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APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL BOTANY
cod. 14766

Academic year 2007/08
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Botanica ambientale e applicata (BIO/03)
Field
Formazione interdisciplinare
Type of training activity
Characterising
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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Learning objectives

<br />Teach about historical-naturalistic emergencies and evolution of the Garden in history.<br />Provide the ability to recognise the various types of historic garden for the purpose of conservation of culture-linked landscapes

Prerequisites

<SPAN AR-SA? New ?Times

Course unit content

<br />Plant heritage as cultural heritage<br />Botany as Naturalis Historia <br />Historical-naturalistic emergencies:<br />Monumental trees. Botanical gardens. Historic herbariums.  <br />Botany in architecture and in the conservation of Gardens<br />Evolution of the garden in history:<br />Oriental gardens (Egyptian, Mesopotamic, Persian). Hellenistic and Roman gardens. Medieval and Arabian-Islamic gardens. The Renaissance garden. The garden between mannerism and Baroque. The garden in the eighteenth century. The garden in the nineteenth century. The garden in the twentieth century. <br />      Historic gardens:<br />      The concept of historic park and garden and protection guidelines. Contributions of botanical research: aspects of method. Cataloguing of historic parkland. Restoration of historic parkland. <br />Botany for conservation of environments and landscapes linked to the culture           <br />      of humanity<br />     Landscape conservation. <br />      Landscapes in the pictorial image.<br />     Landscapes in literature: Literary parks. <br />

Full programme

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Bibliography

Caneva G.,2005 - La Biologia Vegetale per i Beni Culturali. Vol. I/II. Nardini Editore, Firenze.

Teaching methods

<br />Oral lectures and field exercises<br />Oral test <br />LEVEL: characterizing

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