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Biocultural Diversity in Europe
The book collects a selection of the papers presented at the meeting held in the context of the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD). Recognizing the inextricable link between biological and cultural diversity, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) joined forces, and in 2010 launched the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD). The first meeting for the implementation of the JP-BiCuD was held in Florence (Italy) in April 2014 and produced the UNESCO-sCBD Florence Declaration, which highlights the concept of biocultural diversity. The European rural territory is predominantly a biocultural, multi-functional landscape, providing a crucial and effective space for integration of biological and cultural diversity, suggesting the need to revise some of the current strategies for the assessment and management of biodiversity.
Plant Foods of Greece
"Greek archaeologist Soultana Maria Valamoti takes readers on a culinary journey in her synthesis of plant foods and culinary practices of Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece. Plant foods were the main ingredients of daily meals in prehistoric Greece and most likely of special dishes prepared for feasts and rituals. For more than thirty years, Valamoti has been analyzing a large body of archaeobotanic data that spans 7,000 years from the Neolithic to Bronze Age and that was retrieved from nearly one hundred sites in mainland Greece and the Greek islands. This book also reflects experimentation and research of ancient written sources. Her approach allows an exploration of culinary variability thr...
Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy
Demonstrates how food-growing gardens in early medieval cities transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.
Greening Europe
Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in these activities and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the subcontinent who set out to connect and network, and to exchange knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national horizons. Moving beyond human agency, the handbook also highlights the eminent role nature played in both "greening" Europe and making Europe a shared environment.
Trees Are Shape Shifters
An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change within the context of the Anthropocene, Andrew Mathews investigates how people in Lucca, Italy, make sense of social and environmental change by caring for the morphologies of trees and landscapes. He analyzes how people encounter climate change, not by thinking and talking about climate, but by caring for the environments around them. Maintaining landscape stability by caring for the forms of trees, rivers, and hillsides is a way that people link their experiences to the past and to larger scale political questions. The human-transformed landscapes of Italy are a harbinger of the experiences that all of us are likely to face, and addressing these disasters will call upon all of us to think about the human and natural histories of the landscapes we live in.
Il paesaggio agrario italiano
Gli studi sul paesaggio agrario di Emilio Sereni restano tuttora di grande attualità. La storia dei territori, nel loro intrinseco rapporto tra uomo e natura, è la storia del suolo modellato dal lavoro dei contadini, delle trasformazioni fondiarie, degli ordinamenti colturali, degli insediamenti e delle infrastrutture, ma anche dei rapporti di produzione, con esiti che si caricano di valenze sociali, culturali e visive. I contributi qui presenti raccolgono l’eredità di Emilio Sereni e dimostrano l’attualità della sua lezione, la robustezza delle sue argomentazioni e il fascino che il mondo delle campagne non smette di esercitare. Riprendere oggi a studiare Emilio Sereni ha un significato forte, che richiama i valori dell’antifascismo, della resistenza e le lotte per la giustizia sociale.
Naturalità e piatti tipici nella società dello spettacolo
Uno studio sui costumi alimentari legati alla definizione di cibo naturale e tradizionale, in rapporto con l'industria, i metodi di produzione e l'ambiente. Con le osservazioni raccolte in questo testo voglio offrire delle riflessioni sui fenomeni che concorrono nelle culture alimentari italiane oggi, per valutare l'insieme di cosa stiamo producendo. Parlo di culture, appunto perché, da come ho analizzato, anche all'interno della dieta mediterranea, la più comunemente praticata in Italia, sono presenti diverse ideologie e politiche parallele, che agiscono già dalla fase di produzione delle materie prime, fino ad arrivare alla trasformazione, vendita e consumo di esse; e la pongono a volte...
