Territory's management and enhancement

Educational objectives

The course aims to deepen the reading and interpretation of the texts of Italian literature within a gender perspective with a focus on the national and European historical-cultural context.
At the end of the module the student, through the direct reading of some works, will have a good knowledge of the production of the authors who open a space for debate on the role and modalities of gendered perspectives in the studies of Italian literature; he will also be able to exercise good understanding, analysis and critical interpretation skills on the proposed literary texts, independently applying the methodology learned.

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The module aims to reconstruct the history of tourism from the unification of the Italian Kingdom to the end of the Second World War, the goal is to highlight the formation of national identity, the realization of the nationalization of the masses with tourist practices. In addition to outline the consensus reached by fascism at various levels of Italian society with travel in Italy, in Italian colonies or abroad organized by the organizations of the regime. The module aims to provide students with tools to understand the phenomenon of tourism from a historical point of view.

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The course provide participants with the theoretical, methodological and technical tools that are needed in order to understand and to manage local development processes. The main themes are: agglomeration processes, polarization and spatial uneveness across geographical scales; the role of institutions, the "new regionalism" and the non-economic foundations of economic development; local production systems and transnational production networks; the relation between innovation, geographical space and development; Italian and European regional development policies and their most recent evolutions. During the laboratories, participants will select a region, study that region with qualitative, quantitative and cartographic methods, identify a local development strategy and the instruments for its design and implementation.

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The main aim of the course is to provide advanced theoretical interpretative tools for understanding the geographical representation of reality, with reference to cartography and the construction of scenarios for political, administrative and institutional purposes.
The lectures are accompanied by other didactic forms (open debates, seminars, discussion with authors on recently published books, group and individual works) useful for bringing the theoretical notions acquired into the actuality and complexity of reality.
Therefore, the acquisition of critical and judgment skills on the contextual elements that determine / influence the relationships between geography and representation, as well as the public communication of these skills, become specific objectives of the course.
It is realistically expected that at the end of the course the student will have acquired the ability to autonomously reflect on topical issues and great general interest.

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The student will deepen the methods and languages of visual geography through contact with professionals in the field and will acquire skills in the drafting of projects and in the realization of audiovisuals for the purposes of knowledge of the territory

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Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to understand the relationships between population dynamics and economic development and of the differences in demographic behavior between advanced and developing countries; to this end they will have knowledge of policies adopted and statistical data, local, national and international related to population structure and movement; mortality and health; fertility and reproductive health; and migration.
Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to use the theories and methods that explain the relationships between population dynamics and economic development and the differences in demographic behavior between advanced and developing countries.
students will be able to use statistical methods and data at local, national and international level, for
Making judgement: students will develop an autonomous judgment capability on a theoretical and practical perspective, on the population dynamics.
Communication skills: students will develop an attitude for demographic reasoning and the capacity for argumentation on the population dynamics.
Learning skills: students will be able to deal with other subjects of the statistic and demographic field thanks to the basic notions of population dynamics.

Educational objectives

The course of geography teaching, addressing the main issues concerning the learning / teaching processes of geography, highlights the relationships between research and disciplinary teaching and identifies teaching methodologies and tools able to promote in students an appropriate use of vocabulary and categories interpretations of the discipline in order to be able to understand and contextualise the environmental and anthropological characteristics of the territory.

Course topics: geographic skills and the assumptions of the vertical geography curriculum; learning units; teaching practices; direct observation; indirect observation and the tools of geo-graphicity (iconic instruments, literary-linguistic tools, ludiform instruments); space and time; geotechnologies; values in geographic education.

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The course will provide a in-depth vision of European history in its passage from the modern to contemporary. During a first phase, particular attention will be devoted to the impact of the state institutions, the Industrial revolution and the Enlightenment upon the following development of the idea of nations, the gradual decline of the empires and their replacement with the national states. In this context, a first section of the course will analyze in particular the dynamics of the international scenario and the birth of the first sovranational institutions such as the League of Nations. In a second phase the course will focus on more specific issues such as the national minority. question, the refugees, antisemitism in Europe and the process of decolonization. Students will be asked to explain, communicate and interpret the ideas and the historical phenomena. In addition to this, they will be instructed to carry out a documental and archival research in order to prove their maturity in analyzing the documents and frame the historical context of the research through a written text.

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The course aims to provide a broad cognitive framework on the participatory processes that can characterize the planning and governance of the territory and, more generally, the management of problems related to the redevelopment of urban and territorial contexts. The participatory processes will be read critically and characterized according to the characteristics of the process, the subjects involved, the temporal organization, the relationship with the decision-making processes. The dynamics of interaction and the most innovative experiences of neighborhood laboratories and (social and) urban living labs will then be evaluated, at a national and international level, such as the Anglo-Saxon neighborhood houses or the French lieux tiers or the Spanish ateneos cooperativos. The participatory processes will be explored in depth with respect to the broader issues of urban and social regeneration, especially in suburban contexts, where social and economic, but also educational and cultural problems are faced. Attention will be paid
to culturally based urban regeneration processes and those aimed at combating educational poverty. In this context, issues related to the creation of innovative and collaborative subjects will be addressed, especially in the context of social protagonism and mutualism networks, such as educating communities (connected to community educational pacts), energy communities and community cooperatives.

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Starting from a description of the geographic heritage both at a local (Gabinetto di geografia della Sapienza, 1877) and national scale, research practices, cataloging, conservation of geo-cartographic assets will be discussed and experimented in order to enhance geographical knowledge's organization and education

Educational objectives

The specific aim is to enable the student to assist him with targeted and differentiated knowledge for the
inclusion in the future world of work.

Educational objectives

In addition to confirming the ability in research and treatment of sources and bibliographic information, in the management and processing of data, the student will have to produce an original application document with an appropriate cartographic kit, possibly translation and extension of the experiences gained in field of internships and apprenticeships proposed by the Degree Course.

Educational objectives

The module aims to reconstruct the history of tourism from the unification of the Italian Kingdom to the end of the Second World War, the goal is to highlight the formation of national identity, the realization of the nationalization of the masses with tourist practices. In addition to outline the consensus reached by fascism at various levels of Italian society with travel in Italy, in Italian colonies or abroad organized by the organizations of the regime. The module aims to provide students with tools to understand the phenomenon of tourism from a historical point of view.

Educational objectives

The course provide participants with the theoretical, methodological and technical tools that are needed in order to understand and to manage local development processes. The main themes are: agglomeration processes, polarization and spatial uneveness across geographical scales; the role of institutions, the "new regionalism" and the non-economic foundations of economic development; local production systems and transnational production networks; the relation between innovation, geographical space and development; Italian and European regional development policies and their most recent evolutions. During the laboratories, participants will select a region, study that region with qualitative, quantitative and cartographic methods, identify a local development strategy and the instruments for its design and implementation.

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Student will experiment with methods and tools of field research and survey in order to define critical approaches in knowledge and representation of the territory

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Outcomes
The course aims at obtaining knowledge on: plant communities structure, composition, functions and dynamics at different spatial scales, from local to global; methods for the analysis of vegetation; relationships between plants and the environment; plant species distribution models; vegetation dynamics; vegetation science and land management; main vegetation types of Italy.
The course will inform on how to apply the mentioned knowledge to land planning and to the specific projects aimed at forest sustainable management, biodiversity conservation, landscape enhancement and land protection.
The course will allow students to critically analyse reports and plans created by institutions and professionals of the environment sector in a multifunctionality perspective with special reference to sustainable management of natural resources.
The course will prepare students to communicate and collaborate with environment sector practitioners and with a wide range of stakeholders also thanks to the focus on specific terms and concepts as well as on updated data relevant to the sector.
Finally, the students will be guided towards approaches and data sources relative to natural and semi-natural ecosystems that will contribute to their degree of independence in their study and career path.
Dublin descriptors
1. Knowledge and understanding of plant communities structure, composition, functions and dynamics at different spatial scales, from local to global; methods for the analysis of vegetation; relationships between plants and the environment; plant species distribution models; vegetation dynamics; vegetation science and land management; main vegetation types of Italy.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding to land planning and to specific projects aimed at sustainability, biodiversity conservation, landscape enhancement and land protection.
3. Making judgements on reporting and planning documents created by institutions and practitioners of the environment sector by taking into account multifunctionality and a sustainable management of natural resources.
4. Communication skills with environment practitioners and a wide range of stakeholders after learning the specific language and d updated data relevant within the sector.
5. Lifelong learning skills: students will be guided towards an approach and specific data sources relative to natural and semi-natural ecosystems that will allow them to be autonomous in their learning and working path.

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Short notes on geodesy: earth shape, reference surface

Cartography: plane representation of the ellipsoid, maps classification, main cartographic representation

Italian official cartography

Measurement instruments: instrument and methods of angles, distances and level measurement

Survey: survey planning and methods, reference networks

GNSS: positioning by artificial satellites; GPS system; applications

Photogrammetry: aerial and terrestrial photogrammetry; flight planning concepts and photograms taking; map plotting; photogrammetric instruments and workstations (analogical, analytical and digital); aerial triangulation; rectification and orthoproiection (photographic and digital)

Photo interpretation: photogram’s parameters; photogram interpretation; object recognition (lithological structures, vegetation cover.).;

Remote sensing: light structure, light wave properties, photometric quantities; emission and absorption spectra; multispectral photography and scanners; remote sensing systems by satellite: LANDSAT, SPOT, ...; image processing; remote sensing applications.

Educational objectives

To provide fundamental principles of multidimensional statistics for the study of complex phenomena at an exploratory non-probabilistic level. To learn the processes aimed at reducing the quantity of information by creating global synthetic indicators or multidimentional classification models. To experiment such methods in real data matrices in accordance with the data mining approach.

At the end of the course the student will be able to elaborate complex multidimentional data systems deriving from different types of databases. He will be able to choose the data mining technique more suitable to the analysis objective and to the type of data: quantitative variables as well as categorical variables (structured qualitative data) and textual data (unstructured qualitative data).

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The course pursues the aims of medical geography, which focuses the attention around the territorial distribution of different pathologies and the causes of these distributions, as well as the different determinants of health which can be addressed in order to improve the quality of life of different communities. The course aims to provide specific keys which make it possible to analyze a series of aspects concerning the relationship between environmental and behavioral risk factors and population health. Moreover, the course provides methodological and operational tools that permit to move towards the aims of safety geography, where geotechnologies can provide notable added value to move towards better health-territorial planning and in the perspective of education and awareness of the population.

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The study of research methods, in particular geo-oceanographical research, as part of the course is initially marked by the literature search and information can be derived from sources and data used by banks (including what can now be easily acquired by internet). It will take into consideration how collecting and analyzing data and hence their representation (also the basic mapping methods), followed by the study of trends and then forecasts of geo-oceanographical phenomena.

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The goal of the course is to supply the fundamentals about the most important up-to-date techniques for acquiring, managing and representing geographical information. The course is an advanced follow up of the course of Surveying and Cartography.
Starting from the fundamentals of geodesy (reference system and coordinates systems), satellite positioning systems and Earth observation satellites are illustrated and the most common surveying techniques are described, also through field exercitations.
Part of the course is finally devoted to modern platforms for crowdsourced geographical information (Open Street Map, Open Level Up).

As overall transversal competences, starting from the specific geomatic methods and techniques, students will be trained to develop skills to design experiments encompassing geodata acquisition, analysis and interpretation. Moreover, the student will get the competences enabling the continuous and autonomous update of their methodological and technical knowledge during their professional life.

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Tourism is one of the main productive activities of our country and the sustainable tourism is one of the new models of economic development engines based on the principles of 'Green Economy'. The students will acquire specific skills regarding valorization concepts, integration and environmental sustainability for tourism purposes and then they will gain useful knowledge to the promotion of environmental and natural resources by identifying the potential to make them value and make them more attractive.

Educational objectives

The specific aim is to enable the student to assist him with targeted and differentiated knowledge for the
inclusion in the future world of work.

Educational objectives

In addition to confirming the ability in research and treatment of sources and bibliographic information, in the management and processing of data, the student will have to produce an original application document with an appropriate cartographic kit, possibly translation and extension of the experiences gained in field of internships and apprenticeships proposed by the Degree Course.