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Publicação revisada por pares
Janeiro 2021
Chipre

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations state that cities and human settlements need to be more inclusive, safe and resilient. In Europe cities have experienced dramatic physical, social and economic changes during the last decades while historic centres of European cities, among the most important assets of the European cultural heritage, are living paradoxes.

Artigos e Livros
Fevereiro 2019
Egito
Marrocos
Iémen
Tunísia
Estados Unidos
Espanha
África do Sul
Israel
Chile
Usbequistão
Itália
Austrália
Chipre
Países Baixos
Malta
Iraque
Índia
Paquistão
China
Brasil

This report aims to provide a conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity in agriculture. It has been prepared by a team of FAO staff and consultants in the framework of the project `Coping with water scarcity: the role of agriculture?, and has been discussed at an Expert Consultation meeting organized in FAO, Rome in December 2009 on the same subject.

FAO Support to Land Consolidation in Europe and Central Asia During 2002-2018 cover image
Publicação revisada por pares
Fevereiro 2019
Ásia Central
Chipre
Turquia
Europa
Grécia
Espanha

Shortly after the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was founded in 1945, the organization had started to support member countries addressing structural problems in agriculture with land fragmentation and small holding and farm sizes through the development of land consolidation instruments (Binns, 1950).

Artigos e Livros
Janeiro 2019
Argélia
Estados Unidos
Samoa
Peru
Indonésia
Tonga
Costa do Marfim
Congo
Guiana
Camarões
Chipre
Malásia
Belize
Tanzânia
Botswana
Etiópia
Gabão
Ruanda
Uruguai
Nepal
Itália
Sudão

The present study, by the Chief of the Agrarian and Water Law Section of the FAO Legislation Branch, is intended to explore in greater depth the value of legislation to the land use planning process.

Publicação revisada por pares
Dezembro 2018
Chipre

This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the relationship between sanctuaries and the territoriality of the Iron Age polities of Cyprus. The sanctuary site of Agia Irini, at the locality Alonia, is used as a case-study to test hypotheses regarding the connection between extra-urban sacred space and the formation of political and cultural identities.

Publicação revisada por pares
Dezembro 2018
Chipre

Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (SeSaLaC) is a systematic archaeological survey project of the University of Cyprus in the Xeros River valley in the Larnaka district in Cyprus. This article aims to present a first synthesis of the diachronic settlement pattern in the region.

Publicação revisada por pares
Dezembro 2018
Chipre

During the Early Roman period in the Mediterranean (ca. 30 BC–330 AD), the key central places that distinguished socio-political landscapes were towns. These urban centers functioned as economic and administrative focal points that were controlled by local elites who oversaw wealth redistribution and maintained a dialectical relationship with Rome that mutually benefitted both parties.

Publicação revisada por pares
Setembro 2018
Chipre

This paper examines how water shaped people’s interaction with the landscape in Cyprus during the Bronze Age. The theoretical approach is drawn from the new materialisms, effectively a ‘turn to matter’, which emphasises the very materiality of the world and challenges the privileged position of human agents over the rest of the environment.

Publicação revisada por pares
Junho 2018
Chipre

This paper examines the relationship between site location, resource procurement, and political economy in the context of three localised centres of settlement—Vasilia, Vounous, and Lapithos—which succeeded each other in the narrow, naturally bounded north coastal strip of Cyprus during the approximately 750 years of the Early and Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2450–1700 BC).

Artigos e Livros
Junho 2018
Argélia
Qatar
Egito
Marrocos
Iémen
Tunísia
Síria
Líbia
Iraque
Turquia
Oman
Jordânia
Mauritânia
Chipre
Emirados Árabes Unidos
Irã
Kuwait
Sudão
Bahrein
Arábia Saudita
Líbano

The report assesses the occurrence and impacts of drought, the current policies underlying drought management as well as the mitigation measures and responses adopted in the Near East and North Africa region, with a focus on the Agriculture Sector.

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