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Date of publication Sep 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
The Delta Regional Park and Citizens' Participation
The Regional Park of the Po River Delta1 was set up in 1988 (it belongs to a Consortium of Public Bodies). It extends over 54,000 hectares of land and stretches across 45 km of the Italian Eastern coastline (45 km of the more than 90 km that go between the provinces of Ferrara and Ravenna)2 and is one of the largest and most significant natural parks in Italy.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Consensus and coordination in park policy
I would like to start with a brief news item in the August 1999 issue of National Geographic which gives some food for thought: "With 5,000 climbing routes, such as Double Dogleg and Walk on the Wild Side, California's Joshua Tree National Park attracts about 140,000 enthusiasts a year to test their skill on granite boulders. But some visitors view their metal bolts as defacements hammered into rocks.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Consensus and partecipation: the role of natural parks
Natural parks are a place where science communicates with the public, involving dimensions ranging from the knowledge of living species to the relationship between man and nature, the environmental policy decisions and the anthropic impact assessments. Natural parks are therefore an important arena for scientific communication where the "shared participation" tools play a fundamental role. To this end, we report a few international experiences that illustrate the role of the interest holders and the importance of coordination of the parties involved in the management of parks.
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Metaphor and approximation of the world
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Elements for a geography of the metaphor in science
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Metaphors and science communication
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
Against the metaphor
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Commentary
The metaphors, Golden Gates that move the categories of our world
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Date of publication Dec 21, 2003 Category: Commentary
Évariste Galois, a tragic romantic hero
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