Analisi e rappresentazione dei paesaggi - ENG

ANALYSIS AND REPRESENTATION OF LANDSCAPES

Prof. Stefania Cerutti

Course Code: E0251
Subject code: M‐GGR/02
8 ECTS – 64 hours
Location: Novara



Educational aims

The course aims at providing, on the one hand, some basic knowledge, supplementary to the course of Fundamentals of geography, which are essential for the analysis and interpretation of the territorial organization of tourism, of the conditions and of the effects of its development in various geographical scales. On the other hand, it will provide theoretical and practical knowledge, which are fundamental for the preparation of geographical-regional monographs for tourists and are preparatory to the planning of travel and touristic itineraries.
Starting from the methodologies and tools useful for the analysis and the  representation of natural landscapes, the course will explore later the wider issue of geographical and social landscapes, of cultural landscapes, with reference to the relationship between geography and other disciplines that deal with landscape (from architecture to cinematography).
In summary, the course will enable students to acquire skills and capacity to carry out activities and initiatives such as: travel guide, technician in planning and organization of tour packages, travel agent and tour operator, operator in local tourism companies, operator in the planning and programming context and in the  territorial promotion at various levels of public governance.


Content of the course

PART I: Natural Landscapes
Natural components and determinants
The river systems and forms of vegetation of the main types of climate
The forms of high ground and their determinants
Large regions and landscapes of nature
The equatorial landscape or rainforest
The landscape of tropical savannas
The landscape of hot and cold deserts
The tropical mountain landscape
The subtropical landscape or warm temperate
The temperate landscape of fresh westerly winds
The boreal landscapes of the northern cold temperate
Seminival, mountain sub-nival and perennial ice landscapes
PART II: geographical and social landscapes
Conceptions of the relationship “man / nature” in geography
Examples of possibilist and historicist interpretations
Rural landscapes
Urban landscapes
Industrial landscapes
PART III: Cultural landscapes
The World Heritage Sites
The European Landscape Convention
Cultural landscapes in Italy
Plans and programs
Some examples


Prerequisites

None.

Course Texts

During the course the lecture notes will be distributed ( available on Moodle)
R. Biasutti, Il paesaggio terrestre, UTET, Torino, u.e., (available on Moodle and in the  library)
A. Pecora, Ambiente geografico e società umane, Torino, Loescher, u.e (available on Moodle and in the  library)

For further informations, please refer to the course page on D.I.R at:
https://eco.dir.unipmn.it/course/view.php?id=257
https://eco.dir.unipmn.it/


Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars with exercises.


Examination

Written test and evaluation of exercises.