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"Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction" presents a selection of eight essays concerning international case studies of recent architectural and urban reconstruction processes, including both Western and Eastern cultural experiences. These texts are briefly introduced by the editor, Tino Mager, an art and architectural historian. The aim of the book is explicit and amply anticipated by the title, which highlights the editor's central focus on the overall political matrix of reconstruction processes, regardless of the cultural framework they are set into.

Approfondimenti in merito alla conservazione del patrimonio immateriale e alla consunzione dovuta allo sfruttamento turistico con particolare riferimento al Camino di Santiago de Compostela, patrimonio dell'umanità

Non esiste un censimento sicuro dei centri storici esistenti in Italia. Più o meno, si dovrebbe trattare di 22.000 siti distribuiti fra i circa 8000 Comuni oggi censiti in Italia, caratterizzati da profonde differenze nella costituzione e nello stato di conservazione.

The technological innovation constitutes a strong tool to deliver and manage information about Cultural Heritage. The Istituto superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro of MiBAC (IsCR, former ICR) has developed the system in more than 20 years to evaluate the risk of the architectural and archaeological goods. A collaboration among the IsCR, the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD) and Sapienza University of Rome allowed to define a specific application of the system to study and monitoring the historical centres.

The 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence provided extensive evidence of the significant seismic vulnerability of New Zealand unreinforced masonry (URM) churches. Given the high seismicity of the country, the exposure of human lives and the societal significance of ecclesiastic buildings, for both historical and religious reasons, the reduction in seismic vulnerability of this building type is of primary importance.

The topical collection ‘Twenty years of biodiversity research and nature conservation in the Socotra Archipelago’, in short ‘Socotra biodiversity research and nature conservation’ was conceived at the 18th Friends of Socotra annual meeting and Socotra conference which took place at the Orto Botanico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, 26–29 September, 2019. In total, 13 research papers are included in the

The attention towards the concepts of landscape, environment and territory and their mutual interrelationships, have engaged, since the early years of the twentieth century, the political class, the cultural and disciplinary world in the definition of new approaches to landscape protection and planning. The normative dispositions that followed over more than a century of debates reflect the evolution of the theoretical-cultural thought developed around the themes of definition, representation, evaluation and landscape planning.

The Rosalia longicorn (Rosalia alpina) is a strictly protected saproxylic beetle, widely distributed in Central and Southern Europe and mainly associated with ancient beech forests. To improve knowledge about the conservation status of R. alpina in Italy, available molecular markers (microsatellites and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I(COI)) were tested for the first time on Italian populations.

Predicting how species respond to human pressure is essential to anticipate their decline and identify appropriate conservation strategies. Both human pressure and extinction risk change over time, but their inter-relationship is rarely considered in extinction risk modelling. Here we measure the relationship between the change in terrestrial human footprint (HFP)-representing cumulative human pressure on the environment-and the change in extinction risk of the world's terrestrial mammals.