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\"\"Ellen Patat<\/em><\/p>\n

Sounds of Istanbul<\/p>\n

through Italian Travel Writing
De Amicis, Borgese, Alvaro<\/p>\n

979-12-82557-07-8<\/p>\n

Year: 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pages: 121<\/p>\n

Language: English<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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At a time when the sonic texture of urban life was only partially documented and rarely preserved in a systematic way, literature offered a particularly rich, even if mediated, form of acoustic testimony. This book listens to Istanbul through the ears of those who visited it. Drawing on the travel writing of Edmondo De Amicis, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Corrado Alvaro, it recovers a city alive with noise: the cry of street vendors, the echo of calls to prayer drifting across the Bosphorus, the clatter of traffic, the mingled voices of a metropolis poised between worlds and centuries. Without intending to do so, these writers became attentive observers of the city\u2019s auditory environment, their pages dense with impressions that no instrument consistently measured and that only fragmentary archives retain. Yet their testimony is not neutral. Every sound they record is filtered through cultural expectations, narrative conventions, and the particular estrangement of the foreign ear encountering the unfamiliar. To read them closely is to understand not only how Istanbul sounded, but how it was made to sound, shaped by imagination, ideology, and the long tradition of writing the East. Bringing together literary analysis and sound studies, this volume offers a first step toward a more systematic engagement with literary texts as sources for reconstructing the sensory dimensions of urban pasts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Geografia della Mobilit\u00e0 Aerea.<\/p>\n

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Rappresentazione, evoluzione, spazi e dinamiche del trasporto aereo contemporane<\/p>\n

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979-12-80064-88-2<\/p>\n

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Year: 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pages: 446;<\/p>\n

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This volume explores the spatial, social, and technological dimensions of contemporary air mobility through a geographical and transdisciplinary lens. Moving beyond the traditional conception of airports as mere transit spaces or \u201cnon-places,\u201d the study interprets them as complex social systems where infrastructures, digital technologies, and human practices intersect. Focusing on the Italian context\u2014largely unexplored compared to the Anglophone literature\u2014the research examines the evolution of air transport and airport spaces as laboratories for observing transformations in global mobility and territoriality.<\/p>\n

Through surveys and interviews with airport workers and institutional actors, the investigation highlights the coexistence of operational, cultural, and emotional dimensions within airport environments. The findings reveal that airports, while functioning as key nodes of global flows, also operate as community ecosystems in which belonging, cooperation, and local identity emerge. The study offers a critical re-evaluation of Aug\u00e9\u2019s \u201cnon-place,\u201d reframing airports as hyper-places (Lussault), where social, political, and economic dynamics converge.<\/p>\n

By integrating qualitative and quantitative data, the research underscores the strategic role of digitalization, sustainability, and governance in reshaping the air transport sector. It promotes a renewed understanding of airport space as a hybrid geography\u2014at once global and local, functional and symbolic, infrastructural and relational\u2014that reflects the complex interdependence between mobility, technology, and society in the contemporary world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Giuseppe Terranova<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soft Power and the Legacy of Humanism. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

Italy in the Cultural Geopolitical Arena<\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-87-5<\/p>\n

Year: 2025;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pages: 79;<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This book investigates the geopolitical significance of soft power in an era of global fragmentation, reinterpreting Joseph Nye\u2019s theoretical framework through the Italian case. In a world increasingly shaped by systemic crises, protracted conflicts, and new geographies of interdependence, cultural attraction is conceptualized as a strategic resource and as an alternative to coercive paradigms of power. Italy projects influence through a centuries-old reservoir of cultural capital rooted in the legacy of Roman civilization, the Renaissance, and contemporary diasporic networks. Italian soft power operates across transnational educational, symbolic, and diasporic circuits, sustained by a decentralized and reticular model of cultural diplomacy that strengthens Italy\u2019s agency within the international system. The study advances an interpretation of Italian civilization as a geocultural actor, the living embodiment of a diffuse humanism capable of generating symbolic proximity and cooperative engagement within a post-national order. Italy thus emerges as a form of gentle power: a credible mediator in an increasingly polarized and fluid geopolitical landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alberto Miccoli<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenua, la Terra-Madre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pluralismo giuridico e indigenizzazione del diritto fondiario in Polinesia Francese<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-77-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year: 2025;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: 176;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The area known today as French Polynesia \u2013 composed of five archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean \u2013 was settled between the 9th and 10th centuries AD during Austronesian migrations, and was later mapped by Europeans in the 18th century, with the arrival of the first missionaries in 1797. After initial interference with the local socio-political organization, it gradually became a French protectorate in 1842 and was progressively annexed to France starting in 1880. Since 1984, the territory has enjoyed internal autonomy status.<\/p>\n

The introduction of Western law into local social organization practices led to a slow transformation of the precolonial land tenure system. In terms of land ownership, the publication of the first written legal codes privatized and capitalized land ownership, legally stripping the land (Fenua) of its identity-based value and its genealogical connection with its inhabitants.<\/p>\n

These changes, however, clash with the strong resilience of the local population, which reinterprets European legal instruments and asserts the right to enjoy undivided property rights. This can be seen, for example, in Rapa Iti, where land is considered a collective good, and usage rights are granted by the council of elders to all those who can demonstrate a genealogical link to the island.<\/p>\n

This study therefore explores the complex process of the indigenization of law in French Polynesia, highlighting the survival and adaptation of native legal ontology characteristics.<\/p>\n

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Stefania Palmentieri<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Procida<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insularit\u00e0 e grandi eventi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-72-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year: 2025;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: 137;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: <\/strong><\/em>Italian;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small islands represent a significant area of study for geography, both due to the richness and integrity of their ecosystems and the complexity of their cultural heritage, which is often linked to a colonial past or shaped by continuous interactions with diverse populations. It is not uncommon for these islands to face major challenges in managing their territory, which is typically characterized by a limited volume of activities, a strong cultural identity, and the vulnerability of the natural environment. These conditions necessitate a targeted management approach that is sensitive to both development and conservation needs.
This study examines the case of Procida, which was designated the Italian Capital of Culture in 2022. Through a transdisciplinary methodological approach, including interviews with residents and stakeholders, it analyzes how this major event was managed, the opportunities it provided, and the challenges encountered. By exploring Procida\u2019s potential as a laboratory for innovation and sustainable development, this research aims to assess the implemented program and identify best practices that can serve as a reference for similar contexts. Even in the perspective of a major event, such best practices could help shape programs aligned with sustainability requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eleonora Guadagno<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvest Herstories
A brief essay on Women and Viticulture in Italy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-47-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year: 2024;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: 125;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This research provides an in-depth examination of the multifaceted roles of women in Italy\u2019s viticulture industry, focusing on the challenges, stigmatizations, and \u201cglassing\u201d processes they face. Women are depicted not merely as laborers but as creators and stewards of diverse, often \u201cmarginalized,\u201d spaces.
Moving the discussion from the EU\u2019s and Italian\u2019s normative frameworks and official data sources, the study maps the different associations and entities involved and advocating for women\u2019s roles in viticulture, analyzing both production and valorization on a national scale. It aims to offer a deeper understanding of the complexities which surround women\u2019s participation and challenges in the field of viticulture, laying the groundwork for future research and deeper reflection, especially in light of climate change effects.
In order to contribute to the field of geography, the research highlights the spatial dimension of the intersectional vulnerability faced by women in Italian viticulture. The idea is to inspect women\u2019s roles in the construction of alternative spaces, adding a crucial dimension (gender) into the understanding of the evolution of human geography and cultural landscapes. Despite a lack of literature and detailed data, the research intends to open the way for further inquiries and to introduce analytical elements to the existing debate. This approach is anchored in official statistics, observations, questionnaires, and interviews conducted since 2018. The results acknowledge the contributions of all participants, aiming to present a novel perspective within a heavily scrutinized domain, transcending prevalent marketing narratives associated with \u201cliberal feminism\u201d and stereotypes. The exploration presents a richly diverse context, characterized by varied experiences and narratives. The research does not seek definitive answers, but generally aims to define a new paradigm on the cultural, social, and environmental dimensions that construct societal \u201cspatiality.\u201d Ultimately, this essay invites readers to engage in a critical way with the intersectional dynamics shaping women\u2019s experiences in viticulture and fostering a deeper understanding of the diverse roles they play within this intricate ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Gaetano Sabato<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communities and Cruise Ship Tourism
A Geographical Perspective on the Cases of Palermo and Siracusa,
Sicily<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-69-1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year: 2024;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: 67;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ways in which a community (re)produces specific images of cruise ship tourism include cultural and physical (urban) landscapes, conflicts, strategies of resilience that semantize peculiar spaces through private (and public) narrations. The relationship between the host communities and the hosted tourists can be potentially conflictual or find forms of peaceful and\/or constructive coexistence.
The peculiar (re)production of private and public narratives that reflect ways of thinking and perceptions of spaces, Identity and Otherness is of great importance in this process. By using a cultural geographical approach, this book aims to investigate this dynamic. Starting from fieldwork conducted using participant observation and including some interviews this work aims to analyze the ways in which the communities of two cruise destinations in Sicily (Italy), Palermo and Siracusa, perceive the cruise tourism and the passengers who disembark as tourists, especially in the period of crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both of the two communities are exposed to cruises with a different maturity. The perceptions of the host
communities and their narratives are here reconstructed through the contextualization of cruise tourism in the two Sicilian destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Daniela Santus e Elisa Pugliese<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frammenti di paesaggio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geografia, turismo e sostenibilit\u00e0 in Germania<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-67-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year: 2024;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: 195;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: <\/strong><\/em>Italian;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Divided into eleven chapters, this volume aims to provide readers with a geo-cultural analysis of contemporary Germany from a multidisciplinary perspective, encompassing history, geography, and environmental challenges.
It is a journey with multiple stops: from Luther to the reunification of the country, and on to the challenges of the present day, exploring the diversity of landscapes, issues related to an aging population and the opportunities brought by immigration, the fight against antisemitism, climate change, sustainability, and tourism. Particular attention is given to nature conservation strategies and the transition toward sustainable energy sources, as well as best practices in urban biodiversity. Tourism is also analyzed through the lens of sustainability: from the post-Covid recovery to marketing strategies, from the specifics of cultural holidays and natural destinations\u2014such as the Wadden Sea or UNESCO World Heritage routes\u2014to the Wine Routes and the Fairy Tale Route, a one-of-a-kind cultural itinerary that illustrates how sustainable policies can enrich the tourist experience and the lives of citizens.
In other words, this is a book written to inspire reflection and provoke thought about a country that has come to terms with its past and risen from its ashes\u2014a country at times complex, at times welcoming, but always worth discovering: Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Charli-e Galibert<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art et anthropoc\u00e8ne
Codex Scholtensis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cr\u00e9ation et Apocalypse selon Armand Scholt\u00e8s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-62-2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year: 2024;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pages: 561;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language: French;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Codex is a compendium that aspires to accompany the reading of the Work of Armand Scholtes (1935\u20132023), inviting the reader to an intense engagement of reflection and cultivation around the very genesis of creation and its continuity over more than 60 years of daily artistic activity.
This body of work (https:\/\/www.armandscholtes.com\/<\/a>) represents a continuous variation between creation and destruction, beginning and disappearance, Origin and Apocalypse.
Its reading of the Anthropocene serves as both a cosmogony (elements, colors, forms, movement) and a cosmology (a History of the Creation of the Physical World). The work weaves a link with the History of the World long before the arrival of humankind\u2014since the erection-construction-birthing of the World, through the gestating labor of the elements\u2014water, fire, mineral, air\u2014up to its potential end in destruction by human hands.
The Codex, the result of a long-standing companionship and friendship between the artist and the author, further offers a space for exchange and sharing with readers\u2014a journey toward the understanding of the world and of creativity, perfectly illustrating the idea that art exists because life is not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Flavia Schiavo<\/em><\/p>\n

8 LEZIONI NEWYORCHESI \u2013 <\/strong>LA DEMOCRAZIA DELLA CITT\u00c0, LA DEMOCRAZIA DELLA NATURA<\/strong><\/div>\n
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ISBN 979-12-80064-49-3<\/div>\n
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Year: 2023;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pages: 276;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Language: Italian;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The book explores New York City, from the Industrial Revolution to present-day. Analyzing conflicts, transformations, cultural and biotic exchanges and the concepts of democracy, not just in political terms, but looking at the relationship between urban Natures and urban Cultures. Divided into 5 Sections and 8 Chapters, the volume reflects on the different forms of urban organization and practices, comparing the democracy of Nature, in urban areas, to the urban democracy, exploring the role and interaction of anthropic activities with natural dynamics.
The book does not discuss the city and nature as aesthetic form but explores the conflictual-collaborative intersection between Urban Nature and Urban Cultures, in relation to historical events and to several contemporary aspects, to learn from the nature and the relationship between nature and culture. The first Section discusses on urban transformation through the skyline, a \u201ccomprehensive landscape\u201d; the second Section explores the urban parks and gardens and their historical evolution, conflicts between groups and gentrification processes, dealing with some opportunities provided by new laws that address climate issues and the revitalization of the city. The third Section looks at the American Botanical Gardens, reflecting on their role in the urban environment. The fourth Section studies the relationship between city and food, in relation to social and symbolic topics, while the fifth Section returns a specific contemporary drama, connected to the Covid-19, narrating the pandemic effects on the social structure and on the New Yorkers homeless.<\/p>\n

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Federico Volpe<\/em><\/p>\n

STORIA UMANISTICA DELLA NATURA
UN\u2019ANTOLOGIA LETTERARIA, ARTISTICA E MUSICALE<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-43-1<\/p>\n

Year: 2023;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pages: 190;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Language: Italian;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The present volume aims at reconstructing the history of man-nature relationship among the various forms of art. The studies about the Anthropocene era, always more developed during the last years, led to some important and accurate researches on the presence and the impact of man on Earth. These studies include all the vast and complex considerations about pollution, climate, energy and so on. But every discourse that focuses on the features and the problems of the Anthropocene has maybe at its base a fundamental theme, a fil rouge from which it cannot be separated: the relationship between man and nature. The evolution of this relationship among the centuries influenced and, in turn, was influenced by the innovations that marked the history of homo sapiens from a scientific and technological point of view. Nevertheless, man-nature relationship has always been a central theme also in the artistic and literary production of man himself, who \u2018dedicated\u2019 to nature an endless list of texts, poems, pictures, sculptures, and musical compositions. What this volume wants to do is to retrace the evolution of the nature and of the relationship between man and nature in the history of the arts, that is to analyse how man represented the nature in the figurative arts, in the music, and in the literature, considering the so-called \u201cwestern\u201d world. In order to do that, the volume will cross the centuries and will focus on the various themes and concepts that man associated to the nature \u2014 from love to religion, from humour to death. In this way, hopefully, it will be possible to offer some points for reflection on the culture of the contemporary world too, in which there is the constant return of themes and leitmotifs that accompanied man and his art since the origin of the art itself.<\/p>\n

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Eleonora Gioia<\/em><\/p>\n

LE PROSPETTIVE GEOGRAFICHE DELLA RIDUZIONE DEL RISCHIO DISASTRI: COMUNIT\u00c0, GOVERNANCE, SOSTENIBILIT\u00c0 AMBIENTALE E RISORSE ECONOMICHE<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-42-4<\/p>\n

Year: 2023
<\/strong>Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong>
Pages: 203<\/strong>
Language: Italian<\/strong>
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Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) requires community empowerment and participation, through coordination mechanisms in all sectors and at all social and institutional levels. However, DRR strategies usually focus on a few or single elements, due to a series of barriers, mostly institutional, but also cognitive, economic, and social, which lead to the lack of a decisive overall vision for risk management. This monographic work presents a DRR analysis methodology called \u201cCO.G.EN.S.\u201d and tested through the European Life Project \u201cPRIMES\u201d. This system of indicators assesses the achievement of flood risk reduction objectives in four thematic areas that share a geographical perspective: community engagement (CO), governance capacity and institutional compliance (G), environmental sustainability (EN) and economic resources (S).<\/p>\n

The analysis showed that the involvement of the local population and the cooperation between the institutions have improved thanks to the Project, thus increasing flood risk awareness and social cohesion. However, the Project activities did not have direct effects on the environmental and socio-economic areas. To improve flood risk reduction efforts, it is suggested to enhance the involvement of all community actors, with a role of coordination and homogenization of warning procedures by institutions, the integration of climatological data by scientists and technicians, and the education of citizens regarding flood risk and adaptation to climate change. The CO.G.EN.S. indicator system has proven to be effective and comprehensive, with an objective, transversal and multidisciplinary assessment of risk reduction. The methodology is also modular and easily replicable in other contexts, potentially suitable for comparing DRR strategies applied to different types of risk and at different territorial scales.<\/p>\n

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Charlie Galibert<\/em><\/p>\n

ANTHROPOC\u00c8NE ET ESTH\u00c9TIQUE DE LA DOMINATION
Le nu et le corps dans l\u2019art<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-31-8<\/p>\n

Year: 2022
<\/strong>Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong>
Pages: 381<\/strong>
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The Anthropocene unfolds its generalized domination and exploitation of the world through internal exclusion (what is not man) and external exclusion (nature, the non-human). This episteme of the objectification of humans, non-humans and the World, passes through language, writing, the male gaze as a Vision of the world promoted to universality. Domination is expressed in art by a violence that does not say its name by draping itself in candid nudity, the image of beauty and naturalness, thus making art the very place of its most beautiful lie. The aesthetics of domination makes the Anthropocene an anthropoScene, in which gendered functioning gives the body a central role. The historical examination of this aesthetics of domination disguised as the domination of aesthetics (painting, sculpture, happening, writing) and its questioning by the opposition\/feminine and feminist demarcation of the 60s-70s and beyond, leads, by following the evolution of contemporary art, to the proposal of a possible elsewhere of the gendered heart of the functioning of the Anthropocene, by the call for a new alliance between the Human (post gender) and the Living (animated and inanimate nature) by providing some keys for the construction of the Human-as-counter-project in the Anthropocene, shared with the Living and the Planet by respecting and meeting all otherness, internal and external.<\/p>\n

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Livio Perra<\/em><\/p>\n

IL GENOCIDIO CULTURALE<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-32-5<\/p>\n

Year: 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Series: Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/strong>
Pages: 103<\/strong>
Language:  Italian
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This monograph analyses the cultural genocide. It is perpetrated through the direct attack on cultural heritage with the intent of destroying a human group. The category of cultural genocide, although foreseen in the first formulation of the definition of genocide, does not have much luck. In international texts aimed at preventing and punishing genocide, only physical and biological genocide are mentioned. Nevertheless, interest in this category does not cease to exist. The phenomenon is analysed by the doctrine in numerous writings. The Supreme National Tribunal of Poland, in the 1946 judgment, defining the Poland v. Greiser, qualifies certain acts as cultural genocide. More recently, in 2016, the International Criminal Court condemns Al Mahdi for the destruction of cultural properties, applying the discipline established at the international level for the protection of cultural property in armed conflicts. In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, in its final report, defines the policies implemented by the Canadian government regarding indigenous peoples and, in particular the phenomenon of residential schools, as cultural genocide. The author, after having outlined the category of cultural genocide, comes to the conclusion that using this category can allow to contrast the direct attack on cultural heritage perpetrated with the aim of destroying a human group.<\/p>\n

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Andrea Nocera<\/em><\/p>\n

VERDE MERAVIGLIA
IMMAGINARE UN NUOVO MODO DI ABITARE<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-23-3<\/p>\n

Year: 2021<\/strong>
Pages: 142<\/strong>
Language: Italian<\/strong>
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\u00abWhat kind of world has a place for us and for everything else both now and for future generations? What does it mean for such a world to carry on? How can we make it happen?\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n

Green Wonder: imagining a new way of dwelling<\/em> charts the path from anthropologist Tim Ingold’s questions. Queries that involve everyone, present and future generations, humans and non-humans, in a kind of network in which individuals are threads that knot and diverge weaving life on planet Earth.<\/p>\n

The volume is structured in two parts. In the first one it investigates the current Human-Nature relationship, a conflictual condition in which an arrogant human being tries to abstract himself from his earthly origin. A way of dwelling, therefore of being in the world, which has left indelible marks on an Earth that warns us to change course in the era of the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Eremocene. The thesis proposes to co-imagine new ways of being in the world towards a symbiosis of humans-non-humans, where plants are the first cohabitants and cities are the places of action and change.<\/p>\n

The second part proposes three case studies in the cities of Turin, Lisbon and Matera. The studies conducted between 2018 and 2020 call into question the projects Green Crown<\/em> of the Piedmont Region, Lisbon European Green Capital 2020<\/em> and Matera European Capital of Culture 2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The final canvas reveals the multispecies garden, an ideal and material place that cultivates wonder and allows life to flourish.<\/p>\n

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Maurizio Indirli, <\/em>Vito Di Maio, <\/em>Lucia Martinelli<\/em><\/p>\n

AN ANALYSIS OF ITALIAN RESILIENCE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: FIRST PHASE FROM JANUARY TO JUNE 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-21-9<\/p>\n

Year: 2021<\/strong>
Pages: 310<\/strong>
Language: English<\/strong>
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This work adopts the concept of resilience and its attributes (<\/span>safety<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>robustness<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>adaptive capacity<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>sustainability<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>governance<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>anamnesis<\/span><\/i>) to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic, <\/span>with specific reference to Italy during the first phase, from January to June 2020. The aim is to assess the main features of this pandemic and suggest a suitable tool to evaluate the capability of the Italian system to manage such catastrophe. <\/span>Before discussing the Italian situation, a general overview about the current COVID-19 outbreak is presented, with special focus on selected countries worldwide, which adopted different <\/span>intervention strategies such as exclusion, elimination, suppression, mitigation, and no substantive strategy. <\/span><\/p>\n

With regard to Italy, a Global Resilience Index (GRI), suitable to provide a sense of direction (built or reduced resilience) is also calculated. In our analysis comes again the fork between \u2018<\/span>engineering resilience<\/span>\u2019 (<\/span>homeostatic<\/span><\/i>) and \u2018<\/span>ecological resilience<\/span>\u2019 (<\/span>autopoietic<\/span><\/i>): will the humanity be able to govern the next changes or shall withstand a new mass extinction, leading to a drastic collapse of the Earth biodiversity? <\/span><\/p>\n

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Livio Perra<\/em><\/p>\n

I SISTEMI DI PROTEZIONE AMBIENTALE DI ECUADOR E BOLIVIA E L’AFFERMAZIONE DEI DIRITTI DELLA NATURA<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-20-2<\/p>\n

Year: 2021<\/strong>
Pages: 151<\/strong>
Language: Italian
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This monograph aims to analyze environmental protection systems of Ecuador and Bolivia. In these systems, there is a transition from anthropocentrism to biocentrism. In particular, nature becomes a subject of rights. These systems are the result of the reflections that emerged in political and legal debates, due to the entry of the values of the indigenous peoples\u2019 culture, where nature is of considerable importance. The author investigates the genesis of these environmental protection systems and how the cultures of the peoples who make up the States found equal space to express their values. The environmental protection systems of Ecuador and Bolivia appear as complete: legal systems recognize nature as a subject, affirm its rights and there is a wide range of judicial instruments and actions to claim in respect of them. After analyzing these systems in all their parts, the author addresses the issues that emerged. From the analysis carried out in this monograph, the fact that emerges is that the rights of nature constitute an effective way to defend the environment. Culture becomes the key to dealing with current environmental questions and contributes to the evolution of law. Law is able to renew itself, abandon anthropocentric logics, rethink categories and build two new and complete environmental protection systems.<\/p>\n

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Eleonora Gioia<\/em>
Fausto Marincioni<\/em>
Maurizio Ferretti<\/em><\/p>\n

MODELING LANDSLIDE HAZARD IN THE ESINO RIVER VALLEY (CENTRAL ITALY)<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-11-0<\/p>\n

Year: 2021
Pages: 206
Language: English
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Modeling landslide hazard is among the forecast activities of the Civil Protection system. Usually, scientific literature that aims to determine rainfall thresholds for the possible occurrence of landslides, tends to rely on two main separate approaches: empirical and physical models. This research contributes to such debate by adopting both the approaches, after integrating some of the each other features. This novel methodology has been applied to the landslides affecting the eastward Esino River Valley, located in the Marche region (central Italy). Post-orogenic quaternary sediments, with approximatively similar hydrogeological properties and prone to rainfall-induced shallow landslides, characterize this 550 km2 wide area.
This volume is divided in four sections focusing on: i) the validation of the correlation between historical landslides and rainfall series; ii) the application of empirical models, namely the cumulative event \u2013 duration, the maximum intensity \u2013 duration, the mean intensity \u2013 duration, and the Bayesian methods; iii) the application of the US Geological Survey\u2019s Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-based Regional Slope-stability (TRIGRS) physical model; iv) the testing of all the above models, during a rainfall event that affected the study area on 2-4 May 2014 and triggered several landslides.
Results of this research are proposed as possible decision support tools for landslide warning.<\/p>\n

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Charli-e Galibert <\/em><\/p>\n

L’HOMME DU MONDE
<\/strong>ou \u00ab NOUS AUTRES \u00bb
<\/strong>Pour une nouvelle alliance entre les vivants<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-05-9<\/p>\n

Year: 2020;
<\/strong><\/span>Pages: 152;<\/strong><\/span>
Language: French;<\/strong><\/span>
Format: e-book;
Publication: December 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Western humanism is constituted (anthropologically, historically, philosophically) on a double differentiation-minimization-worsening: internal (managing intrahuman differences: give \/ men, them\/us, whites\/blacks, civilized\/primitive), and external to the separation from the non-human: (natural nature, Being, the animal …). The COVID-19\/lockdown crisis highlights the limits of our neoliberal system of world domination and management, even in our way of thinking. To exit the crisis, there must be a transformation of our relationship with the world, re-thinking the position of humans on the planet. The unconditional hospitality of all human and non-human beings is the possibility to change our attitude towards all beings while facing the announced apocalypses of the Anthropocene. Philosophy, anthropology, epistemology, genre, art are all summoned for a New Alliance. The artist Armand Scholt\u00e8s embodies the image of the new “man of the world”.<\/p>\n

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Cristina Casareale
Fausto Marincioni<\/i><\/p>\n

DECONSTRUCTING THE
COSTA CONCORDIA ACCIDENT
New ways to improve
safety at sea<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ISBN 979-12-80064-01-1<\/p>\n

Year: 2020;
<\/strong><\/span>Pages: 192;<\/strong><\/span>
Language: English;<\/strong><\/span>
Format: e-book;
Publication: May 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Accidents have been part of the maritime industry since its beginning. Early attempts to reduce accidents were engineering in nature, even though since the early 1990s the focus has shifted progressively on the role of human behavior and how that behavior factors into casualties. This research approaches the human factor in maritime accidents from multiple perspectives considering interactions among individual, organizational and regulatory levels, to propose eventually a new leadership model for maritime emergency management. This volume is divided in three sections focusing on: i) the multilevel interactions that lead to the Costa Concordia accident and affected the unfolding of the emergency; ii) the rupture of the communication flows consequent to the failure of the chain of command, iii) weaknesses and strengths of current leadership and communication procedures. The proposed alternative leadership model, corroborated also through a focus group discussion organized at the Cyprus Institute of Marketing, is a combination of the current command and control vertical structure with a more horizontal leadership in which responsibilities, during a maritime emergency, are shared between the captain and other top officers.<\/p>\n

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Fausto Marincioni<\/p>\n

L’EMERGENZA CLIMATICA IN ITALIA
Dalla percezione del rischio alle strategie di adattamento<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

ISBN 978-88-94327-57-1<\/p>\n

Year: 2020;
<\/strong><\/span>Pages: 198;<\/strong><\/span>
Language: Italian;<\/strong><\/span>
Format: e-book;
Publication: February 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The changes in the Earth\u2019s climate observed in recent decades have increased the frequency and intensity of certain natural hazards, exposing an increasing number of people to serious risks. To be effective, prevention and mitigation measures, in addition to the control and containment of these hazards, must include organizational and functional aspects of communities at risk. There is no doubt that adaptation is the key word for the correct balance between humans and their environment. This essay discusses the results of a research project about risk perception of local communities in Italy involved in the European project “Preventing flooding RIsks by Making resilient communitiES” (www.lifeprimes.eu).
Particular attention was paid to the perception of climate hazards and adaptation processes of such communities, highlighting similarities and differences related to geographical location. Results show a significant improvement in flood resilience for those communities involved in public meetings, exercises and other participatory processes. The study constitutes a strong theoretical basis from which to extend the analysis to other territories, providing the elements for a better management of climate risk in Italy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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