LEADER 04750nam 2200913z- 450 001 9910404082203321 005 20231214132843.0 010 $a3-03921-775-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000011302316 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51369 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011302316 100 $a20202102d2020 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLandscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past 210 $cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2020 215 $a1 electronic resource (164 p.) 311 $a3-03921-774-7 330 $aLandscapes 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. 610 $alandscape archaeology 610 $aCyprus 610 $aLandscape Character Assessment (LCA) 610 $aEastern Mediterranean 610 $aLand Description Units 610 $astakeholders' analysis 610 $aUK 610 $alocal authority 610 $aancient sanctuaries 610 $aEast Med landscape 610 $aTwain-born Border Lord 610 $aLandscape Decision Support System 610 $amapping 610 $atopography 610 $aByzantine landscape and garden art 610 $aeconomy 610 $aLCA 610 $aclassification 610 $achurches 610 $aArabic-speaking 610 $aparticipatory 610 $aLandscape Risk Assessment Model 610 $alandforms 610 $aGIS 610 $aplanning 610 $atypology 610 $aGreek-speaking 610 $apublic realm 610 $alandscape changes 610 $asacred space 610 $acomparative study 610 $aurban environment 610 $aideology 610 $apolitical power 610 $aArabic landscape and garden art 610 $acultural sustainability 610 $ahistorical maps 610 $areligion 610 $arural land 610 $amulti-functional landscapes 610 $aLebanon 610 $aMediterranean 610 $ageographical information system 610 $aspatial distributions 610 $aLand Description Unit (LDU) 610 $apolitical sustainability 610 $alandscape 610 $alandscape character assessment 610 $agovernance 700 $aVogiatzakis$b Ioannis N$4auth$01331942 702 $aAbu-Jaber$b Nizar$4auth 702 $aTrovato$b Maria Gabriella$4auth 702 $aTerkenli$b Theano S$4auth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910404082203321 996 $aLandscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past$93040682 997 $aUNINA