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Sign-bearing artifacts are immanent elements of sacred spaces in many cultures. Often, one encounters a phenomenon there that might be described as deliberate “invisibility,” the conscious “concealment” of artefacts and writing. The volume examines this interplay of presence and invisibility using the example of sign-bearing artefacts in sacral spaces in various religions in the Near East and Europe.

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The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective of the dynamics that govern the human–climate ecosystem is becoming one of the main focuses of interest in biological and earth system sciences. Multidisciplinary bio-geo-archaeo investigations into the underlying processes of human impact on the landscape are crucial to envisage possible future scenarios of biosphere responses to global warming and biodiversity losses. This Special Issue seeks to engage an interdisciplinary dialog on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, focusing on long-term environmental data as an essential tool for better-informed landscape management decisions to achieve an equilibrium between conservation and sustainable resource exploitation.

Baseball --- Babe Ruth --- American Catholicism --- deconversion --- sport --- hope --- bible belt --- religion --- rehabilitation --- affect theory --- sport --- religion --- spirituality --- phenomenology of religion --- race --- national football league --- religious expression --- prayer --- black church --- providentialism --- evangelicalism --- place --- sacred space --- religion and sport --- theology and sport --- sacrament --- Lance Armstrong --- Isaiah --- redemption --- contemporary sport culture --- exile --- parkour --- free-running --- religion --- pilgrimage --- poiesis --- ecology --- urban --- safeguarding --- elite youth sport --- English professional football --- qualitative research --- sport --- religion --- spirituality --- Christianity --- social justice --- hope --- spiritual emotions

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Landscapes have long been viewed as ‘multifunctional’, integrating ecological, economic, sociocultural, historical, and aesthetic dimensions. Landscape science and public awareness in Europe have been progressing in leaps and bounds. The challenges involved in landscape-related issues and fields, however, are multiple and refer to landscape stewardship and protection, as well as to the development of comprehensive theoretical and methodological approaches, in tandem with public sensitization and participatory governance and in coordination with appropriate top-down planning and policy instruments. Landscape-scale approaches are fundamental to the understanding of past and present cultural evolution, and are now considered to be an appropriate spatial framework for the analysis of sustainability. Methods and tools of landscape analysis and intervention have also gone a long way since their early development in Europe and the United States. Although significant progress has been made, there remain many issues which are understudied or not investigated at all—at least in a Mediterranean context. This Special Issue addresses the application of landscape theory and practice in the Eastern Mediterranean and mainly, but not exclusively, reports on the outcomes of an international conference held in Jordan, in December 2015, with the title “Landscapes of Eastern Mediterranean: Challenges, Opportunities, Prospects and Accomplishments”. The focus of this Special Issue, landscapes of the Eastern Mediterranean region, thus constitutes a timely area of research interest, not only because these landscapes have so far been understudied, but also as a rich site of strikingly variegated, long-standing multicultural human–environmental interactions. These interactions, resting on and taking shape through millennia of continuity in tradition, have been striving to adapt to technological advances, while currently juggling with manifold and multilayered socioeconomic and climate–environmental crises.

Cyprus --- landscape archaeology --- sacred space --- political power --- economy --- religion --- ideology --- ancient sanctuaries --- churches --- comparative study --- landforms --- Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) --- Land Description Unit (LDU) --- spatial distributions --- topography --- geographical information system --- historical maps --- landscape changes --- rural land --- classification --- GIS --- LCA --- Land Description Units --- mapping --- planning --- typology --- Landscape Risk Assessment Model --- Landscape Decision Support System --- East Med landscape --- landscape --- stakeholders’ analysis --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Greek-speaking --- Arabic-speaking --- Arabic landscape and garden art --- Byzantine landscape and garden art --- cultural sustainability --- political sustainability --- Twain-born Border Lord --- landscape character assessment --- multi-functional landscapes --- planning --- UK --- Cyprus --- participatory --- governance --- landscape --- public realm --- urban environment --- local authority --- Lebanon --- Mediterranean --- n/a