By Tim Birkhead
The production of Dolly the sheep within the Nineties was once for plenty of humans the beginning of a brand new period: the age of genetically changed animals. even if, the belief used to be now not new for within the Nineteen Twenties an beginner scientist, Hans Duncker, made up our minds to genetically engineer a pink canary. notwithstanding his experiments failed, they lead the way for others to prevail whilst it was once regarded that the canary had to be either a fabricated from nature and nurture. This hugely unique narrative, of big modern relevance, finds how the obsession with turning the wild canary from eco-friendly to crimson heralded the interesting yet debatable advancements in genetic manipulation.
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9 11 Specialisation and Integration in Knowledge and Planning Approaches The recognition of the symbolic function of landscape is essentially founded on its holistic and integrated vision, fruit of the inter- and trans-disciplinary interaction of diversified cognitive and project approaches. The structural interpretation of the territory and other readings of the landscape reality referred to in various recent experiences of landscape planning, move from the integration of these approaches. But the process of integration is hindered not only by the separation of the administrative competences attributed to the different institutional bodies but also by the rigidity of the closures and the divisions between the different disciplinary domains, partly deriving from academic traditions.
3 and Fig. 2). We can say, indeed, that, up to now, category IUCN V continues to be the most representative compared to others, including about 12,000 protected (continued) 8 Concerning the local contexts analysis developed in 2008, data referring to the NUTS3 (Territorial Statistical Units) data, in the framework of the ESPON Programme. 1 Introduction: Reasoning on Parks and Landscapes 19 Fig. 2 Protected landscape in the European protected areas system (Source: EEA 2013, CED PPN 2008–2012) 20 G.
As the international debate has shown, it induces to make clear the distinction between the “protection areas” and the “conservation areas” (Borrini-Feyerabend et al. 2010, 2013; SCBD 2004, 2010). The latter can include not only part of the protected areas (PAs) corresponding to IUCN categories but also a large range of areas not corresponding to such categories, which may contribute to the active conservation of the whole concerned territories, within and outside the PAs, not always submitted to rigid regulation.