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Resilience and the cultural landscape : understanding and managing change in human-shaped environments
\"All over the world, efforts are being made to preserve landscapes facing fundamental change as a consequence of widespread agricultural intensification, land abandonment and urbanisation. The 'cultural' and 'resilience' approaches have, until now, largely been viewed as distinct methods for understanding the effects of these dynamics, and the ways in which they might be adapted or managed. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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A study on the determination of the natural park’s sustainable tourism potential
The surface site of Yesilyuva Nature Park encompasses natural, social, economic, and cultural characteristics and has become a marker of the region’s natural and cultural heritage. To support the preservation of this site, promotional activities should be planned. In this study, because of tourism and related opinions of residents and visitors alike in terms of their natural determination, an important cultural and historical feature is aimed at evaluating the tourism potential of Yesilyuva Nature Park. This framework is designed to establish prospective tourism sustainability. As a result, Yesilyuva Nature Park’s natural and cultural properties have been determined to be suitable for sustainable tourism activities using geographic information systems (GIS). This protection in the field, which balances sustainability and landscape design, will provide for the development of tourism activities. In the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis and survey, residents and visitors reported that the most important feature of the Yesilyuva Nature Park was its natural beauty. Visitors often come to observe traditional and natural life and to engage in tourism activities. All the data, which includes maps derived from GIS, represents landscape planning for sustainable tourism areas in Yesilyuva Nature Park.
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What North American Archaeology Needs to Take Advantage of the Digital Data Revolution
Today, there is a growing movement to use accumulated archaeological information to contribute to discussions of general issues facing human societies, including our own. In this regard, the archaeological record is most unique and helpful when viewed at broad comparative scales. Most relevant data for these sorts of analyses are collected through the cultural resource management (CRM) process. Still, by and large, interpretation remains limited to individual projects, and data integration across projects is nearly nonexistent. What would it take for CRM to achieve real data integration? In this article, we discuss these issues and suggest one potential solution. The most pressing need we identify is for data products that integrate the primary data emanating from CRM at broad spatial and temporal scales, which are suitable for research by archaeologists and other social scientists. We argue that the time is right for the discipline to invest in organizations that produce such products.
Hoy en día hay un movimiento creciente para utilizar la información arqueológica acumulada para contribuir a las discusiones de los problemas generales que enfrentan las sociedades humanas, incluida la nuestra. En este sentido, el registro arqueológico es más único y útil cuando se ve a escalas comparativas amplias. Los datos más relevantes para este tipo de análisis se recopilan a través del proceso de gestión de recursos culturales (CRM). Aún así, en general, la interpretación sigue limitada a proyectos individuales, y la integración de datos entre proyectos es casi inexistente. ¿Qué se necesitaría para que CRM logre una integración de datos real? En este documento, discutimos estos problemas y sugerimos una posible solución. La necesidad más apremiante que identificamos es la de productos de datos que integren los datos primarios que emanan de CRM a amplias escalas espaciales y temporales, que sean adecuados para la investigación de arqueólogos y otros científicos sociales. Argumentamos que es el momento adecuado para que la disciplina invierta en organizaciones que producen tales productos.
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Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage
Computer-Generated Images (CGIs) are widely used and accepted in the world of entertainment but the use of the very same visualization techniques in academic research in the Arts and Humanities remains controversial. The techniques and conceptual perspectives on heritage visualization are a subject of an ongoing interdisciplinary debate. By demonstrating scholarly excellence and best technical practice in this area, this volume is concerned with the challenge of providing intellectual transparency and accountability in visualization-based historical research. Addressing a range of cognitive and technological challenges, the authors make a strong case for a wider recognition of three-dimensional visualization as a constructive, intellectual process and valid methodology for historical research and its communication.
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Monitoring Irish Coastal Heritage Destruction: A Case Study from Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland
Coastal erosion poses an acute threat to cultural heritage resources, particularly in island contexts where erosional and degradational threats can be amplified by increased exposure and sea-level changes. We present a generalizable, best-practice approach that integrates multi-temporal, multi-resolution, and inconsistently ground-controlled data to demonstrate how suites of remotely sensed data can be integrated under real-world constraints. This approach is used to conduct a longitudinal analysis of cultural resources on the island of Inishark, Western Ireland. Results show evidence of significant and potentially accelerating shoreline erosion and structural loss within the past century, with rates of erosion ranging from 0.15 to 0.3 m/year along shorelines and 3–5 m2/year for structures. Outcomes demonstrate the utility and importance of an integrative data approach for cultural resource management.
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Refoundation
When the 1916 National Park Service Act established a government bureau to professionally manage a growing portfolio of national parks, it was intentionally called a service. No one is fooled by the thinnest of verbal smokescreens, spurious claims about \"strengthening our ability to serve the public,\" \"embracing new opportunities for optimization and innovation in workforce management,\" or \"Working around obstacles to provide memorable experiences,\" as thousands of NPS employees disappear. Beyond demonstrating a palpable disrespect for public servants, and overt hostility to the integrity and continuity of a great national park system, these actions create opportunities for self-dealing and profiteering. In such scenarios, NPS programs devoted to park science, history, education, natural and cultural resources management, and community technical assistance, would be drastically rolled back or eliminated. The proposed 2026 budget narrative makes the specious claim that \"a large number of sites ... are not 'National Parks) in the traditionally understood sense\": an incredibly shallow and superficial characterization of today's national park system and its extraordinary breadth of places and programs.
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