preservação da natureza que se baseia na sua valorização cultural. A participação social na defesa e na criação desses espaços naturais no domínio cultural apresentou diferentes conflitos de interesse e foi procedida por um processo de desregulamentação, caracterizado por não respeitar a rica contribuição teórica e metodológica das experiências, até então, empreendidas.
Action plans for nature protection conducted by cultural policies agencies often bring some questions about the typological limits of cultural heritage. Nature can also be considered as a object of cultural protection. The Condephaat, for instance, has several nature areas considered as cultural heritage. This study analyzed how nature became an important element in cultural heritage practices, and how the landscape was considered as a methodology for recognition of nature in the field of cultural policies. Geomorphology was an important reference in the landscape structure in most of the nature heritages, in the State of São Paulo. The relief was considered as symbolic element for cultural protection. The nature heritage areas are territorial spaces with special protection, but these places not are conservation units, in legal sense, that is, a category in national conservation system of nature. Then, it was also studied the process of creation of the different protection nature areas. Initially, these areas were created based on a preservationist discourse. After, they were designed by a conservationist theory that included human occupation in creation of new management categories. Thus, the nature heritage areas in the cultural sphere are consistent with the current theoretical bases. Social participation in defense and for creation of these natural spaces presented conflicts of interest, and was preceded by a deregulation process that did not consider the rich theoretical and methodological contribution of the experience undertaken.

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Noack, Denise Helen. "The contribution of heritage agreements to conservation in the Murray Mallee of South Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envn739.pdf.

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Shum, Yuen-wah Ferna, and 岑苑樺. "Towards integrated heritage conservation in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31258384.

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Kittichaisaree, K. "The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention and protection of State interests in maritime natural resources : With special refeence to Southeast Asia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377840.

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Ozcakir, Ozgun. "Interpretation And Presentation Of Natural And Cultural Heritage Sites: Environmental Design Project For Goreme Open Air Museum." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614750/index.pdf.

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The main subject of the thesis is &ldquo
interpretation&rdquo
and &ldquo
presentation&rdquo
of cultural and natural heritage sites which is an important phenomenon providing sustainability and protection of the heritage sites. Interpretation and conservation are tightly associated to each other. Individuals will learn more about the heritage site by the help of interpretation and as a result of understanding
they will have an intention to protect the historic site more
and protection will ensure continuity of the site. Interpretation and presentation of heritage sites is put into the words in Turkish Legislation by the definition of &ldquo
Environmental Design Project&rdquo
in `Amendment Act No. 5226 Concerning to Revision of Legislation Called as Law Concerning to Conservation of Natural and Cultural Entities` in 2004. In the legislation, it is stated that Environmental Design Projects which propose strategies for effective presentation, control visitor use, provide promotion and advertisement, solve problems emerged as a result of current use and circulation and answer the needs of historic sites by contemporary tools and methods must be prepared for each heritage site in Turkey. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to define principles for effective interpretation and presentation on the selected case according to analysis and evaluations and then propose brand new comprehensive and complementary Environmental Design Project. The case selected in the thesis for the proposition of Environmental Design Project is Gö
reme Open Air Museum &ndash
GOAM in Cappadocia which is Turkey&rsquo
s third most visited open air museum after Ephesus in Izmir and Hierapolis in Denizli. The two main reasons for the selection of GOAM are absence of comprehensive and complementary Environmental Design Project in GOAM and insufficiency of current interpretive facilities and visitor services presented in the museum as indicated in the decisions of Nevsehir Regional Council for Conservation of Cultural Entities. Focusing on the aim, thesis is structured in three parts which are interconnected to each other as the theoretical background of the interpretation and presentation in the world and in Turkish legislations, analysis and evaluation of the selected case and finally preliminary decisions and project proposal. To conclude, &ldquo
Environmental Design Project&rdquo
is an important tool for understanding the significance of the museum and providing easygoing and enjoyable visit for the museum visitors according to the values, problems and potentials of GOAM. In that respect, proposing environmental design project is critical in order to satisfy visitor needs during their museum visit and provide safeguarding of GOAM.

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Scifoni, Simone. "A construção do patrimônio natural." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-27122006-104748/.

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Este trabalho discute o significado da proteção do patrimônio natural no processo de produção do espaço geográfico do litoral norte paulista. Parte inicialmente da apresentação da trajetória de construção da idéia de patrimônio natural e das políticas públicas para a sua proteção, em diferentes esferas (nos planos internacional, federal e regional). Procura demonstrar, de um lado, que essa proteção ? que se deu via tombamento da Serra do Mar ? foi instituída para fazer frente à urbanização acelerada do litoral nos anos 1980 e, de outro lado, que ela foi incorporada à produção espacial, passando a representar uma nova condição para o processo. A proteção da natureza tornou-se uma condição necessária à reprodução do papel que o litoral norte desempenha na divisão espacial do trabalho da metrópole paulista: o de zona de veraneio de determinados segmentos sociais. A proteção da natureza aparece, ao mesmo tempo, como produto do urbano e como condição para sua reprodução.
This job is about the meaning of the natural heritage protection, in the process of the geographical space production of the São Paulo\'s north coast. It begins at the presentation of the construction course of the natural property idea and public policies its protection in different levels (international, federal and regional). It aims at showing, from one side, that this protection - reached by land register at Serra do Mar - was stablished to face rapid coast urbanization in the 1980\'s and, in the other side, that it was incorporated to spacial production, representing now a new condition to the process. Nature protection became a vital condition to the preservation of the role played by the north coast in the spacial division of work in the São Paulo metropolis: the one of summer resort for some social segments. The protection of the nature can be seen, either, as a product of the urban and a condition to its preservation.

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Fraser, Barbara Kristine. "The efficacy of the World Heritage Convention as a planning tool for the rigorous protection of natural sites." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25878.

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People interested in the protection of some areas of land from consumptive use and/or resource extraction have been concerned in recent years because few new areas have been set aside under the protection methods available. As well, even land which has been designated for protection is being threatened with reductions in the strength of that protection so as to permit extensive resource use. The need arose for an administrative method to ensure the long-term, rigorous protection of land. The purpose of the thesis is to evaluate the efficacy of one method which professes to offer rigorous protection, that is, the World Heritage Convention, in relation to the Canadian Rockies region. The World Heritage Convention is a multilateral, international convention which provides international recognition of universally significant natural and cultural heritage, and has been administered under Unesco's auspices since its signing in 1972. Each nation party to the Convention retains sovereignty over World Heritage Sites on their territory, but they are obliged to ensure adequate long-term protection. The Rockies region is currently subject to numerous resource threats, including issues arising from the Four Mountain Parks planning process, the impact of coal, oil and gas development, and a change in the policy for resource management of the Eastern Slopes. The Convention is evaluated against ten criteria which were derived from an examination of the rationales for land protection. Traditional criteria for the evaluation of decision making processes are rejected in favour of independently derived criteria because of an emphasis on the outcomes of resource management decision making, rather than on the processes. The criteria are broadly categorized as including the types of permitted activities, the inclusiveness of the purpose(s) for which the site is designated, the strength of protection, and its implementability. The use of the World Heritage Convention in the Gordon-Upon-Franklin River dam development threat by Tasmania, Australia is characterized as an example of how the World Heritage Convention may be used to focus domestic and international attention and opprobrium for threatened areas. On the basis of this study several conclusions can be drawn regarding the World Heritage Convention's efficacy in enhancing rigorous protection of the Canadian Rockies. The Convention does not offer the level of rigorous protection which is argued for in the thesis because of the permission of some resource extraction and motorized recreation and the lack of a formal monitoring procedure. Nevertheless, it is concluded that it offers more advantages than disadvantages. The advantages include the conferral of prestige and international recognition on the nation and site nominated, a reduced susceptibility to political/financial expediency, the presence of informal monitoring of site quality by the IUCN, and the ultimate leverage (and the resulting political ramifications) of delisting for ensuring the ongoing, durable, protection of definable sites. Additional positive features of participation at the international level are also important for developed countries like Canada: principally this refers to suasion and leverage in the third world for protection of globally significant biomes (e.g., tropical rainforests).
Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Lilley, Susan Margaret. "The socio-technical production of GIS knowledges : the discursive construction of bodies and machines at Scottish Natural Heritage." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28433.

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This thesis focuses on the situated use of Geographic Information system (GIS) in one government organisation - Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) - in order to explore the mutually productive and complex relationships between the social and the technical. The account is located within science and technology studies (STS) and feminist theories, both of which challenge notions of technical determinism and the neutrality of science and technology, suggesting instead that technology artefacts are products of complementary and competing discourses, and their limits. These theories, which are reviewed in Chapter One, are utilised to illustrate that GIS is a boundary object that is co-constructed as an object of knowledge and as a technological artefact through the messy nexus of social relations in which it is practised, whilst it concurrently actively contributes to the production of the social. In-depth interviews were conducted with staff who had recently been trained to use GIS as part of a major GIS implementation strategy in SNH. The methodology is described in Chapter Two. The interview transcripts were subjected to discourse analysis, in order to explore how the practice of GIS co-constructs fluid technologies, bodies and subject positions, which gain only the appearance of stability through their iterative citation in discursive practice. The empirical data are explored in three substantive chapters. Chapter Three examines the discourses which enable GIS, through the operation of power, to (re)produce particular geographies. Drawing on theories of the visual, it is argued that GIS, as a technology of realist representation, relies not merely on discourses of rationality, but also on its own inexplicability, which enables it to function as a site of spectacle and magic. Chapter Four focuses on the GIS user, exploring the practice of GIS as a site for the multiple production of bodies and subject positions. Haraway's figure of the cyborg is utilised to explore how users relate their bodies to the machine, and three possible subjectivities are proposed: the magician, the apprentice and the inept. The final substantive chapter explores how GIS emerges through the agency of both users and the machine itself, as they negotiate each other. It is argued that through these complex situated negotiations GIS is multiply embodied and constructed as a sentient other. The thesis concludes by examining the relevance of feminist geography to an understanding of these processes.

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Leitzke, Luciane Nolasco. "Micropropagação fotoautotrófica de amoreira-preta (Rubus spp.) e framboeseira (Rubus idaeus L.) com a utilização de luz natural." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2006. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/2112.

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The success of mass micropropagation of fruit trees may be reached by using plant tissues culture techniques, since this has showed efficient results on seedlings production with high quality and health. However, for the commercial viability of micropropagation application in the field of horticulture and how this might compete with traditional methods of propagation (cuttings, etc.), it is necessary to decrease production costs. Therefore, the development of photo-autotrophic micropropagation systems (production of micropropagules in sugar-free medium under environmental conditions that promote photosynthesis of the culture) with natural light appear as a possibility to improve the efficiency of micropropagation and to reduce costs. This research aimed the photo-autotrophic multiplication of blackberry (Rubus spp.) cultivar Xavante and raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) cultivars Batum and Heritage. Preliminary experiments was carried out to define the constitution of culture medium that provides better results, as on multiplication as on in vitro rooting of blackberry and raspberry, under conventional conditions of micropropagation. Then, using the best constitution of culture medium, it was done the study of the photo-autotrophic multiplication by using natural light. The MS medium enriched with BAP at 13 µM was the more efficient treatment on in vitro multiplication of leaves of blackberry Xavante and raspberries Batum and Heritage , inducing a higher number of leaves, shoots and buds. The best rooting condition for explants of the blackberry Xavante was reached by keeping the explants in WPM enriched with 2,5 µM AIB for a week followed by a regulator-free medium growth. Nevertheless, for raspberry Batum rooting, it is necessary the addition of 6,5 µM AIB. Under photo- autotrophic conditions, the aluminum foil was the best sealing material for the flasks. Regarding to in vitro multiplication for blackberry cultivar Xavante the best growth local was in greenhouse with the addition of 22 g L -1 sucrose to the medium; and for raspberry Batum was at 11,5 g L-1 sucrose but kept in growth room. For in vitro rooting of raspberry Batum cotton was the best sealing material, growth room and sugar-free medium were the best condition having a higher rooting percentage and root numbers per explants.
A cultura de tecidos é uma técnica que proporciona com sucesso a micropropagação massal de frutíferas e que já vem sendo utilizada com eficientes resultados para a produção de mudas sadias com alta qualidade. Entretanto, para que a aplicação da micropropagação na fruticultura torne-se viável comercialmente e possa competir com métodos tradicionais de propagação (estaquia, etc), é necessária a redução do custo de produção. Diante disso, o desenvolvimento de sistemas de micropropagação fotoautotrófica (produção de micropropágulos sem adição de sacarose no meio de cultura e sob condições ambientais que promovam a fotossíntese na planta) com o uso de luz natural surge como possibilidade que apresenta potencial para aumentar a eficiência da micropropagação e auxiliar na redução de seu custo. Assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo a multiplicação fotoautotrófica de amoreira-preta (Rubus spp.) cv. Xavante e de framboeseira (Rubus idaeus L.) cvs. Batum e Heritage. Dessa forma, foram realizados os estudos preliminares a fim de definir a constituição do meio de cultura que propicie os melhores resultados, tanto na multiplicação como no enraizamento in vitro de amorapreta e framboesa, sob condições convencionais de micropropagação. A partir daí, foi realizado o estudo da micropropagação fotoautotrófico com o uso da luz natural, utilizando a constituição do meio de cultura que propiciou os melhores resultados. Pelos resultados obtidos, conclui-se que o meio MS adicionado de BAP na concentração de 13µM é o tratamento mais eficiente na multiplicação in vitro de explantes com folhas de amoreira-preta Xavante e framboeseira Batum e Heritage , induzindo maior número de folhas, brotações e gemas. Para o enraizamento in vitro de amoreira-preta Xavante , o meio WPM adicionado de 2,5µM AIB e mantido por uma semana, seguido do cultivo em meio livre de regulador é o melhor meio de enraizamento; para framboeseira Batum , é necessária a adição de 6,5µM de AIB. Em condições fotoautotróficas o alumínio é o melhor modo de vedação dos frascos de cultivo. Para a multiplicação in vitro de amoreira-preta cv. Xavante , o melhor local de cultivo é a casa de vegetação e a adição de 22 g L -1 de sacarose no meio de cultura e de 11,5g L-1 para framboeseira Batum , mantida na sala de crescimento. Para o enraizamento in vitro de framboeseira cv. Batum, o algodão é o melhor modo de vedação dos frascos de cultivo; o melhor local de cultivo é a sala de crescimento, sem a adição de sacarose no meio de cultura, obtendo-se maior porcentagem de enraizamento, número de raízes por explante.

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Anschau, Magali Rambo. "ECOTURISMO E INTERPRETAÇÃO AMBIENTAL COMO ESTRATÉGIA DE DIVULGAÇÃO DO PATRIMÔNIO NATURAL E CULTURAL DE ROQUE GONZALES-RS." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2016. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9463.

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Touristic activities capable of highlighting the experiences and knowledge of natural and/or cultural characteristics should be included in tourism planning, enabling the development of important values for society. The landscape has elements of both natural and cultural expression, known as natural heritage and cultural heritage, which are seen as elements to be preserved for future generations. The natural heritage concerns the basis of memory by recording the past, which is essential for the establishment of cultural heritage.Comprehending what becomes significant in the landscape is understood as environmental interpretation and aims at the reading of natural and cultural heritage. Environmental interpretation is regarded as an interpretive treatment, which presses for the visitor's involvement with what is being interpreted. In this context, this study focused on the use of the touristic potential of the natural and cultural heritage of Roque Gonzales, whilst using interpretative instruments as a dissemination strategy of natural and cultural heritage. The municipality of Roque Gonzales is located in the northwest portion of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the missionary region. The proposed goal aimed to survey the natural and cultural heritage of Roque Gonzales. Based on this information, an interpretive plan for the sites of patrimonial relevance was conducted, thus collecting data on the existing infrastructure in the city and presenting a management statement for the sites of patrimonial relevance. In this way, we surveyed nine sites of heritage interest among the natural and cultural heritage sites: the Casa de Memoria (in restoration), Prainha (under construction), the Salto Pirapó, the Cordilheiras da Esquina Emanuel, Cerro Inhacurutum, the Cerro Inhacurutum lookout, Assunção do Ijuí, the Cruz de João de Castilho and the Cotovelo do rio Ijuí. In the Casa de Memória and Prainha, intervention is being carried out by Eletrosul and the municipality of Roque Gonzales, of which an analysis is being made of what is being proposed by the respective agencies. In the other heritage sites of interest, interpretive tools were proposed for the natural and cultural heritage according to the survey carried out. In addition to the survey of the necessary infrastructure for tourism development, a proposal for a tour guide for the municipality of Roque Gonzales was presented.In this sense , understand the dynamics and the meanings of the natural and cultural heritage of Roque Gonzales through environmental interpretation is critical to the dissemination and subsequent exploitation of this heritage process. In addition , this study extends the discussion of the relationship between society and nature through the promotion of natural and cultural heritage through interpretative instruments and ecotourism practices.
As atividades turísticas capazes de evidenciar as experiências e o conhecimento das características naturais e/ou culturais das paisagens devem ser inseridas no planejamento turístico, permitindo o desenvolvimento de valores importantes à sociedade. A paisagem possui elementos de expressividade tanto natural, como cultural, conhecidos como patrimônio natural e patrimônio cultural tidos como elementos a serem conservados para a sociedade e gerações futuras. O patrimônio natural concerne à base da memória através da inscrição do passado, fundamental para o estabelecimento do patrimônio cultural. A compreensão do que se torna expressivo na paisagem entende-se como interpretação ambiental e tem por finalidade a leitura do patrimônio natural e cultural. A interpretação ambiental se refere a um tratamento interpretativo, que prima pelo envolvimento do visitante com o que está sendo interpretado. Neste contexto, a abordagem desse estudo se deteve no aproveitamento do potencial turístico do patrimônio natural e cultural de Roque Gonzales, utilizando instrumentos interpretativos como estratégia de divulgação do patrimônio natural e cultural. O município de Roque Gonzales está localizado na porção noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, na região Missioneira. O objetivo geral proposto se deteve a inventariar o patrimônio natural e cultural de Roque Gonzales. A partir dessas informações, foi realizada a indicação de um plano interpretativo para os locais de interesse patrimonial (LIP), fazendo o levantamento da infraestrutura existente no município e apresentando uma indicação de manejo para os LIP. Dessa forma, foram inventariados nove LIP dentre o patrimônio natural e cultural, sendo eles: a Casa de Memória (em restauração), a Prainha (em construção), o Salto Pirapó, as Cordilheiras da Esquina Emanuel, o Miradouro para o Cerro Inhacurutum, o Cerro Inhacurutum, Assunção do Ijuí, a Cruz de João de Castilho e o Cotovelo do rio Ijuí. Na Casa de Memória e na Prainha a intervenção está sendo realizada pela Eletrosul e pelo município de Roque Gonzales, tendo sido feita uma análise do que está sendo proposto pelos respectivos órgãos. Nos demais LIP foram propostos instrumentos interpretativos para o patrimônio natural e cultural considerando o inventário realizado. Além do levantamento da infraestrutura necessária ao desenvolvimento turístico do município, foi apresentadauma proposta defolder turístico pra o município de Roque Gonzales. Neste sentido, compreender as dinâmicas e os significados do patrimônio natural e cultural de Roque Gonzales através da interpretação ambiental é fundamental para a divulgação e posterior processo de valorização deste patrimônio. Além disso, este estudo amplia a discussão da relação sociedadenatureza, através da divulgação do patrimônio natural e cultural por meio de instrumentos interpretativos e práticas ecoturísticas.

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Searle, Damien J. "Managing fragile environments : a case study of beach camping impacts on world heritage listed Fraser Island /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2000. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16275.pdf.

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Dudley, Rosemary Carolyn 1975. "Balancing values : development strategies that sustain the cultural heritage of rice paddies and the natural landscape in Thimphu, Bhutan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49803.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.
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This thesis focuses on the impending urban development of the terraced rice paddies in the valley surrounding Bhutan's capital city, Thimphu. It makes the argument that this unique landscape is deeply rooted in Bhutanese culture and its preservation can provide Bhutan with environmental, cultural and economic benefits. Escalating development pressures are such that the government cannot salvage the paddies at any cost, but sensitive development strategies can mitigate development's impact on the terraced land and the bodies of water that have supported life in the valley for centuries. This thesis argues that it is possible and necessary to absorb the current and predicted growth without obliterating the valley's previous use. The Royal Government's agendas to maintain Bhutan's living cultural heritage, sustainable "middle path" development strategy, and self-sufficiency cannot be fulfilled if agricultural land is not valued as a resource. Issues of government capacity, coordination between the Ministries, reliance on modern methods of development, and the exclusion of agricultural land in the nation's conservation efforts have prevented a holistic development plan from being realized. In response, this thesis offers six guiding principles that can help preserve the cultural, agricultural, and natural landscape. Stressing the environmental and cultural risks involved in rapid development of the traditional landscape, the principles offer recommendations to value traditional sources of livelihood, undeveloped land, environmentally and culturally sensitive development, and the inclusion of communities through participation. They provide sustainable development approaches that balance and recognize the cultural, environmental, and economic value of the farmland and existing housing settlements. An overview of international urban development precedents that demonstrate these principles offer insight on how Bhutan can remedy these risks and benefit economically. Last, specific mechanisms that can guide the government in their development process will make preservation of the traditional landscape realistic. In conclusion, Bhutan can provide culturally and environmentally sensitive urban development that does not detrimentally impact the landscape and its inhabitants.
Rosemary Carolyn Dudley.
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Schleider, Thomas. "Knowledge Modeling and Multilingual Information Extraction for the Understanding of the Cultural Heritage of Silk." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022SORUS280.

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La modélisation de tout type de connaissance humaine est un effort complexe qui doit prendre en compte toutes les spécificités de son domaine, y compris le vocabulaire de niche. Cette thèse se concentre sur un tel effort pour la connaissance de la production européenne d’objets en soie, qui peut être considérée comme obscure et donc en danger. Cependant, le fait que ces données du patrimoine culturel soient hétérogènes, réparties dans de nombreux musées à travers le monde, éparses et multilingues, pose des défis particuliers pour lesquels les graphes de connaissances sont devenus de plus en plus populaires ces dernières années. Notre objectif principal n’est pas seulement d’étudier les représentations des connaissances, mais aussi de voir comment un tel processus d’intégration peut être accompagné d’enrichissements, tels que la réconciliation des informations par le biais d’ontologies et de vocabulaires, ainsi que la prédiction de métadonnées pour combler les lacunes des données. Nous proposerons d’abord un flux de travail pour la gestion de l’intégration des données sur les artefacts de la soie, puis nous présenterons différentes approches de classification, en mettant l’accent sur les méthodes non supervisées et les méthodes de type "zero-shot". Enfin, nous étudions les moyens de rendre l’exploration de ces métadonnées et des images par la suite aussi facile que possible
Modeling any type of human knowledge is a complex effort and needs to consider all specificities of its domain including niche vocabulary. This thesis focuses on such an endeavour for the knowledge about the European silk object production, which can be considered obscure and therefore endangered. However, the fact that such Cultural Heritage data is heterogenous, spread across many museums worldwide, sparse and multilingual poses particular challenges for which knowledge graphs have become more and more popular in recent years. Our main goal is not only into investigating knowledge representations, but also in which ways such an integration process can be accompanied through enrichments, such as information reconciliation through ontologies and vocabularies, as well as metadata predictions to fill gaps in the data. We will first propose a workflow for the management for the integration of data about silk artifacts and afterwards present different classification approaches, with a special focus on unsupervised and zero-shot methods. Finally, we study ways of making exploration of such metadata and images afterwards as easy as possible

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Chapman, Kelly J. "Outcomes of a participatory approach to interpretive planning in the Shark Bay World Heritage area, Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/813.

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This thesis examines a participatory approach to interpretive planning, employed in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area, Western Australia. At the project outset relations between the conservation agency responsible for administering World Heritage and the local community were strained, and complicated by a history of conflict over the World Heritage listing and subsequent management of the area. A participatory approach to interpretive planning was adopted in the hope that doing so would achieve the following: improved relations between polarised stakeholder groups, increased community support for the plan and its implementation, and improved access to the variety of knowledge pools within the Shark Bay community. Effectively ongoing and integrating the interests of the area's polarised stakeholders meant that their social, political, organisational and disciplinary divisions had to be overcome. To do this, a novel participatory interpretive planning method was developed using action research. This method employed a combination of techniques, including a modified Delphi Technique based on indepth interviews, key informants, and direct prolonged emersion of the researcher in the community. The practical results of the project were the production of a stakeholder-derived communications strategy and interpretive plan for the World Heritage Area. These products embodied the collective social, cultural, economic and environmental interests of Shark Bay stakeholders, and included agreed-upon objectives, messages, stories for representing Shark Bar to the outside world. The participatory planning process also resulted in a number of instrumental and transformative outcomes including: surfacing of latent community issues, quieting of dominant rhetoric, identification of common values among stakeholders, collection of knowledge from multiple sources and contexts, equalisation of power between community segments, empowerment of marginalised community members, creation of social capital, and generation of support and commitment to plan implementation. In addition, the study demonstrated that participatory processes are vulnerable to cooption and manipulation by powerful stakeholders, and that the success of such processes relies more on the creation of trusting relationships (i.e. social capital) between stakeholders and facilitators than on the application of formulaic group techniques used to garner public input. With respect to interpretive planning, this project showed how a participatory approach to interpretive planning can be used as an ethical means to develop multiple narratives for interpretation that are just and legitimate representations of the community’s interests and stories. Other implications of this project, particularly in relation to the creation of social capital and horizontal and vertical relationships between community and agency groups, indicate that participatory interpretive planning can be used as an intervention in situations where conservation initiatives have resulted in conflict with local communities. Positive change is achieved through the creation of a common platform of values, mutual understanding and knowledge, from which further dialogue and reciprocal cooperation can take place. The evidence presented suggest that the stakeholder-centred approach to interpretive planning used in Shark Bay may form a useful basis for collaborative environmental management in a range of contexts and landscapes where new conservation initiatives are being contemplated. Lessons learned through application of this novel approach to interpretive planning may prove useful to interpretive professionals, environmental managers, governments and businesses attempting cross-disciplinary integration of multiple stakeholder interests.

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Misato, Marcelo Takashi. "Análise da gestão da Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) Tiête - SP: sobreposições e limitações nos tratos com o patrimônio natural e cultural." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/106/106132/tde-02082018-113310/.

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A Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) Tietê, criada em 1983 com o objetivo de proteger seus atributos naturais e o patrimônio cultural, vive hoje uma situação delicada em sua gestão, tendo em vista que a responsabilidade por sua administração deve ser compartilhada pela Fundação Florestal, órgão de proteção ambiental do Estado de São Paulo, e pelo órgão de proteção cultural, o Conselho de Defesa do Patrimônio Histórico, Arqueológico, Cultural, Artístico e Turístico (Condephaat). Esta pesquisa visou analisar como se deu o processo de criação dessa APA e como ocorre essa gestão, que expressa, entre outros problemas, as dificuldades de integração de entendimentos sobre natureza e cultura. Com esse propósito foram estudadas a conjuntura de criação das APAs no Estado de São Paulo; como esse contexto de criação implicou na gestão da APA Tietê, como foram considerados os atributos culturais e naturais nela presentes e em que medida persistem problemas para a participação dos atores sociais que estão envolvidos com o território. Para a execução da dissertação foram feitos levantamentos bibliográficos; análises documentais de dados da Fundação Florestal e do Condephaat; observação participativa em reuniões do Conselho Gestor da APA Tietê entre 2011 a 2013; além de entrevistas semiestruturadas com pessoas diretamente ligadas à criação da APA Tietê. Os resultados obtidos foram analisados sob a perspectiva de políticas públicas e permitiram considerações sobre o processo, bem como indicativas do que se espera para a gestão compartilhada dos atributos culturais e naturais da APA em questão.
The Environmental Protection Area (APA) Tietê, established in 1983 in order to protect its natural attributes and cultural heritage, now lives a delicate situation in its management, given that the responsibility for its administration must be shared by the Fundação Florestal, environmental protection agency of the State of São Paulo, and the cultural protection agency, the O Conselho de Defesa do Patrimônio Histórico Arqueológico, Artístico e Turístico (Condephaat). This research aimed to analyze how was the process of creating this APA and how is this management, expressing, among other problems, the difficulties of integrating understandings of nature and culture. With this purpose, we studied the situation of creation of APAs in the State of São Paulo; how that context creation involved in the management of APA Tietê, as we considered the cultural and natural attributes it complies, and the extent to which problems remain for the participation of social actors who are involved with the territory. For the implementation of the dissertation were made bibliographic; documentary data analysis of Fundação Florestal and the Condephaat; participant observation in meetings of the Management Council of APA Tietê between 2011-2013; as well as semi-structured interviews with people directly linked to the creation of APA Tietê. The results were analyzed from the perspective of public policy and allowed consideration of the process, as well as indicative of what is expected for the shared management of cultural and natural attributes of the APA in question

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Erguc, Ozdemir Gizem. "The Role Of Institutions In Promoting Public Interest Within The Context Of Cultural And Natural Heritage Conservation: The Case Of Gokova." Thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611217/index.pdf.

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This thesis discusses the role of institutions in promoting public interest within the context of cultural and natural heritage conservation. Due to the fact that the concept of public interest is controversial and may differ from one context to another, and that there are numerous institutions, the role of institutions in public interest promoting process limited to the context of conservation. A large number of public institutions develop policies that have significant implications for the conservation of cultural and natural resources in Turkey. The aim of these policies is to promote public interest by safeguarding natural and cultural assets. Moreover conservation institutions adopt different public interest approaches based on their establishment laws, therefore they carry out different activities to attain the objectives of their institutions. Consequently, promotion public interest by such institutions becomes even more ambiguous under these circumstances. Within this context, the Gö
kova case provides a good basis for the investigation of the ways in which public institutions conduct their activities in the quest to promote public interest.

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Mayard, Layne. "An examination of the relationship between the religious heritage and the natural environment of the Tibetan Buddhist hidden land called 'Pemakö'." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21612/.

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Environmentalists often turn to the world’s religions for guidance in conservation theory. Buddhism is frequently viewed as a religious tradition that embraces attitudes conducive to the preservation of nature. In contribution to scholarly dialogue, my doctoral thesis explores Tibetan Buddhist perspectives on the treatment of the natural environment. My research focusses on the Tibetan Buddhist religious culture of the sacred geography known as Pemakö. My thesis is guided by two principal research questions: the first asks about the nature of the relationship between Pemakö’s religious narrative and its environment. In response, I initially explore how practitioners have related historically to the region’s landscape with an analysis of the Treasure text Self-Liberation upon Hearing and other relevant scripture. Through ethnographic research I then study the narratives of recent pilgrims to the region. The second research question enquires about the implications of this relationship for Pemakö’s environment, and whether the Tibetan Buddhist theory that supports the religious tradition could have any influence on conservation of Pemakö’s ecosystems. My research reveals that planned construction of hydro-electric dams and existing trans-boundary tensions in Pemakö could conceivably cause widespread damage to the environment. The most immediate threat to Pemakö’s ecosystems, however, stems from local Tibetan Buddhist communities’ farming, hunting and poaching practices. Unlike contemporary Tibetan Buddhist environmentalist discourse that accentuates compassion in environmental activism, my study demonstrates that practitioner faith in the mythology surrounding Pemakö defines the spiritual relationship to the landscape. I show that this belief serves soteriological aims rather than instilling any inherent reverence for nature. I turn to two conservation projects from China and India that focus on the endangered snow leopard to demonstrate that a civic environmentalist approach to local conservation could incorporate Pemakö’s religious narrative to inform the region’s continued existence as a sacred geography.

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Gonçalves, Marta Alexandra Sereno. "O palácio como matriz de inscrição na cidade : a propósito do Parque Natural no Rio Seco." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7759.

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Mcclure, Kathryn Raeburn. "Development of new extraction methods for analysis of natural and synthetic organic colourants from historical and artistic matrices." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/29168.

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Abstract: In this thesis, an innovative approach for the extraction and clean-up of natural and synthetic textile dyes based on a recently developed ammonia extraction protocol and a novel Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextraction (DLLME) is presented. The thesis builds upon recent research highlighting the benefits of the ammonia-based extraction protocol for efficient extraction and preservation of the glycosyl moieties present in some types of natural dyes. This state-of-the-art extraction technique requires the use of a clean-up step to purify and preconcentrate the dye molecules for analysis. This clean-up step has never before been investigated or developed, and current methods rely upon traditional Liquid-Liquid Extractions (LLE), which are not well suited to the very small quantities of materials available for the analysis of artefacts of cultural heritage. The novel DLLME protocol presented by this thesis was developed in order to improve the recovery of natural dyes for analysis, and is also the first clean-up protocol to be developed for the analysis of synthetic textile dyes from cultural heritage matrices. Whilst a clean-up system has never before been applied to synthetic dyes within cultural heritage, pre-concentration and pre-treatment protocols are frequently reported for analysis of the same type of dyes used in food colourants. For this reason, this research adapts a DLLME method from the analysis of edible products, and combines this with the state-of-the-art ammonia extraction method reported in literature. DLLME protocols for both natural and synthetic dyes were developed and optimised first on known analytical standards, considered representative of the possible structures of natural dyes and synthetic azoic acid dyes respectively. The extraction recoveries of a variety of disperser and extraction solvents were analysed using HPLC coupled with targeted mass spectrometry. The optimised conditions were then coupled with the ammonia based extraction to ensure coherence of the methods. The results showed significant improvements in the recovery of natural dye analytes compared to current methods, as well as increased precision and efficiency. For synthetic dyes, results showed adequate recovery of analytes and allowed the ammonia-based extraction method to be applied successfully for the first time. After optimisation, the protocol for synthetic dyes was applied successfully to 15 samples (11 fibres, 4 powders) of suspected azo dyes from the Azienda Coloranti Nazionali e Affini (ACNA) synthetic dye collection housed at Sapienza University of Rome’s Museum of Chemistry. The novel protocol was performed after preliminary Raman screening to obtain some introductory information about the unknown samples in the collection. After application of the novel protocol, the samples were identified through untargeted analysis by HPLC-HRMS.

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Costa, Mônica Martins. "Avaliação do patrimônio natural do município de Goiás (GO) e sua potencialidade turística." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5371.

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The variety of tourism in natural areas is growing in importance since 1990, with ecotourism or nature tourism. Tourism incorporates aspects of the natural physical environment, from the perspective of Natural Heritage, adding a new logic, functionality and value in use and occupation of the environment. For the development of tourism in any location, taking into account the natural heritage, it is necessary to know its features and what is remarkable for tourism activities (like their geological heritage, geomorphological and phytogeographical). The city of Goiás (GO) was chosen as the spatial area of this work because of its natural resources of exceptional scenic value and, consequently, the potential for this tour. Intend of this study is to diagnose the natural heritage of the city of Goiás as subsidy to assess their tourism potential. Complementarily, it seeks to inventory the natural heritage of the city, in its geological, geomorphological, phytogeographical aspects and evaluate the tourism potential of this natural heritage, in the matters of accessibility, infrastructure, equipment and services. The methodology of the exertion consisted in: bibliographical and documentary survey; preparation of cartographic databases covering the municipality; appointments to public institutions; field surveys and development of an evaluative summary table of potential tourist spots and areas identified. It concludes that the city of Goiás has important natural heritage with potential for tourism practices and that this tourism can be an important factor for the preservation and conservation of geological, geomorphological and phytogeographical heritage in the city.
A modalidade de turismo em áreas naturais cresce em importância desde a década de 1990, com o ecoturismo, o turismo ecológico e o turismo de natureza. O turismo incorpora aspectos relativos ao meio físico natural, dentro da perspectiva do Patrimônio Natural, agregando uma nova lógica, funcionalidades e valorização no uso e na ocupação do meio ambiente. Para o desenvolvimento do turismo em qualquer localidade, tendo em vista o patrimônio natural, é necessário conhecer suas características e aquilo que seja notável para a exploração turística (como o seu patrimônio geológico, geomorfológico e fitogeográfico). O município de Goiás (GO) foi escolhido como recorte espacial deste trabalho por apresentar recursos naturais de excepcional valor paisagístico e, consequentemente, de potencial para esse turismo. O objetivo geral deste trabalho foi o de diagnosticar o patrimônio natural do município de Goiás como subsídio à avaliação do seu potencial turístico. Complementarmente, buscou-se inventariar o patrimônio natural do município, em seus aspectos geológico, geomorfológicos, fitogeográficos e avaliar a potencialidade turística desse patrimônio natural, quanto aos aspectos de acessibilidade, de infraestrutura, de equipamento e serviços. A metodologia para realização do trabalho constituiu-se em: levantamento bibliográfico e documental; confecção de bases cartográficas que abrangem o município; consultas a órgãos públicos; levantamentos de dados em campo e elaboração de um quadro-síntese avaliativo da potencialidade turística dos pontos e áreas identificados. Conclui-se que o município de Goiás possui importantes patrimônios naturais e que tem potencial para prática do turismo em áreas naturais e que esse turismo pode ser um fator importante para a preservação e conservação do patrimônio geológico, geomorfológico e fitogeográfico no município.

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Lamnadi, Yassir. "Ecotourism as a tool for natural and cultural heritage conservation: A case study of Alhoceima and Talassemtane National Parks from Northern Morocco." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670971.

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Aquest estudi investiga la sostenibilitat de l'activitat turistica dins de dos pares nacionals del Marroc (Alhoceima i Talassemtane). Es va desenvolupar un enfocament d'avaluacio a partir de criteris i indicadors europeus de sostenibilitat establerts (ESIT) que l'aplicacio especial d'indicadors addicionals suggeria o ja s'aplica als pares nacionals o arees protegides en general. Dividits en tres grups de criteris principals (ambientals, culturals i economics), els indicadors es van avaluar a partir de les troballes d'entrevistes semiestructurades realitzades amb els agents del turisme, enquestes de questionaris amb turistes i debats de grups tancats amb membres de la comunitat local.L'observacio de camp tambe es va utilitzar com a font d'informacio directa. Les conclusions d'aquest estudi van revelar que l'aspecte ambiental de la conservaciO dins dels dos pares nacionals pateix una escassetat considerable. Els plans de conservacio i la gestio del paisatge no estan actualment obsolets i no s'implementen del tot. La manca de plans d'us pUbfic i els controls de capacitat de carrega contribueixen a la degradaciO del medi ambient. Des de l'aspecte cultural, es reflecteix una certa millora en l'apoderament dels valors culturals locals corn a producte turistic; Tanmateix, els monuments culturals i els Ilocs estan en peril! de desaparicio a causa dels febles esforcos de manteniment i proteccio. Economicament parlant i a causa dels febles procediments de control oficial, els avantatges economics de l'activitat turistica son ambigus reflectint l'estructura del sector incoherent.
Este estudio investiga la sostenibilidad de la actividad turistica dentro de dos parques nacionales en Marruecos (Alhoceima y Talassemtane). Se desarrollo un enfoque de evaluacion sobre la base de los criterios e indicadores de sostenibilidad europeos establecidos (ESIT) cuya aplicaciOn especial de indicadores adicionales sugeria o ya se aplicaba a parques nacionales o areas protegidas en general. Divididos en tres grupos de criterios principales (medioambiental, cultural y econOmico), los indicadores se evaluaron en funcion de los resultados de las entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas con los interesados open el turismo, encuestas de cuestionarios con turistas y debates en grupos cerrados con miembros de la comunidad local. La observacion de campo tambien se utilize) como fuente de informacion directa. Los resultados de este estudio revelaron que el aspecto ambiental de la conservacion dentro de ambos parques nacionales sufre una escasez considerable. Los planes de conservacion y el manejo del paisaje generalmente estan desactualizados y no estan completamente implementados. La falta de planes de use Nalco y los controles de capacidad de carga contribuyen a la degradaciOn del medio ambiente. En el aspecto cultural, una cierta mejora se refleja en el empoderamiento de los valores culturales locales como producto turistico; sin embargo, los monumentos y sitios culturales estan en peligro de desapariciOn debido a los debiles esfuerzos de mantenimiento y protecciOn. EconOmicamente hablando y debido a los debiles procedimientos de control oficial, los beneficios
This study investigates the sustainability of the tourism activity inside two national parks in Morocco (Alhoceima and Talassemtane). An evaluation approach was developed on the basis of established European sustainability criteria and indicators (ESIT) which special application of additional indicators suggested or already applied to national parks or protected areas in general. Divided into three main criteria groups (Environmental, cultural and economic), the indicators were evaluated based on the findings semi-structured interviews conducted with tourism stakeholders, questionnaire surveys with tourist, and closed groups discussions with local community members. Field observation also was used a source of direct information. Findings of this study revealed that environmental aspect of conservation inside both national parks suffers from considerable shortage. Conservation plans and landscape management are usually outdated and not fully implemented. The lack public use plans and carrying capacity controls contribute to the degradation of the environment. On the cultural aspect, a certain improvement is reflected on the empowerment of local cultural values as a tourism product; however, cultural monument and sites are endangered of disappearance due to the weak maintenance and protection efforts. Economically speaking and due to the weak official control procedures, the economic benefits of the tourism activity are ambiguous reflecting the incoherent sector structure.

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Meliani, Inès. "La nature en ville, entre protection, communication et patrimonialisation : approches géographiques dans les territoires du Grand Lyon." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ENSL0829.

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À l’heure où la notion de ville durable s’inscrit au cœur des objectifs des politiques d’aménagement urbain, la nature revient sur le devant de la scène. Il en est ainsi pour ce qui concerne l’Agglomération lyonnaise où, dans leurs démarches visant à écrire la ville d’aujourd’hui et de demain, les acteurs confèrent à la « restauration » de la nature en ville une place majeure. En effet, alors que, longtemps, la présence de la nature dans les villes n’était regardée que comme l’un des éléments consubstantiels au tissu urbain, l’émergence des préoccupations écologistes dans le champ politique a, à partir des années 1990, changé la donne : aujourd’hui, les espaces de nature constituent l’une des pièces prépondérantes dans la panoplie des outils et des mesures mobilisés par les aménageurs pour répondre aux problématiques des villes contemporaines et concevoir la ville de demain. La question des relations entre ville et nature recouvre un champ sémantique complexe conduisant à soulever nombre d’interrogations, auxquelles la présente recherche tente de répondre. Comment et quand les politiques prennent-ils en compte la place de la nature dans la ville ? Au service de qui ? Au service de quoi ? Et à quelles fins ?Ce travail s’appuie sur deux études de cas, complémentaires l’une de l’autre. La première s’applique à analyser la façon dont les instances politiques lyonnaises communiquent sur la nature auprès de leurs administrés depuis vingt ans : de 1989 (élection de Michel Noir à la fonction de maire de Lyon) à 2009 (sous la mandature actuelle de Gérard Collomb).La seconde étude s’est appliquée à analyser les représentations, propres aux acteurs politiques, de la nature en milieu urbain : la patrimonialisation de la nature est apparue, simultanément aux préoccupations environnementales, comme un outil efficace pour prendre en compte la nature en ville
In the current epoch when the concept of the sustainable city is at the heart of urban development policy objectives, nature has returned to front stage. This is certainly the case with regard to the agglomeration of Lyon where, in their substantial effort to pin-point the city of today and tomorrow, the chief proponents confer a major role on the "restoration" of nature in the city. Indeed, for a long time, the presence of nature in cities was regarded as only one of several integral elements of the urban fabric, however, the emergence of ecological preoccupations in the political field has, from the 1990s, changed these circumstances: today, natural spaces constitute a predominant factor in the range of tools and actions mobilised by developers to meet the challenges of contemporary cities and to design the city of tomorrow.The question of the relationship between the city and nature covers a complex semantic field that leads to numerous investigations, which this present research attempts to answer. How and when do policies consider the role of nature in the city? At the service of whom? With what objectives? To what ends?This work is based on two case studies, each complementary to the other. The first seeks to analyse the means by which the political administrators of Lyon communicate the theme of nature to their constituents over a twenty year period: from 1989 (the election of Michel Noir to the office of Mayor of Lyon) to 2009 (under the current term of Gerard Collomb ) .The second study is applied to analyse representations made, specific to the political administrators involved, of nature within the urban milieu : the role of the heritage of nature becomes apparent, simultaneous with environmental concerns, as an effective tool to define nature in the city

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Rato, Miguel Rosalez Paulo. "Ocupações antrópicas em paisagens protegidas." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20346.

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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.
Assinalando o ponto mais alto de Portugal Continental, a Serra da Estrela destaca-se pelas suas paisagens, repletas de história e aspectos naturais únicos no país, capazes de proporcionar experiências únicas a quem por lá passa. Situado no interior do território nacional, este maciço rochoso funciona como uma espécie de farol em plena beira interior, que atrai visitantes, mas que demonstra incapacidade de os cativar a permanecer. A falta de coordenação e entreajuda entre as entidades reguladoras do território ocultam uma beleza por explorar e um conjunto de actividades que se podem desenvolver ao longo do ano, tais como, escalada, competições de BTT, aulas de Paddle na Lagoa Comprida, caminhadas pelas rotas da transumância e visitas guiadas às instalações militares subterrâneas na Torre. A Serra da Estrela tem muito mais vida para além da neve e as actividades que lhe estão associadas como produto de consumo para turistas. O desequilíbrio que existe entre a época fria e a época quente é um dos factores que mais contribui para a subvalorização da imagem e valores patrimoniais, tanto da própria serra, como das regiões envolventes. Deste modo, o presente trabalho procura contribuir para o reconhecimento da necessidade de se restabelecer uma ligação entre o homem e o território, que se foi perdendo com o tempo. Pretende-se chamar à atenção para a importância da preservação e valorização do património cultural e natural intrínseco na paisagem da Serra da Estrela, que tantas vezes se vê marginalizada. Palco de raros eventos naturais, o Parque Natural da Serra da Estrela, representa uma das maiores atracções turísticas nacionais, em grande medida devido à neve, responsável por maior parte do movimento turístico registado na serra. De forma a evitar a inactividade que se verifica durante as épocas quentes, procura-se elaborar um programa que promova novas actividades no local, mais concretamente, ao nível do planalto superior da Serra. Para isso, o projecto, prevê a delimitação de um percurso que passa pelas lagoas do planalto superior do maciço central, rematando-o na Torre - o principal ponto de atracção turística da região e com maior afluência de pessoas por ano. Aproveita-se a influência deste local, utilizando-o como sede de divulgação de informação e educação para as pessoas, de modo a que estas percebam a importância dos cuidados a ter com a paisagem, visando, recuperar o seu protagonismo através do desenvolvimento de um projecto que interaja de forma directa com o território.
ABSTRACT: Marking the highest point in mainland Portugal, Serra da Estrela stands out for its landscapes, full of history and unique natural aspects in the country, capable of providing unique experiences to those who pass by. Situated in the interior of the national territory, this rock mass acts as a kind of lighthouse in the middle, which attracts visitors, but demonstrates inability to captivate them to stay. The lack of coordination and mutual help between the regulators of the territory conceals an untapped beauty and a range of activities that can be developed throughout the year, such as rock climbing, mountain biking competitions, Paddle lessons at Lagoa Comprida walks on the transhumance routes and guided tours to the underground military facilities in the Tower. Serra da Estrela has much more life than snow and the activities associated with it as a consumer product for tourists. The imbalance that exists between the cold season and the hot season is one of the biggest factors to the undervaluation of the image and heritage values, both of the mountains itself and the surrounding regions. Thus, the present work looks to contribute to the recognition of the need to reestablish a connection between man and territory, which has been lost over time. The aim is to draw attention to the importance of preserving and enhancing the intrinsic cultural and natural heritage in the Serra da Estrela landscape, which is often marginalized. Stage of rare natural events, the Serra da Estrela Natural Park, represents one of the largest national tourist attractions, largely due to snow, responsible for most of the recorded tourist movement in the mountains. In order to avoid inactivity that occurs during the hot seasons, it is intended to develop a program that promotes new activities on site, specifically at the level of the upper plateau of the Serra. To accomplish this, the project foresees the delimitation of a route that passes through the lagoons of the upper plateau of the central massif, ending it in the Tower - the main tourist attraction in the region and with the largest influx of people per year. It takes advantage of the influence of this place, using it as an information and education dissemination point for people, so they realize the importance of taking care of the landscape, aiming to recover its role through the development of a project that directly interacts with the territory.
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Massing, Katharina. "Finding an ecomuseum ideal for Hainan Province : encouraging community participation in intangible cultural and natural heritage protection in a rural setting in China." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3344.

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Initiated in France by Hugues de Varine and George Henri Rivière in the late 1960s, the ecomuseum ideal represents a locally-based, holistic approach to heritage protection and sustainable development. China established its first ecomuseums in 1998 in Guizhou Province, as a tool to balance rural development and heritage protection in the economically-weaker ethnic-minority areas. Since then several variations of an ecomuseum-like ideal have been employed in different provinces. This research project analyses one of the newer approaches to ecomuseology in China, examining the current establishment of ecomuseums in Hainan Province, China. The focus of the ecomuseum ideal in Hainan, the strong connection between ICH and its ecological environments, is new in the Chinese ecomuseum approach. This research analysed the opportunities and challenges of this new ecomuseological approach in China with regards to the safeguarding of ICH within its natural environments; sustainable tourism and ecotourism development; and, community participation. Two of the six proposed future ecomuseums were chosen as case studies; namely Baili Baicun in Ding’an County and Binglanggu in Boating Li and Miao Autonomous County. The data collection process included a combination of literature review, the analysis of laws and guidelines, observation and qualitative interviews with the three main stakeholders of the ecomuseum establishment in Hainan Province: government officials; experts; and, the local population composed of members of the local Hainanese community and Li ethnic-minority members associated with the two case studies. This research makes a contribution to the field in several respects. It examines the ecomuseum in terms of safeguarding ICH within its natural environments in China. While there is already some literature that investigates ecomuseums and ICH protection in the country, their role in protecting ecological environments in China is largely ignored. This research concludes that a stronger interpretation and focus on natural environments is essential for ecomuseum-like approaches in China. In addition, this research argues that the current ecomuseum principles concentrate on a Western understanding of the ecomuseum ideal and are not applicable to the top-down developmental context of China. Therefore, the research suggests new ecomuseum principles for Hainan, placing a stronger emphasis on education and benefit-sharing.

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Varkalytė, Aistė. "Širvintų rajono savivaldybės gamtos ir nekilnojamojo kultūros paveldo objektų išsaugojimo vertinimas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110614_114152-21086.

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Lietuvoje sukurta daug įvairaus rango, paskirties, dydžio, skirtingos funkcinės paskirties saugomų teritorijų. Širvintų rajone saugomos teritorijos užima 4,2 proc. rajono ploto. Paveldo objektai – atskiri arba tankias grupes sudarantys gamtos ir kultūros paveldo objektai – kraštovaizdžio elementai, kuriems dėl jų vertės teisės aktais nustatytas specialus apsaugos ir naudojimo režimas. Tyrimas atliktas siekiant įvertinti minėtų objektų apsaugą Širvintų rajone. Šiame darbe atlikta norminių dokumentų, teritorijų planavimo, mokslinių darbų ir kitos aktualios literatūros analizė, nuvykus į Kultūrinį Kernavės rezervatą apžiūrėti paveldo objektai ir įvertinta jų būklė. Pagrindinis tokių objektų apsaugos tikslas – perleisti paveldą ateities kartoms. Vienas svarbiausių uždavinių paveldo objektų saugojime – atsakingas šių objektų stebėjimas ir jų būklės vertinimas. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad Širvintų rajono nekilnojamojo kultūros ir gamtos paveldo teritorijos yra geros būklės, nuolat vykdomi objektų būklės gerinimo darbai, nekilnojamojo kultūros paveldo objektų teritorijų naudojimas ir apsauga yra reglamentuota pakankama teisine baze.
Lithuania has created a lot of protected areas, which differ in ranks, purpose, size and function. In Širvintos district protected territories cover 4,2 percent of area. Heritage sites - individual or groups of natural and cultural heritage objects – are the landscape elements, which are protected by special statutory protection and recovery mode. Aim of the research is to evaluate the protection of natural and cultural heritage in Širvintos district. This work analyzes normative documents, planning, research papers and other relevant literature, presents results of on-site evaluation of heritage objects in Kernave Cultural Reserve. The main purpose of the protection of these objects is to conduct the heritage to future generations. This is achievable only with the help of responsible observation and evaluation of condition of these objects. The results show that in Širvintos district areas of immovable cultural and natural heritage are in good condition, regularly maintained. Protection and use of immovable cultural heritage objects are regulated by a sufficient legal basis.

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Bošková, Martina. "Kulturní dědictví v rozvoji obcí a regionů na příkladu Jihočeského kraje." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-3831.

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This thesis deals with cultural and natural heritage in the region of South Bohemia, in particular the relationship of cultural and natural heritage for tourism and joint action on the development of the region. The theoretical part is characterized by a general culture, the cultural and natural heritage, heritage conservation legislation and its financing in the Czech Republic, cultural tourism. It deals with the relationship of heritage conservation and tourism. The practical part of this work assesses the current state of cultural and natural heritage and exploit the potential for the development of tourism in the region. Finds the conditions for its further development and provides for limiting factors of development.

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