GEOGRAPHY I

The course aims to offer a reference frame on some approaches, concepts and topics of human geography, with a special attention to the topic of landscape. In particular, the willing is to promote, on the one hand, the awareness of the complexity concerning the concept of landscape, and, on the other, the value of landscape as cultural heritage.

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The course will provide some elements useful to narrow approaches, key concepts and objects of classic and contemporary human geography. The focus is especially brought on the topic of landscape, in relation to the concepts of environment, space, place and territory; then, landscape will be considered as a value and as cultural heritage, also in relation to tourism. Case studies: island landscapes, terraced landscapes, wetland and land reclamation landscapes.

For those attending lessons:
1) Lessons’ notes.
2) Turri E., Il paesaggio degli uomini. La natura, la cultura, la storia, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2009 (e edizioni seguenti). [Chapters to study will be specified at the beginning of the course]
3) Varotto M., Bonardi L., Paesaggi terrazzati d’Italia. Eredità storiche e nuove prospettive, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016. [e-book also available]

For those not attending lessons:
1) Ferrata C., L’esperienza del paesaggio. Vivere, comprendere, trasformare i luoghi, Roma, Carocci, 2013.
2) Turri E., Il paesaggio degli uomini. La natura, la cultura, la storia, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2009 (e edizioni seguenti).
3) Varotto M., Bonardi L., Paesaggi terrazzati d’Italia. Eredità storiche e nuove prospettive, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016. [e-book also available]

written

2 hour time. Open questions, partly different for those attending or not attending lessons.

Lessons.

Italian

Attending lessons is highly recommended. Further readings will be available as ISA materials or indicated during the course.

• University credits of sustainability: 6
• Lecture notes, material for reference or for self-assessment available online or as e-book