Characterizing Islandscapes: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges Exemplified in the Mediterranean

Vogiatzakis, Ioannis Ν.; Zomeni, Maria; Mannion, Antoinette M.

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“…For example, the extensive coastline is usually neglected in many regional and national land based typologies. This has led to the development of Seascapes Assessment and a call for treating islands as separate entities [28]. Rangelands are important elements of the landscapes, culturally and economically, in the Mediterranean and the study areas examined are no exception.…”

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“…Although the pace of landscape characterization and mapping has been slower in the Mediterranean compared to Northern Europe there has been significant progress in recent years [20,28]). A comparison with the existing typologies which account for Mediterranean landscapes [15,21] revealed that the first study identified 7 landscape types in the whole Mediterranean Basin while the second 11 landscape types at the 3rd level of classification.…”

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Investigating the Diversity and Variability of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes

Vogiatzakis

Manolaki

2017

Land

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Abstract:The aim of the paper is to examine the variability of eastern Mediterranean landscapes using a common mapping framework relying on Landscape Character Mapping (LCM). LCM was adapted to the region's specificities placing emphasis on the area's coastal nature, landform variation, land use, in particular pastoral tradition, and settlement patterns, an important output of this study. We selected six study areas, in four countries namely Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Lebanon, based on their rich cultural and natural heritage, covering a NW to SE gradient of both environmental and cultural settings. We used commonly employed landscape metrics to quantify landscape diversity in the study areas. Similarity in landscape types among study area was measured using Sørensen similarity index. The Kruskall-Walis test was used to test the variability among countries in terms of landscape character variation due to physical and cultural factors. Linear regression was used to assess whether landscape diversity increases with area size. The work has identified and mapped a total of 69 landscape types, of which 18 are rare. Rare landscape types were related to specific geomorphology or intensive anthropogenic activities, which do not occur elsewhere in the East Mediterranean region. The highest similarity was recorded between islands and between mountainous areas. The larger the area the higher is its landscape diversity. This works fills a gap in Mediterranean and sets a benchmark standard for landscape characterization work in the East Mediterranean, so as to enable much greater consistency between countries in future landscape mapping exercises and, ultimately, facilitate trans-boundary cooperation in landscape-scale nature and culture conservation.

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Investigating the Diversity and Variability of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes

Vogiatzakis

Manolaki

2017

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“…A natureza de uma ilha reflete um certo grau de isolamento, e isso pode constituir uma desvantagem (WHITTAKER; FERNANDEZ-PALACIOS, 2007), já que sua porção terrestre pode não oferecer suficiente apoio para comunidades humanas, sem que estas necessitem recorrer aos recursos costeiros ou marinhos. Nesse sentido, a insularidade exerce influência sobre as atividades humanas e pode gerar "dependência" física (VOGIATZAKIS; ZOMENI; MANNION, 2007).…”

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Capacidade Funcional E Fatores Associados Em Idosos Insulares: Uma Revisão Sistemática Da Literatura

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Moreira

Silva

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Objetivo: o objetivo foi realizar uma revisão sistemática da literatura sobre a capacidade funcional e os fatores associados de idosos residentes em ilhas. Estratégia de pesquisa: a busca ocorreu pelacombinação dos descritores “comunicação”, “senso de humor e humor como assunto”, “atividades cotidianas”, “limitação da mobilidade”, “autonomia pessoal”, “cognição”, “ilhas”, “idoso” e “idoso de 80 anos ou mais” e dos correspondentes na língua inglesa, nas bases de dados: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science e Lilacs. Resultados: dos 4761 artigos encontrados, 20 foram selecionados. Fatores individuais, clínicos e os relacionados ao estilo de vida foram identificados. Conclusão: a capacidade funcional de idosos é um fenômeno multifatorial. Poucos artigos são realizados em ilhas e a abordagem do contexto espacial, ambiental dos indivíduos idosos é escassa. Mais estudos com foco nos aspectos ambientais devem ser realizados em ilhas, principalmente nas pequenas em extensão, remotas e com pequenas populações.

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“…To understand Malta as the nodal point of the local, national and the global without falling into the trap of 'islandism', we develop the concept of islandscape (Broodbank, 2000, p.21) for inductive, empirical research on, about and with islands as a further contribution to the debate on relationality within Island Studies. This concept has already received broad attention in geography (Arnaud, 2008), environmental studies (Vogiatzakis, Zomeni & Mannion, 2017), as well as archaeology (Bright, 2011;Frieman, 2008). According to Broodbank (2000), islandscape understands the island with its connections to other islands, to the (EUropean) mainland as well as to and with the sea, and is therefore a much more flexible concept compared to insularity, speaking to concepts like the aquapelago (Hayward, 2012) or approaches as thinking with the archipelago (Pugh, 2016).…”

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1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

Nimführ¹,

Otto²

2020

ISJ

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Even though the relational turn within Island Studies has long revoked the equation of islands with insularity, disconnectedness and backwardness, these ascriptions are still often deterministically attributed to islands, mainly by non-island scholars. Thereby these designations are not only reproduced, but connections, dynamics, different forms of embeddedness and entanglements remain overlooked. This paper has two main goals: (1) Adding to the relational turn in Island Studies by not only arguing for more inductive approaches to seriously engage with these situated and changing manifestations and meaningmakings of islands, and (2) by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malta, we introduce the concept of 'islandscape' (Broodbank 2000) to the Island Studies literature. Through the lens of islandscape, islands can be researched as nodal points of the local, national and global without reproducing 'islandism' while still acknowledging the importance of the island. The combination of-scape and assemblage-thinking which is already present within Island Studies makes it possible to address the tension between global and local and, rather, to look at which concrete, situated assemblages emerge within islandscape. In this sense, we propose to think of the island as islandscape from the very beginning of research, then to show how this islandscape is actually constituted and then to describe partial moments of stabilisation in terms of assemblages.

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Characterizing Islandscapes: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges Exemplified in the Mediterranean

Cited by 21 publications

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Investigating the Diversity and Variability of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes

Investigating the Diversity and Variability of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes

Capacidade Funcional E Fatores Associados Em Idosos Insulares: Uma Revisão Sistemática Da Literatura

1 Doing research on, with and about the island: Reflections on islandscape

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