Riparia, here encompassing both river banks and shorelines, represent inherently unstable landscapes, but which have proved of fundamental importance to human activities. These essays look at Roman responses to riparian environments, presenting regional case-studies, and analysing attempts to manage these landscapes, as well as their depiction in legal, agronomic and literary contexts. French text.
Riparia, here encompassing both river banks and shorelines, represent inherently unstable landscapes, but which have proved of fundamental importance ...
RIPARIA is a concept encompassing the complex environment of watersides and having its semantic roots in the Roman world. It is constructed on the basis of land use patterns and economic activities (colonization, urbanization, exploitation of natural resources). The contributions to this volume present the challenges facing ancient and modern preindustrial societies in managing such areas. They highlight the role of social representations of watersides and their management (risk management, ecosystem services, cultural heritage) as an interface between the natural and the social systems, in...
RIPARIA is a concept encompassing the complex environment of watersides and having its semantic roots in the Roman world. It is constructed on the bas...
