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• 01 jan 2020

  Call for papers - Geography

  Mountains and the collective management of the commons: influences and interactions

  Ancestral collective ownership systems linked to village communities, sprouted from feudal law, used to correspond to an agrarian economy that was generally needed for self-subsistence (feeding). This economy gradually deteriorated for a variety of interconnected reasons. Nonetheless, these systems have managed to survive over time, which is rather surprising. Their presence is still strongly felt in rural areas – mainly in mountain regions (France, Italy and Switzerland, in particular). In a contemporary context of agricultural decline, the disappearance of landscapes, declining allocations from the state to communes and the urgent need to preserve natural resources and stimulate rural areas, one has to ask which roles these communities can play to develop the mountain territories in a sustainable way.

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• 15 fév 2017

  Rome

  Call for papers - Geography

  The mediation of technologies for a new communication and representation of territory

  Session S25 of the 32nd Italian Geographers Congress

  The session, which is part of the 32^nd Congress of Italian Geographers, will accept both theoretical and methodological proposals exploring the forms through wich ICTs, particularly the Web, have been changing the dynamics of territory representation in the last decades. Among other things, the proposal shoud focus on territorial communication forms for both political and administrative aims (the communication by and for citizens/investors) and tourist and cultural purposes (the communication by and for tourists/visitors).

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• 31 jan 2015

  Bolzano

  Call for papers - History

  Transit

  Infrastructures and societies in the Alpes, from Antiquity to the present day

  Loin d’être des espaces fermés et repliés sur elles-mêmes, les Alpes ont toujours été en contact avec le monde extérieur par le biais des hommes et des marchandises qui les ont traversées. La thématique centrale du colloque sera l’étude du rapport entre les infrastructures et les phénomènes sociaux dans l’espace alpin de l’Antiquité à l’époque actuelle, puisque la présence d’importantes voies de trafic et de flux d’échange a été un élément qui a fortement affecté la réalité historique des territoires. De plus, la construction de nouvelles infrastructures et le déplacement des axes du trafic a produit des gagnants mais aussi des perdants parmi les groupes sociaux et les communautés alpines.

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• 15 jan 2013

  Épinal

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Geography

  Mountain Thesard Prize 2013

  The Vosges Chamber of Commerce and Industry is organising the 3rd Mountain Thesard Prize, which will award 5000 € to a PhD Thesis dealing with mountain topics. This competition is open to all students who have published a PhD thesis in a European or Maghrebi university after 2009.

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