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Searching for the determinants of world heritage listing: an econometric analysis
The present paper provides empirical evidence of the main determinants affecting WorldHeritage listing across countries and time. While World Heritage represents the most relevant tangible cultural asset for the humankind, little research has been conducted to understand the conditions influencing the process of sites inscription. Using panel data, we provide a preliminary investigation about the relationship between world heritage sites per country and economic, social and institutional variables. In addition, we test whether additional political factors, such as the country involvement in the World Heritage Committee, influence inscription of national heritage sites in the list. The paper contributes to the cultural economics literature by addressing new insights on the determinants affecting the valorization of cultural heritage
What if Hayek goes shopping in the bazaar?
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the peculiar institutional features of two retail markets: the middle eastern Bazaar and the western Mall (shopping center). We study the informational functions and performance of the different market institutions using an Agent Based Computational Economics (ACE) model under the assumption of behavioral learning by agents. Sellers decide which price setting strategy to adopt whereas buyers form their price beliefs exploring the market and decide which price to accept. The agents learn how to adapt and behave within the specific institutional framework to carry out their economic transactions, but market institutions, as mechanisms to coordinate information of market participants are expected to affect the price dynamics. The main area of interest concerns the question of whether the economic argument on the presumed underperformance of bazaar institutions respect to more competitive markets holds true or it is necessary a reassessment on it.Agent's beliefs; learning; adaptive behavior; market institutions; price dynamics
The city mouse and the country mouse: the geography of creativity and cultural production in Italy
Through census employment data we analyze the evolving structure of the Italian cultural economy and highlights diverging spatial and organizational patterns of cultural production systems in urban and regional areas. Whilst large metropolitan areas remain the more important loci of cultural content production and consumption, craft-based sectors and creative systems of design have a tendency to locate in non-metropolitan centers. Based on the historical formation of manufacturing districts and on the emergence of Rome and Milan as âworld citiesâ, the Italian cultural economy provides an interesting case study to analyze the geographical patterns of different cultural product industries. We extend previous literature on the geography of the cultural economy by offering new insights as to conditions in which metropolitan and rural areas emerge as leading centers of cultural production and creativity.
Enhancing the valorisation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: a Pigouvian Approach
The aim of this paper is to cope with the disequilibrium affecting World Heritage Sites as to the conditions of their conservation and the resources available for their valorisation. We propose a tax-based mechanism divided into three phases. The first one aims at providing an objective approach to measure the needs and diversity of World Heritage Sites. The second phase presents valorisation strategies to generate new economic resources from cultural tourism. The third one illustrates the tax mechanism based on collecting resources trough an earmarked tax on tourist activities and redistributing these resources at a regional scale. Our proposal is a contribution to the growing literature on Unesco World Heritage sites and it may be useful to ground the decision making of the recently formed Unesco Centres aimed at raising funds for the World Heritage conservation.
Loving Cultural Heritage Private Individual Giving and Prosocial Behavior
The aim of this paper is to analyse patterns of private individual giving to Cultural Heritage institutions in Italy. Based on the emerging economic literature on pro-social behavior, we carried out a Contingent Valuation survey to assess individualsâ willingness to donate to museums and heritage organizations according to different conditions and set of incentives. Our findings reveal that intrinsic motivations and accountability of the recipient institutions may be more effective drivers for eliciting charitable giving than the usually proposed fiscal incentives. The results provide avenues for future empirical research and policy suggestions for fund raising cultural institutions.Charitable Giving, Cultural Heritage, Contingent Valuation, Pro-social Behavior
Loving Cultural Heritage. Private individual giving and prosocial behavior
The aim of this paper is to analyse patterns of private individual giving to Cultural Heritage institutions in Italy. Based on the emerging economic literature on pro-social behavior, we carried out a Contingent Valuation survey to assess individualsâ willingness to donate to museums and heritage organizations according to different conditions and set of incentives. Our findings reveal that intrinsic motivations and accountability of the recipient institutions may be more effective drivers for eliciting charitable giving than the usually proposed fiscal incentives. The results provide avenues for future empirical research and policy suggestions for fund raising cultural institutions.
GEOLOGICAL RELIEF MAP COLLECTIONS IN POST-UNIFICATION ITALY
La collezione di plastici geologici dellâUniversitĂ di Modena e Reggio Emilia ha un importante
valore scientifico, economico e storico-culturale. Essa Ăš composta da undici
rilievi in gesso e carta dipinti, di varia dimensione, realizzati a partire dalla fine del XIX
secolo da disegnatori e cartografi italiani. La storia di questi rilievi tridimensionali si
lega alle vicende dellâItalia Unita e agli studi geologici avviati con il progetto della Carta
Geologica dâItalia. I plastici venivano spesso presentati alle esposizioni universali ed ai
congressi nazionali e internazionali in quanto facili strumenti di comunicazione cartografica
utili a promuovere le risorse del paese e a favorirne una crescita economica.The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia holds an important collection of geological
models of great historic, scientific, economic and cultural value. The collection
consists of eleven three-D models of different-size, made of colored gypsum plaster
and paper. They were created by Italian mappers between the end of the 19th and
the beginning of the XXth century. Their history interlaces to that of Italian Unification,
in fact the models have been built based on geological studies developed by
the Italian Geological Map Project officially started in 1861, the same year of the
creation of the Italian State. They were showed in international congresses and exhibitions
to promote the Italian natural and mining resources and support the economic
growth
THE ROLE OF CARTOGRAPHY IN HERITAGE EDUCATION. THE STONES TELLING STORIES PROJECT
Lâimportante ruolo educativo che il patrimonio culturale Ăš in grado di svolgere, nei confronti
del pubblico scolastico e della cittadinanza in genere, trova nella cartografia un
valido sostegno. âRacconti di pietraâ Ăš un progetto di educazione al patrimonio culturale
che il Museo di Scienze della Terra dellâUniversitĂ di Modena e Reggio Emilia sta
portando avanti da alcuni anni in collaborazione con le scuole secondarie superiori del
territorio e le istituzioni culturali nazionali e locali. Il progetto intende contribuire alla
diffusione del sapere scientifico ed al crescere della consapevolezza del valore del patrimonio
culturale attraverso percorsi di scoperta guidati dagli studenti, che trovano
nella cartografia uno strumento di lettura e di narrazione del territorio e della sua evoluzione.âStones telling storiesâ is an education project related to cultural heritage to spread
scientific knowledge and awareness of the value of cultural heritage, using mapping
as guide of discovery trails. The Earth Sciences Museum of the UniversitĂ di Modena
e Reggio Emilia has been carrying out it since 2010 in partnership with high schools
and national and municipal cultural institutions. The 2013 edition has been among
the winners of the initiative: âI love Cultural Heritage: call for proposals for the valorisation
of cultural heritageâ organised by the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the
Region Emilia Romagna. It will involve over 150 school students from three towns
of the Modena province: Modena, Finale Emilia and Sassuolo. Their involvement
will provide an opportunity to expand the network of knowledge and skills between
school and museum with the intent to promote and to reconstruct, in a joint perspective,
the cultural heritage of the province of Modena that the recent earthquake
of the 2012 May deeply damaged
EDUCATIONAL CARTOGRAPHYC STORIES
La ricerca presentata in questo lavoro vuole essere una testimonianza di come il mondo
della Scuola, lâUniversitĂ e le Istituzioni possano collaborare fra di loro per promuovere
strategie di educazione al paesaggio sfruttando le potenzialitĂ educative e narrative delle
carte. Le esperienze didattiche sviluppate dalle scuole nellâambito del progetto hanno
portato studenti di qualunque etĂ e persone in situazioni di disagio e disabilitĂ a conoscere
meglio il territorio locale attraverso la costruzione di narrazioni cartografiche dei
luoghi da loro vissuti.This paper shows a case study of an educational project on landscape based on mapping
teaching created with the involvment of local Environmental Agencies, Education
Authorities, University and School. The project suggests some guidelines for
engaging students and disabled to know their territory using maps like telling tools
âTHE LANDSCAPE IN CARTOGRAPHYâ: THE ACHIEVEMENT OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT
âGemma 1786â, il Museo del Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dellâUniversitĂ di Modena e Reggio
Emilia, ha avviato un nuovo progetto di valorizzazione e di divulgazione del suo patrimonio
scientifico e storico-culturale.
Questa rinnovata attivitĂ museale ha portato alla realizzazione di specifiche iniziative didattico-educative,
tra le quali, di particolare interesse, Ăš quella legata al percorso chiamato âIl Paesaggio nella
Cartografiaâ: una proposta didattica che ha trovato ispirazione da quanto enunciato dalla Convenzione
Europea del Paesaggio (in vigore dal 1 marzo 2004) e dalla ferma convinzione che si possa
incuriosire ed interessare unâampia varietĂ di visitatori, anche se diversamente abili, attraverso la
Cartografia, sfruttando la sua trasversalitĂ disciplinare e culturale.
âIl Paesaggio nella Cartografiaâ Ăš un progetto nato con lâintento di insegnare al pubblico ad osservare
i diversi ambienti naturali e antropici presenti sul nostro Pianeta, indirizzandoli ad una loro lettura
attraverso le carte ed aiutandoli a scoprire quanto una forte interazione tra uomo e ambiente
abbia contribuito alla loro evoluzione nel tempo.
Parole chiave: paesaggio, Cartografia, didattica, disabilitĂ âGemma 1786â, il Museo del Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dellâUniversitĂ di Modena e Reggio
Emilia, ha avviato un nuovo progetto di valorizzazione e di divulgazione del suo patrimonio
scientifico e storico-culturale.
Questa rinnovata attivitĂ museale ha portato alla realizzazione di specifiche iniziative didattico-educative,
tra le quali, di particolare interesse, Ăš quella legata al percorso chiamato âIl Paesaggio nella
Cartografiaâ: una proposta didattica che ha trovato ispirazione da quanto enunciato dalla Convenzione
Europea del Paesaggio (in vigore dal 1 marzo 2004) e dalla ferma convinzione che si possa
incuriosire ed interessare unâampia varietĂ di visitatori, anche se diversamente abili, attraverso la
Cartografia, sfruttando la sua trasversalitĂ disciplinare e culturale.
âIl Paesaggio nella Cartografiaâ Ăš un progetto nato con lâintento di insegnare al pubblico ad osservare
i diversi ambienti naturali e antropici presenti sul nostro Pianeta, indirizzandoli ad una loro lettura
attraverso le carte ed aiutandoli a scoprire quanto una forte interazione tra uomo e ambiente
abbia contribuito alla loro evoluzione nel tempo.
Parole chiave: paesaggio, Cartografia, didattica, disabilit
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