Culture and European wetlands
Posted on Friday, December 10th, 2004
A European Regional Meeting of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, 1971) was held in Yerevan (Armenia) on 04-08 December 2004. The cultural values of wetlands were discussed in a workshop on inventories and monitoring. Professor [...]
continue readingCo-operation on the Lower Neretva River
Posted on Friday, October 1st, 2004
The Neretva Delta in Croatia is a major Mediterranean wetland, a Ramsar site, characterised by a unique type of agriculture, which produces an extremely interesting cultural landscape. The Roman settlement of Narona, built on an [...]
continue readingLandscape conference on the islands of Lemnos and Lesbos
Posted on Sunday, September 19th, 2004
The Permanent European Conference for the Study of Rural Landscapes (PECSRL) was held on the Greek islands of Lemnos and Lesbos on 15-21 September 2004. Ably organised by the Department of Geography of the University [...]
continue readingSacred natural sites in developed countries
Posted on Sunday, September 19th, 2004
Since September 2004, Med-INA is co-ordinating the Delos Initiative, an action on sacred natural sites in developed countries. This initiative is being developed in the framework of the Task Force on Cultural and Spiritual Values [...]
continue readingMediterranean survey of cultural wetland sites
Posted on Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
In early September 2004, within the activities of the Mediterranean Wetlands Working Group on Culture, Med-INA circulated a questionnaire to several Mediterranean sites with significant cultural interest. The purpose of this survey is to identify [...]
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