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Landscape: Concepts and Features in the Italian and Chinese Contexts

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The Resilience of Cultural Landscapes

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The chapter focuses on the qualitative analysis of landscape and its implications, considered as outcomes of a cultural process. Consequently, UNESCO cultural landscapes are analysed in the framework of the Western world, to which Italy belongs, and in the Chinese one. Literature review and remote, qualitative interviews with domestic and foreign scholars have been used to expand more on the different ideas contributing to the landscape-related concepts. The aim is to find parallels and bridges between the cultures of the mentioned countries and to define a possible common background for further discussions on landscape between the sites selected by this research (i.e. the ‘Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato’, in Italy, and the ‘Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces’, in China).

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Aimar, F. (2024). Landscape: Concepts and Features in the Italian and Chinese Contexts. In: The Resilience of Cultural Landscapes. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55861-0_3

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