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Contribution of Earth Observation and Geospatial Information for Urban Planning of Historic Cities’ Centres: The Case Study of Nicosia, Cyprus

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Cyprus
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
land administration
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations state that cities and human settlements need to be more inclusive, safe and resilient. In Europe cities have experienced dramatic physical, social and economic changes during the last decades while historic centres of European cities, among the most important assets of the European cultural heritage, are living paradoxes. They are defined as “a collection of beauty, icon of well-being, model of sustainability, but abandoned”.
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The Cypriot Extra-Urban Sanctuary as a Central Place: the Case of Agia Irini

Volume 7 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2018
Cyprus
This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the relationship between sanctuaries and the territoriality of the Iron Age polities of Cyprus. The sanctuary site of Agia Irini, at the locality Alonia, is used as a case-study to test hypotheses regarding the connection between extra-urban sacred space and the formation of political and cultural identities.
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The River as an Economic Asset: Settlement and Society in the Xeros Valley in Cyprus

Volume 7 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2018
Cyprus
Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (SeSaLaC) is a systematic archaeological survey project of the University of Cyprus in the Xeros River valley in the Larnaka district in Cyprus. This article aims to present a first synthesis of the diachronic settlement pattern in the region. After a short introduction on the area and the SeSaLaC project, we attempt to identify and interpret settlement evolution and landscape changes in the region, from early prehistory to Late Antiquity.
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Transforming Culture on an Insula Portunalis: Port Cities as Central Places in Early Roman Cyprus

Volume 7 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2018
Cyprus
Urban Tenure
urban areas
During the Early Roman period in the Mediterranean (ca. 30 BC–330 AD), the key central places that distinguished socio-political landscapes were towns. These urban centers functioned as economic and administrative focal points that were controlled by local elites who oversaw wealth redistribution and maintained a dialectical relationship with Rome that mutually benefitted both parties.
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Watery Entanglements in the Cypriot Hinterland

Volume 7 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2018
Cyprus
land
research
This paper examines how water shaped people’s interaction with the landscape in Cyprus during the Bronze Age. The theoretical approach is drawn from the new materialisms, effectively a ‘turn to matter’, which emphasises the very materiality of the world and challenges the privileged position of human agents over the rest of the environment.
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Shifting Centres: Site Location and Resource Procurement on the North Coast of Cyprus over the Longue Durée of the Prehistoric Bronze Age

Volume 7 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2018
Cyprus
Urban Tenure
urban areas
This paper examines the relationship between site location, resource procurement, and political economy in the context of three localised centres of settlement—Vasilia, Vounous, and Lapithos—which succeeded each other in the narrow, naturally bounded north coastal strip of Cyprus during the approximately 750 years of the Early and Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2450–1700 BC). Cyprus is home to abundant copper sulphide ores and was linked to the international metal trade in the first phase of the Early Bronze Age and again in the Middle Bronze Age.
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Investigating the Diversity and Variability of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes

Volume 6 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon
geographical information systems
The aim of the paper is to examine the variability of eastern Mediterranean landscapes using a common mapping framework relying on Landscape Character Mapping (LCM). LCM was adapted to the region’s specificities placing emphasis on the area’s coastal nature, landform variation, land use, in particular pastoral tradition, and settlement patterns, an important output of this study.
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A Stakeholders’ Analysis of Eastern Mediterranean Landscapes: Contextualities, Commonalities and Concerns

Volume 6 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece
land stakeholders
This study aims at demonstrating and critically assessing high-level landscape stakeholders’ perceptions and understandings of landscape-related issues, threats and problems, in the Eastern Mediterranean, through a purposive comparative research survey of four case studies: Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Lebanon.
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FAO Support to Land Consolidation in Europe and Central Asia During 2002-2018

Experiences and way forward

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2019
Central Asia, Cyprus, Turkey, Europe, Greece, Spain
VGGT
land reform
land management
land consolidation
land markets
capacity development
farmers
development agencies
Shortly after the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was founded in 1945, the organization had started to support member countries addressing structural problems in agriculture with land fragmentation and small holding and farm sizes through the development of land consolidation instruments (Binns, 1950). During the 1950s and 1960s, FAO provided technical assistance to the development of land consolidation in member countries in Europe such as Turkey, Greece, Spain and Cyprus, but also in the Near East and Asia (Meliczek, 1973).
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Transferring Landscape Character Assessment from the UK to the Eastern Mediterranean: Challenges and Perspectives

Peer-reviewed publication
Cyprus
land use
Landscape character assessment (LCA) has a significant contribution to make as a spatial framework for the emerging concept of ‘multi-functional landscapes’, a landscape providing a range of functions, services, and human-derived benefits. The paper reviews the development of LCA in Northwest Europe with a brief description of more recent LCA projects in a Mediterranean context. This is followed by a comparative description of the Living Landscapes approach developed in the UK as applied to Cyprus.