Sökning: "historic environment"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 34 avhandlingar innehållade orden historic environment.
1. Assembling the Historic Environment: Heritage in the Digital Making
Sammanfattning : The historic environment is a formulation of the cultural past as experienced and documented in space. Traditional approaches to the historic environment tend to favour conservational and preservational paradigms, such as heritage stewardship or the dynamics of cultural resource management in relation to national policies. LÄS MER
2. From Gone to Gain: Exploring the Scope of Historic Environment Compensation in Planning
Sammanfattning : Large planning projects inserted in old cities often cause physical loss of the historic environments they encounter. Public actors face the challenge of conserving these environments, while simultaneously considering planning needs for the future. LÄS MER
3. Urban and rural environments from Iron Age to Medieval time in northern Europe : Evidence from fossil insect remains from South-Eastern Sweden and Novgorod, Russia
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents and discusses results from studies in of subfossil insect remains of natural and cultural origin. Samples were obtained by coring in sediments or by collection during archaeological excavations. The aim was to reconstruct local environment and climate in rural and early urban situations from Iron Age to medieval time. LÄS MER
4. The martial politics of biodiversity protection: Wildlife conservation practices in northern Kenya
Sammanfattning : Wildlife conservation is entangled with broader conflict dynamics in pastoral and semi-arid northern Kenya and tackles livestock theft, road banditry and inter-communal conflict. The thesis aims to better understand this ‘war by conservation’, in which conservation and military-like practices address and tie into wider security issues. LÄS MER
5. In transit : aspects of transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer's travels
Sammanfattning : Transculturalism refers to how cultural barriers are transcended and how cultures meet. Because the transcultural perspective reflects hitherto unrepresented spaces, it revises and innovates literary canons. This study investigates aspects of transculturalism in texts dealing with travel by the Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer. LÄS MER