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Zusatztext "Waterways and the Cultural Landscape offers glimpses of waterways' future prospects! noting! for example! the potential for digital appreciation. One might hope the editors' optimistic vision for human-water relations comes to fruition. This will only be known through greater attention to all types of waterscapes! furthering the scholastic endeavour this book initiates and celebrates." - Hannah Pitt! Sustainable Places Research Institute! Cardiff University! Wales UK"This book collects some of the most meaningful contributions on this emerging topic that Vallerani and Visentin have successfully attempted to frame and realise. The contributions of the two editors serve the purpose to provide an overarching andoriginal reflectionon the culturalimportanceofhydrography andeveryday life inwaterscapes! and therefore of the social relevance of historic waterways! the two main partsin which the book is articulated reaffirm the centrality of two broad topics traditionally well established in cultural landscape studies." - Giulio Verdini in Buildings & Landscapes Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 25(2):118-120"A work such as this! featuring a comprehensive discussion of the inland waterways from the cultural perspective and with a strong focus on their use and potential for tourism! islong overdue. The book starts with an introduction by one of the editors! Vallerani! setting the scenein his eloquent and beautifully crafted argument for the fluvial sensibilities towards thesocio-natural world! as well as for the 'fluvial sense of place'." - Maarja Kaaristo in Tourism Geographies 21(1):1-3"The volume arrives with laudable punctuality an investigative topic of great interest: the relationship between inland waterways and cultural landscapes. A further aspect of particular interest in the volume isrepresented by the cut comparative approach! which! by comparing case studies in several European countries! offers the opportunity to reflect on the relationship between geographical typology (the way of internal water) and its territorial incarnations in different countries and regions! expression of a fruitful argumentative tension between a reading that favors affinities and another complementary perspective that returns instead the differences and uniqueness related to individual places." - Davide Papotti! Semestrale di studi e ricerche di Geografia"The editors refer to a 'watery turn' (p.246) among the many disciplines that have a bearing on this topic! making it a good time to develop our understanding of the many facets of waterway culture in the past and how it might be explored as heritage in the present.The authors and editors have put together a useful collection that is both intriguing and encouraging."- Antony Firth in theThe International Journal of Nautical Archeology! 48 (1): 255-256 Informationen zum Autor Francesco Vallerani is professor of geography at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy. His main fields of expertise are human and cultural geography, landscape evolution and heritage, with special focuses on waterscapes and water-based sustainable tourism in both European and South American countries. Francesco Visentin is a human geographer with research interests in sustainable tourism and cultural history. His research focuses on water and rural landscapes changes especially in Italy, Spain and England. He is currently a fellow research at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, involved in some projects concerning cultural heritage tourism. Klappentext This book explores the role of waterways as a form of heritage, culture, and sense of place and the potential of this to underpin the development of cultural tourism. With a multidisciplinary approach across the social sciences and humanities, chapters explore how the control and management of water flows are among some of the most significant human activit...
