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III World Meeting on Terraced Landscapes
6 October 2016 - 15 October 2016 @ 17:00
Venezia – Padova, Italy
Terraced Landscapes: Choosing the Future
Terraced landscapes are all over the world. They are the tangible evidence of how human life can express itself in the steepest slopes of mountain and coastal areas of the world.
Despite the multi-disciplinary values that terraced landscapes represent throughout the world were scarcely appreciated in the past decades, indeed the interest in their wise management and broader understanding has been constantly growing since the end of the past century. Some of the terraced landscapes have been recognised at international level for their importance (terraces of Ifugao in Philippines, Yuanyang terraces in Yunnan ? China, Bali in Indonesia, the Italian Cinque Terre and Costiera Amalfitana included in the UNESCO World Heritage List). However, many other terraced landscapes in the world are abandoned or facing the same risks of collapse, banalisation or destructive urbanisation, loss of their precious intangible knowledge and soul heritage.
The Third World Meeting on Terraced Landscapes will provide a powerful impetus for international efforts to protect and value terraced landscapes. It offers to the participants from other continents a profound insight into the remarkable heritage of terraced landscapes in Italy and in the surrounding countries of the Mediterranean basin and central Europe. Caring for terraced landscapes means that these landscapes can meet different needs such as cultural and historical value, environmental and hydrogeological functions, quality of life, community empowerment and sustainable development. We need to experiment and to share new sensible visions, new strategies and functions for terraces and their inhabitants in term of capability, inclusiveness, fulfilment and happiness. For all these reasons, the International Terraced Landscapes Alliance and its Italian Branch and the 10 main partners of the field sites have the privilege of welcoming you at the Meeting ?Terraced Landscapes: Choosing the Future? from 6th to 15th October 2016 in Padua and Venice: a unique opportunity to participate in the generation of ideas and in the formulation of multiple scenarios on the future of terraces in the world.
INFO: www.terracedlandscapes2016.it