Dive in Blue Growth – Protection and Promotion of Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408). This special issue belongs to the section "Underwater Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 26900
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 3D recording; underwater technologies; virtual reality; augmented reality
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Interests: archaeology; underwater restoration; policies
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Interests: protection and promotion of cultural heritage; history; archaeology
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Interests: policies and strategies; management models for AUCHS
Interests: protection and promotion of cultural heritage; history; archaeology
Interests: cultural heritage; characterization and diagnostics of stone building materials and their decay processes; experimentation of innovative protective products for materials; archaeometry; underwater archaeology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This SI is dedicated to the theme of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) and all the related research topics, which are generally linked with archaeology, history, marine sciences, remote sensing, digital technologies, robotics and sustainable tourism. Since 2012, the European Blue Growth Strategy, as well as the related policies, strategies and resources brought into play for its implementation, supports the sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors. So, on the one hand, the underwater cultural and natural heritage should create benefits; on the other hand, such benefits should preserve and not create any damage to the marine ecosystem, also including UCH lying there.
This Special Issue is open to all potential authors and encourages the submission of contributions presented at the 2nd International Conference Dive in Blue Growth on the Promotion of Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites, to be held virtually on 12th–14th May 2021. Dive in Blue Growth is organised in the framework of MeDryDive (https://medrydive.eu/), an EU project co-financed under the COSME Programme that is developing various digital content to promote the sustainable tourism in the Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites of the Mediterranean Sea.
This Special Issue intends to collect original and high-quality research devoted to the knowledge of UCH sites, by promoting innovative researches and practices and improving the development of emerging solutions on all the related subjects.
Contributions are welcome to provide the research community with a multidisciplinary forum in the themes related to underwater studies, involving the large community of experts from around the globe working in the specific field and also drawing attention to the operation of Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites (AUCHS) and their promotion as a means for their sustainable protection. The Special Issue also encourages studies related to innovative solutions and best practices developed and adopted by local, regional, national or transnational actors on their respective regulatory frameworks and concerning the protection of UCH, including the ratification of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
Contributions are invited on the following topics:
- Technologies and approaches for the in-situ promotion of Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites (AUCHS);
- Dry dive technologies: dematerializing Underwater Cultural Heritage to make them accessible to everybody;
- Best Practices and Strategies for the promotion and protection of AUCHS;
- The response of the public to the opening of the AUCHS;
- New technologies, tools, and advanced materials to protect underwater cultural sites;
- Characterization and diagnostics of underwater sites and materials;
- Blue growth and sustainable underwater tourism;
- Surveying solutions for UCH;
- Evaluation and Management of UCH.
Prof. Dr. Fabio Bruno
Dr. Barbara Davidde
Dr. Pari Kalamara
Dr. Angelos Manglis
Dr. Dimitris Kourkoumelis
Dr. Michela Ricca
Guest Editors
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