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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"UNESCO World Heritage site"”.
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Nanjing City Wall: embodied heritage in wallscape
… and nature, the importance of this ancient heritage was realized. However, as the wall has been nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the government is implementing its preservation policy to sanitize the surrounding neighborhoods which are in poor condition. The preservation plan …
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Modern radiocarbon offsets within the land snails Cyclophorus: a tropical karst case study from Northern Vietnam
… the SUNDASIA project on the archaeology of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Tràng An (Ninh Bình, Northern Vietnam), a tower karst area of high endemism and habitat insularity. Archaeological sites in the region contain abundant shell middens, composed mainly of terrestrial Cyclophorus …
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Reasserting the Past and Preserving the Future: A Cultural Center in Wadi Rum
… and an appetite to learn more about the site. The phenomenon creates new issues that require creative solutions and interventions. How can architecture provide spaces as a solution to mitigate these issues? The thesis examines the question in the context of the Wadi Rum Protected Area …
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Developing Archaeomagnetic Dating for Neolithic Scotland
… the Scottish Neolithic. Six archaeological sites were extensively sampled producing 26 newly compiled archaeomagnetic directions from over 1200 samples for Neolithic Scotland. Particularly important are results from ongoing excavations at the Ness of Brodgar, situated at the Heart of …
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The Counter-Colonial: The Agency of Architectural Rehabilitation as a form of Resistance in Hebron, Palestine
… where historic and religiously significant built heritage is overlapped by Israeli colonial infrastructure, including settlements, checkpoints, watchtowers, and barricades. Hebron’s built heritage has become the locus where counter-colonial tactics are deployed in response to the ongoing settler …
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Building Roman Britons The Use of Novel Construction Materials in the Development of Roman Bath
… the ceramic building materials (CBM) from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Roman Baths at Bath, UK. Ceramic building materials from much of Roman Britain are understudied, yet our knowledge of the brick and tile from Bath is not limited solely by a paucity of research, rather than by a …
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Design and creation of a virtual world of Petra, Jordan
… presents the design and creation of a 3D virtual world of Petra, Jordan, based on the digital spatial documentation of this UNESCO World Heritage Site by the Zamani project. Creating digital records of the spatial domain of heritage sites is a well-established practice that employs the …
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Evaluation of LiDAR Visualisation Techniques within the National Scenic Area of Orkney
… covers 244 km2 and incorporates the |UNESCO World Heritage Site, The Heart Of<br/>Neolithic Orkney. To date there has been no significant analysis nor interpretation of this<br/>LIDAR data for this region as a whole. Previous research (e.g., Stular et al. 2012) has<br/>demonstrated the …
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Numerical modelling of the shallow reinjection and tracer transport at Nesjavellir Geothermal System, Iceland : an assessment of heat transfer and fluid flow
… as the ecosystem in Lake Thingvellir, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This study investigates the flow path of reinjected liquid and temperature of impacted groundwater for a better management of the discharge and injection in the area. A numerical model of the Nesjavellir warm wastewater …
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Aspects of the spatial and behavioural ecology of Hippopotamus amphibious in the Saint Lucia Estuary, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park (itself a UNESCO World Heritage site), in northern KwaZulu-Natal is not only the largest estuarine system in Africa, but is also home to one of South Africa's largest hippo populations. In this study I explore aspects of the spatial and behavioural ecology of …
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Heritagisation, political action and social justice : Palestine’s Dheisheh refugee camp as a world heritage site
… dissertation strives to present a perception of heritage as a process, and to propose refugee heritage as a counter-narrative for authorised heritage. Its theoretical framework is based on dialectical arguments raised around each emerging question. The dissertation investigates the progression of …
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Housing La Habana Vieja: Reframing the Formal and Informal Vernacular
… of housing in an urban fabric designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site requires consideration of the historic character and how each building contributes to the streetscape. Beyond the facade, one discovers the unique story of each parcel through the transformations that its residents have …
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Tourism, Pilgrimage, and Development in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India
… located in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a designation that reflects both the site's religious and cultural significance. While Bodhgaya is considered the birthplace of Buddhism and is a revered axis mundi for all Buddhist denominations, the town is also located …
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Exploring the eco-hydrological and predator movement effects of floating roads in the context of forest to bog restoration in the Flow Country
… network of linear infrastructure is expanding worldwide as demand for resources increases. Yet the effects of linear infrastructure on the components of ecosystems is poorly understood. Even less is known about if and how these effects could be reversed through removal of roads for habitat …
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Investigating Peatland Margins and Determining the Role of Peatland Margin Characteristics in the Resilience of Blanket Peatland
The Flow Country has recently been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site,<br/>representing a globally rare peatland type called blanket bog. Despite this, many<br/>challenges face the future of this type of peatland, including the increased demand for renewable energy infrastructure, as well as …
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Changes in abundance and distribution of Protea caffra in the central and northern Drakensberg as a consequence of climate and land use change
… changes in populations of Protea caffra at five sites in the central and northern regions of the uKhlahlamba Drakensberg Park, a UNESCO world heritage site. Based on an archaeological study in 1994 that used charcoal remains to compare the size of Protea species populations in the Drakensberg to …
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Peatland Afforestation: Effects and Restoration
… of northern Scotland represents one of the world’s most extensive and ecologically significant blanket bog systems, recently designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This thesis examines the impacts of large-scale non-native conifer afforestation on the biodiversity of this globally …
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Producing the Precolonial: Professional and Popular Lives of Mapungubwe, 1937-2017
… signs and symbols through which the composite and contested imaginaire of Mapungubwe has been historically constructed. Necessarily, it is also an unpicking of the languages of evidence. The work is divided into three parts, each dealing with a different strut in the making of Mapungubwe. …
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A climate change vulnerability assessment of 58 Richtersveld plant species
… part of both a global biodiversity hotspot and a UNESCO world heritage site. However, it is already experiencing significant climate change exposure which is predicted to worsen. Changes in the area's climate are also interacting synergistically with other anthropogenic pressures including mining, …
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Participatory dynamics and public values in World Heritage sites: the case of the World Heritage serial site Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and the Monreale (Italy).
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