Cultural Landscape in Practice

The book addresses Cultural Landscape understanding as driver for societal challenges, economic development, social inclusion, place assessment and conservation of heritage. The book will disseminate issues growing from the relation between conservation and emergencies and identifies analytical and descriptive tools with the aim of sharing knowledge already available and with the aim of generating new knowledge so that it can be transformed into skills, seismic culture and social resilience. Documentation of landscape and its different identities and the graphic transcription of its semantic expression, also thanks to new technologies, provides a cognitive framework but also an operational vision to create popular places, regenerate the meanings of living and building according to local tradition. Chapters will also ultimately help people's efforts to overcome the emergency phase of reconstruction after natural disasters and, introducing references and relevant issues on recent studies, describes emerging tools to understand such paradigmatic knowledge continuously inspiring practices that affect the agrarian, natural and urban landscape. The work presents also a collaborative framework encouraging international cooperation and exchange of best practices and foster the work of charities in different countries. The book benefits scholars, academics and practitioners that are involved in the process of understanding, designing and transforming places and aims to foster an international exchange of research, case studies, and best practices to confront the practical challenges of maintaining cultural landscapes alive and enabling community to improve cultural networks and promote education.