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| THE OBSERVER
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Maria Gabriella Trovato
Landscape Assistant Professor, Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management Department, American University of Beirut
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Every day, millions of people leave their countries in search for better chances in life. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), five years after the war started in Syria, 11 million refugees have fled across borders. 4.8 million escaped to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, 6.6 million are displaced within Syria, and more than 212,000 people are trapped in besieged areas without access to humanitarian assistance. [...]
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| MOSAIC
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| New publication on the methodology implemented in preparation of the landscape catalogues |
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| The new book The Landscape Catalogues of Catalonia. Methodology is intended to provide any interested person with the methodology used by the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia in the preparation of the landscape catalogues. And it does so after reaching the important milestone of having seven landscape catalogues approved by the Department of Planning and Sustainability. |
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| Video on landscape |
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| The newspaper La Vanguardia has produced a video on landscape with the collaboration of the ATLL, Concession Collaborator of the Catalan Government. The video shows the general public the existing diversity of landscapes, from every day to exceptional landscapes, as well as their importance. Highlights the project, that is in preparation, of the archive of images of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia. |
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| France is interested in landscape policies in Catalonia |
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A delegation of the Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development of the French government visited the Observatory on 1 February to learn about the landscape policies in Catalonia. The case of Catalonia is considered exemplary and inspiring for a new landscape policy in France. The delegation also met landscape initiatives of the Priorat region, the periurban landscape of La Pletera (Torroella de Montgrí) and the Tudela project (Cap de Creus).
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| The book Landscape, Heritage and Water in digital format |
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| The book Landscape, Heritage and Water jointly published with ATLL, Concession Collaborator of the Government and the Landscape Observatory, is now available in digital format. This is the fourth volume of the series "Reflexions" from the collection "Plecs de Paisatge" and it includes the results of the self-titled seminar, which was held in November 2015 in Barcelona. [+] |
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| Exhibition at the MOT Festival |
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| For the fourth consecutive year, the Landscape Observatory will participate in the MOT Literature Festival in Girona - Olot, with the organization of the exhibition "Landscape, History and Literature" which can be seen from march 15 to April 30 at Can Trincheria, Olot. The exhibition is comprised of photographs taken by students of the Art School of Olot, based on fragments from literary texts of authors who will take part in the 2017 MOT. |
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| Results of the meeting on dry stone in the north of Catalonia |
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| The Catalan Pyrenees Regional Natural Park has published the results of the "Meeting on Catalan Dry Stone" held in April of 2016. During the three days, several aspects related to the heritage value of dry stone constructions were brought forward, and the role of the construction technique of dry stone buildings and the new challenges of the profession of the stone workers (margers) were also pointed out. [+] |
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| Roger Serrat-Calvó in the gallery of images from the Observatory website |
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| Roger Serrat-Calvó is the new photographer illustrating the cover of the Landscape Observatory web and thus will form part of the gallery of images from the Observatory. The photographs selected are part de diverse projects such as Leisure time and The Other Landscape, among others. [+] |
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| THE CHOICE |
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| The connecting landscape |
Advisory report of the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure of the Netherlands which places the landscape at the hearth of the new environmental and planning policy. November 2016. |
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| PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
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| Ambient, territori i paisatge: valors i valoracions |
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Folch, Ramon: Bru, Josepa. Barcelona: Editorial Barcino, 2016. ISBN: 978-84-7226-878-4.
The authors have faced the challenge of writing about a subject that seems as ethereal and subtle: values. Not in the abstract way, but in relation with another complex issue, that is as material and extensive as the territory itself and its perceptible expression, the landscape. |
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| Atlas Arqueolóxico Da Paisaxe Galega |
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Criado, Felipe; Parcero, César; Otero, Carlos; Cabrejas, Elena (eds.). Vigo: Edicións Xerais de Galicia, 2016. ISBN: 978-84-9121-048-1.
The archaeological atlas of landscapes of Galicia is an ensemble piece based on the characterisation and classification of the different kinds of cultural landscapes that accompanied each on the stages of Prehistoric times in Galicia, from the Neolithic to the Medieval period. |
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| Microcatalunya, un viatge pels pobles més petits |
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Serena, Marc; Bayer, Edu. La Bisbal d'Empordà: Edicions Sidillà, 2016. ISBN: 978-84-945041-3-6.
This book arose from authors' project, which in 2014 led them to travel around the Catalonian villages of less than 500 inhabitants, taking as a reference the book Catalunya visió, by Josep Vallverdú and Ton Sirera. |
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| Obnova krajiny česko-německého pohraničí = Wiederbelebung der deutsch-tschechischen Grenzlandschaft = Renewal of Czech-German border landscape |
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Salzmann, Klára; et al. Praga: Astron Studio, 2015. ISBN: 978-80-905944-8-7.
The work includes projects submitted by the restoration of landscape of the Czech-German border, using the village Výkovice as a model. The area was depopulated in just over 30 years and the landscape, abandoned. |
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