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| Categories | Environment |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Final issue | 2013 (print) |
| Company | Regione Piemonte |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Turin |
| Language | Italian |
| Website | Piemonte Parchi |
| ISSN | 1124-044X |
Piemonte Parchi ('Piedmont Parks') is an Italian magazine devoted to nature parks and life sciences. It is published since 1983 [1] in Turin (Italy) by the Piedmont Regional Government.
Piemonte Parchi was the first magazine published by an Italian public administration devoted to nature conservation. [2] Its first issue was published in November 1983 and soon the journal won a widespread praise. [3] The magazine consisted in a quarterly supplement of Notizie, the official newspaper of the Regione Piemonte; in 1985 the magazine redoubled its pages (which from that year on were all printed in colours) and became bimonthly, [4] and then monthly.
During the early 1990s, to support its policy on nature conservation, the Regional Department for nature parks (Assessorato regionale ai parchi) printed each month around 50,000 copies of the magazine, [4] which were sent free of charge to schools, local administrations, associations and private citizens, to inform them about the situation of the already existing nature parks in the region and the projects of new establishments. Since 1993, aiming to rationalise expenditure of the regional administration, the magazine started to be provided on the basis of paid subscriptions. Its circulation in 1997 decreased to 35,000 copies per issue. [5] Besides its ordinary issues from 1999 on Piemonte Parchi publishes every year two tematic issues, devoted to specific topics as, for instance, Il ritorno del lupo (The return of wolves ), Gli ecomusei ( Ecomuseums ), La speleologia in Piemonte ( Speleology in Piedmont), I parchi in Europa (Nature parks in Europe) and so on. From 2001 Piemonte Parchi is on the Internet, registered as Piemonte Parchi Web, where it is flanked by an online news bulletin with the events taking place in the Piedmontese parks, and by a weekly newsletter.
In 2004 Piemonte Parchi launched Piemonte Parchi Web Junior, a web project addressed to schools, [6] which ended in 2011. In the months preceding Turin 2006 Winter Olympics the journal launched an intensive information campaign on the event. With the 221st issue of December 2012, following a time of crisis [7] when Piemonte Parchi risked a complete closure due to Regione Piemonte budgetary cuts, [8] after almost 30 years of activity the magazine sharply reduced its paper format issues per year. From then on the magazine mainly goes on as a free of charge online newspaper. Contents and sections are roughly the same of the historic paper journal, and also the newsletter is still operating. [9]
Major aim of Piemonte Parchi is to provide news about the nature reserves features and activities in Piedmont, Italy and abroad. It also deals with environmental and life science issues such as geology, [10] climatology, [11] ornithology, [12] zoology [13] and botanics. [14]
Its articles also cover territorial issues as local history and traditional products. [15] Among the contributors of Piemonte Parchi there are prominent personalities of the Italian environmentalism as, for instance, Mario Rigoni Stern, Reinhold Messner, Antonio Cederna, Laura Conti and Piero Angela. [4]
Since 1991 Piemonte Parchi maintains a public library named "Biblioteca delle aree protette" ("Conservation areas library"), which was confirmed in 2009 by a legge regionale [16] and offers consultation and loans of works related to Conservation biology. [17]
The languages of Italy include Italian, which serves as the country's national language, in its standard and regional forms, as well as numerous local and regional languages, most of which, like Italian, belong to the broader Romance group. The majority of languages often labeled as regional are distributed in a continuum across the regions' administrative boundaries, with speakers from one locale within a single region being typically aware of the features distinguishing their own variety from one of the other places nearby.
The twenty Italian regions each have their own arms, as well as their own gonfalone; more recently they have taken into use normal flags as well. Many regional flags were adopted on 4 November 1995 for National Unity and Armed Forces Day of Italy.
Flaminio Baudi di Selve was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera but also Heteroptera.
Lago di Ceresole is an artificial lake in the Province of Turin, Piedmont, northern Italy. The lake was created in 1925-1931 when A.E.M., Turin's electricity authority, built a dam with a hydroelectric plant. The site is located in what is now the comune of Ceresole Reale.
Bric delle Camere is a mountain in northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. It is located in the provinces of Genoa and Alessandria. It lies at an altitude of 1016 metres.
The Strona di Postua is a 14.1 kilometres (8.8 mi) long torrent in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy.
The Chiusella is a 41-kilometre (25 mi) long river in the Piedmont region of Italy.
The Borbore is a river of Piedmont, Italy. It is a left-side tributary of the Tanaro.
The Triversa is a river of Piedmont, Italy. It is a left-side tributary of the Borbore.
Bergeggi is an island which lies in the Ligurian Sea off the coast near the village of Bergeggi in the Province of Savona, Liguria, Italy.
The Alpe Veglia and Alpe Devero Natural Park was established in 1995 and is in the Ossola valley, in the Province of Verbania, Italy.
The Antola Natural Regional Park is a natural park in Metropolitan City of Genoa. It gets the name from the highest mountain of the area, Monte Antola.
The Capanne di Marcarolo Natural Regional Park is a natural park in the province of Alessandria. It gets the name from a small village in the protected area, Capanne di Marcarolo.
The Stura di Ovada is a 32.9-kilometre (20.4 mi) stream of Liguria and Piedmont (Italy); it is the main tributary of the Orba.
Rocca Barbena is a 1,142-metre (3,747 ft) high mountain in the Ligurian Prealps in Italy.
The Monte Antoroto is a mountain of the Ligurian Alps located in Piedmont.
The Natural Park of Marguareis(in Italian Parco Naturale del Marguareis) is a regional natural park of the Ligurian Alps located in the Province of Cuneo.
The Punta Mirauda is a mountain of the Ligurian Alps located in Piedmont.
The Pietra Alta is a glacial erratic in the comune of Caselette, relevant for its size and its isolated location.
The hydrography of the Biella region, that is, the distribution of surface water in the province of Biella, Italy, falls almost entirely in the two basins of the Cervo and Sessera rivers, both tributaries of the Sesia. Some areas of the southwestern Biella region, on the other hand, are tributaries of the Dora Baltea; the largest natural body of water in the province, Lake Viverone, is also located in this area. In addition to the natural bodies of water, there are several irrigation canals in the plains built mainly to support rice cultivation and some reservoirs built in the foothills. In addition to irrigation, surface water is also used in the Biella area to serve the region's numerous industries and for potable water use, because the area is densely inhabited and groundwater capture is insufficient. Hydroelectric use, on the other hand, is very limited and is substantially confined to the Sessera Valley. The streams of the Biella region can be subject to ruinous floods as well, which have caused numerous damage to property and people over time.
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