LAW REGIME AND CULTURAL HERITAGE AS DETERMINANTS OF OWNERSHIP: Demystifying the puzzling Canadian Ownership Concentration

Wie öffentlich soll Wissen für Wissenschaft und Unterricht sein? Anmerkungen zum Urheberrecht in derInformationsgesellschaft

Everyone says that the ownership and control of information is one of the most important forms of power in contemporary society ... . It is intellectual property, not the regulation of cyber-smut, that provides the key to the distribution of wealth, power and access in the information society. The intellectual property regime could make – or break – the educational, political, scientific and cu...

Timber harvesting as ongoing disturbance in a landscape of diverse ownership

Although the northeastern US includes extensive areas of aggrading forest, uncertainty regarding the intensity and pattern of forest harvesting hampers an understanding of important ecological processes and characteristics such as carbon and nitrogen storage, habitat quality, and forest dynamics, and impedes regional conservation and management planning. Due to the complex ownership pattern dom...

From a high mortality regime to a high morbidity regime: is culture everything in sickness?

SERIE RESEARCH ITlEmORnnDB QUANTITY AND QUALITY EVALUATION INDICATORS FOR OUR CULTURAL-ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

In this paper the problem of evaluating our cultural-architectural heritage is treated. The aim is to design a method for incorporating multiple (tangible and intangible) dimensions of cultural-architectural assets. In the first part a critical discussion of various cornerstones of evaluating such assets is given, whilst a plea is made for the use of a 'compound' evaluation method. Next, an ove...

IR Thermography Applied to the Cultural Heritage Conservation

Extended Abstract Thermal non-destructive testing is more and more applied even in the field of cultural heritage conservation. The main reason is the capability of inspecting large surfaces without any contact or damage. A large number of testing procedures and processing algorithms allows reaching reliable results both in laboratory or in situ. Well established or innovative techniques are ba...