Paesaggio Costituzione Cemento. La Battaglia per l'Ambiente contro il Degrado Civile

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Notes

1 I am translating ‘paesaggio’ as cultural landscape (‘paesaggio’ being the expression of the intervention of the human being on the natural environment over the course of centuries), and ‘ambiente’ as environment. I found it more difficult to translate ‘territorio’, which in the context of this book also has a socio-cultural connotation, in many cases of a regional character. I translate it as ‘local district’, in the sense of a circumscribed geographical area where human activities are performed and in which the local community finds its space of reference.

2 My translation. The original text reads: ‘La Repubblica promuove lo sviluppo della cultura e la ricerca scientifica e tecnica. Tutela il paesaggio e il patrimonio storico e artistico della Nazione.’

3 My translation. The original reads: ‘…concorrono a preservare la memoria della comunità nazionale e del suo territorio e a promuovere lo sviluppo della cultura (Codice dei beni culturali e del paesaggio, 2008, art. 1 c. 2, cited the book under review, p. 260)