Special Issue: Conflicts and landscapes: towards a new Anthropocene?

Guest Editors

Prof. Giovanni Messina
University of Messina, Italy
Email: giovanni.messina@unime.it


Prof. Giuseppe Terranova
University of Tuscia, The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Integration of Migrants in Europe (IntoME), Italy
Email: giuseppe.terranova@unitus.it

Manuscript Topics

The redetermination of the global geopolitical chessboard coincides with a period in which crises, which we will refer to here as conflicts, cut across territories and communities in a multi-scalar sense. The world is undergoing an epochal transition whose boundaries are being defined.
Remaining in the background, awaiting an expected new wave of contagion, is the pandemic issue, strongly linked to the rhetoric of war and addressed through strong top-down and crisis policies. However, the conflict scenarios of greatest global concern are interconnected: the climate issue, the energy issue, the food issue, which will cause growing humanitarian and refugee emergencies.
Decisive challenges of the ongoing spatial transition, these scenarios constitute, politically, economically and culturally, the main contemporary conflicts in terms of the number of communities and territories involved and their complexity.
This Special Issue of AIMS Geosciences entitled “Conflicts and landscapes: towards a new Anthropocene?”, which is promoted by geographers, intends to investigate, from a transcalar perspective, how conflicts impact the landscape. From our perspective, landscape, rooted in morphological and environmental aspects, is the changing condition that connects communities and territories. In this sense it takes on cultural, economic, productive and geo-political values. The aim of this special issue is therefore to stimulate a theoretical reflection on the connections between conflict and landscape, but also to host analyses of case studies consistent with the identified theme. The ultimate goal is to try to define the evolution human-environment relationship and the boundaries of the new world.


Suggested topics may include, but are not limited, to the following:


• Pandemic landscapes: cities, territories, flows.
• Human-environment relationship
• The transformation of landscapes and the climate crisis
• Landscapes, Connectography and digital power
• Landscapes and food security
• Landscapes and energy supply
• Geopolitics of refugee crisis
• Geographies of cultural contact
• War landscapes


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All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed before their acceptance for publication. The deadline for manuscript submission is 31 July 2023

Published Papers(10)

Editorial
Starting from the landscape to read conflicts
Giovanni Messina Giuseppe Terranova
2024, Volume 10, Issue 1: 43-46. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2024003
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Research article
Demography, geopolitics and great power: A lesson from the past
Giuseppe Terranova
2023, Volume 9, Issue 4: 798-809. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023043
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Research article
Is the projected landscape also perceived? A proposed research plan on Etna Park's conflicting destination image
Sonia Malvica Enrico Nicosia Carmelo Maria Porto
2023, Volume 9, Issue 4: 783-797. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023042
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Research article
Naples and tourism: conflicts of a dream realised? Analysis of a fast-changing urban landscape
Stefano De Falco Alberto Corbino
2023, Volume 9, Issue 4: 754-768. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023040
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Research article
Sociopolitical conflicts on the establishment of protected natural areas: The case of Portofino National Park (Genoa, North-West Italy)
Lorenzo Brocada
2023, Volume 9, Issue 4: 713-733. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023038
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Research article
Preserving cultural landscapes in the face of globalization. The musealization of Sicilian heritage
Emanuela Caravello
2023, Volume 9, Issue 4: 697-712. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023037
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Research article
Post-pandemic scenarios. The role of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) in reducing the gap between the Italian Central-Northern regions and Southern ones
Stefania Palmentieri
2023, Volume 9, Issue 3: 555-577. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023030
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Research article
Cities and "Postcovidcene", an open challenge
Giovanni Messina Enrico Nicosia
2023, Volume 9, Issue 3: 455-465. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023025
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Research article
Uncovering the local foodscapes. Exploring the Etna volcano case study, Italy
Gianni Petino Donatella Privitera
2023, Volume 9, Issue 2: 392-408. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023021
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Research article
The role of the Italic community as a new agent of glocal development in the post-pandemic era
Giuseppe Terranova
2023, Volume 9, Issue 2: 219-227. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2023012
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