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Trabajo presentado al 8th International Symposium on the Conservation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin (ISCMMB): "Monument Damage Hazards and Rehabilitation Technologies", celebrado del 31 de mayo al 2 de junio de 2010 en Patras (Grecia).-- et al. ; The risk assessment of the damage, which can undergo the historical heritage, is very useful for its conservation. The risk maps give information about the probability of the main hazards in a region. These risk maps are tools to be used to identify, evaluate and prioritize the restoration actions on a degraded monument and to forecast the preventive maintenance budget, and they even allow political strategies for the conservation. As a good risk assessment needs of a large number of risk variables and vulnerability parameters to be analyzed and compared, these studies are impractical due to the excessive time consumption, and the high cost of the analysis. For this purpose, GIS (Geographical Information System) are usually employed. This technique has some obvious advantages to the risks analysis application for cultural heritage conservation, such as the capability of simultaneous risks assessment and geographical references. On the other hand, the vulnerability study implies the conservation analysis in situ, and it needs adapted protocol for archaeological heritage. In this study, we present the first results of a project for the risk assessment of the historical town of Mérida (Spain). A GIS application (ArcGIS software) has been used to reference and a vulnerability index has been employed for the analysis of the conservation degree of three monuments: the Arch of Trajan, the Aqueduct of the Miracles and the Roman Bridge). ; Peer Reviewed

"Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for these similarities and differences have been heavily debated, with attention focusing in particular on the roles played on this frontier by locals and immigrants in Greek Sicily's remarkable cultural efflorescence. Polarized positions have resulted. On one side, scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one of a long line of incomers whom Sicily and its inhabitants shape. On the other side, the ancient Greeks have been viewed in a hierarchical manner with the Sicilian Greeks acting as the source of innovation and achievement in shaping their Sicily, while at the same being lesser to homeland Greece, the center of their world. Neither of these two extremes is completely satisfactory. What is lacking in this debate is a basic work on social and economic history that gathers the historical and archaeological evidence and deploys it to test the various historical models proposed over the past two hundred years. This book represents the first ever such systematic and comprehensive endeavor. It adopts a broadly based interdisciplinary approach that combines classical and prehistoric studies, texts, and material culture, and a variety of methods and theories to put the history of Greek Sicily on a completely new footing. While Sicily and Greece had conjoined histories right from the start, their relationship was not one of center and periphery or "colonial" in any sense, but of an interdependent and mutually enriching diaspora. At the same time, local conditions and peoples, including Phoenician migrants, also shaped the evolution of Sicilian Greek societies and economies. This book reveals and explains the similarities and differences with developments in Greece and brings greater clarity to the parts played by locals and immigrants in ancient Sicily's impressive achievements"--

In the past decade, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by political tragedy as successive governments have failed to settle the grievances of the Tamil minority in a way acceptable to the majority Sinhala population. The new Premadasa presidency faces huge economic and political problems with large sections of the island under the control of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) and militant separatist Tamil groups operating in the north and south. This book is not a conventional political history of Sri Lanka. Instead, it attempts to shed fresh light on the historical roots of the ethnic crisis a.

In this paper I discuss some relevant theses of Caranti?s Kant?s Political
Legacy, whose aim is to provide a consistent account of how we could develop
Kant?s political thought and see to what extent Kant?s insights can help us
to critically understand the 21st century?s political world. First, I will
focus on autonomy as the ground of dignity and discuss Caranti?s arguments
against the exclusiveness of the Categorical Imperative as the sole
principle of true moral agency. Second, I will take into account Caranti?s
views on history and consider whether human rational nature can be regarded
as containing teleological - though non-biological - elements, thereby
questioning Caranti?s Separability Thesis.

There is a strong contemporary consensus that in early modem England there was not a widespread and intentionally repressive censorship or regulatory regime; rather, analysis of specific cases shows that interven­tions were often quite exceptional responses to particular crises. To use a military metaphor, this was 'smart' censorship, suppression precisely targeted in order to minimize collateral damage. One of the advantages of the 'suppression' model, Cyndia Clegg argues, is that it avoids the assumption that 'imaginative writer', 'Catholic apologist', and 'religious reformer' all wrote under the same constraints.1 All the same, such a model is not always useful when the 'imaginative writer' does not steer clear of the material of the 'religious reformer'. The Protestant history play of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean era is, I will argue, an example of 'smart' suppression of religious writings (and, indeed, the larger campaigns against non-conformists of which they were part) inflicting a largely underestimated amount of collateral damage upon the stage. In tum, I will argue that one particular late-Elizabethan satirical project -the stage representation of the puritan - was itself enabled by this collateral damage. 1. Cyndia Susan Clegg, Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 222-3.

This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an extended period of time, this book connects the past with the present, and provides much-needed literature on city growth and how they became complex laboratories of prosperity.0This book offers an innovative interdisciplinary and international perspective, which will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese urban studies, as well Chinese politics and society.

This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and economic insecurity. This book will consider how these threats are to be encountered and countered in an urban age. It will focus on the issue of human knowledge and self-awareness, just as Hannah influential The Human Condition did half a century ago. The Human Condition is now The Urban Condition. And it is this condition that will define human prospects in an age of default and risk.