Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past

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dc.creator Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N.
dc.creator Abu-Jaber, Nizar
dc.creator Trovato, Maria Gabriella
dc.creator Terkenli, Theano S.
dc.date 2021-02-11T17:22:57Z
dc.date 2021-02-11T17:22:57Z
dc.date 2020-06-09 16:38:57
dc.date 2020
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-20T15:21:25Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-20T15:21:25Z
dc.identifier 46084
dc.identifier https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51369
dc.identifier https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2278
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/251678
dc.description Landscapes have long been viewed as ‘multifunctional’, integrating ecological, economic, sociocultural, historical, and aesthetic dimensions. Landscape science and public awareness in Europe have been progressing in leaps and bounds. The challenges involved in landscape-related issues and fields, however, are multiple and refer to landscape stewardship and protection, as well as to the development of comprehensive theoretical and methodological approaches, in tandem with public sensitization and participatory governance and in coordination with appropriate top-down planning and policy instruments. Landscape-scale approaches are fundamental to the understanding of past and present cultural evolution, and are now considered to be an appropriate spatial framework for the analysis of sustainability. Methods and tools of landscape analysis and intervention have also gone a long way since their early development in Europe and the United States. Although significant progress has been made, there remain many issues which are understudied or not investigated at all—at least in a Mediterranean context. This Special Issue addresses the application of landscape theory and practice in the Eastern Mediterranean and mainly, but not exclusively, reports on the outcomes of an international conference held in Jordan, in December 2015, with the title “Landscapes of Eastern Mediterranean: Challenges, Opportunities, Prospects and Accomplishments”. The focus of this Special Issue, landscapes of the Eastern Mediterranean region, thus constitutes a timely area of research interest, not only because these landscapes have so far been understudied, but also as a rich site of strikingly variegated, long-standing multicultural human–environmental interactions. These interactions, resting on and taking shape through millennia of continuity in tradition, have been striving to adapt to technological advances, while currently juggling with manifold and multilayered socioeconomic and climate–environmental crises.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.rights open access
dc.subject G1-922
dc.subject Q1-390
dc.subject n/a
dc.subject landscape archaeology
dc.subject Cyprus
dc.subject Landscape Character Assessment (LCA)
dc.subject Eastern Mediterranean
dc.subject Land Description Units
dc.subject stakeholders’ analysis
dc.subject UK
dc.subject local authority
dc.subject ancient sanctuaries
dc.subject East Med landscape
dc.subject Twain-born Border Lord
dc.subject Landscape Decision Support System
dc.subject mapping
dc.subject topography
dc.subject Byzantine landscape and garden art
dc.subject economy
dc.subject LCA
dc.subject classification
dc.subject churches
dc.subject Arabic-speaking
dc.subject participatory
dc.subject Landscape Risk Assessment Model
dc.subject landforms
dc.subject GIS
dc.subject planning
dc.subject typology
dc.subject Greek-speaking
dc.subject public realm
dc.subject landscape changes
dc.subject sacred space
dc.subject comparative study
dc.subject urban environment
dc.subject ideology
dc.subject political power
dc.subject Arabic landscape and garden art
dc.subject cultural sustainability
dc.subject historical maps
dc.subject religion
dc.subject rural land
dc.subject multi-functional landscapes
dc.subject Lebanon
dc.subject Mediterranean
dc.subject geographical information system
dc.subject spatial distributions
dc.subject Land Description Unit (LDU)
dc.subject political sustainability
dc.subject landscape
dc.subject landscape character assessment
dc.subject governance
dc.title Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past
dc.resourceType book
dc.alternateIdentifier 9783039217748
dc.alternateIdentifier 9783039217755
dc.alternateIdentifier 10.3390/books978-3-03921-775-5
dc.licenseCondition Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.identifierdoi 10.3390/books978-3-03921-775-5
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dc.relationisbn 9783039217748
dc.relationisbn 9783039217755
dc.pages 164


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