This article presents basic concepts and critical perspectives on ecosystem alterations, focusing on how human activities have transformed biotic and abiotic system components. It synthesizes ecological theory with reflections on perception and communication, situating scientific evidence within broader debates about environmental change and media representation. Key elements include definitions of ecosystems, structural properties, scales of alteration, and the role of human impacts in shaping contemporary dynamics.
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The Department of Education, Culture and Sport, through the Division of Culture and University Studies, presented officially on August, 11th the Swiss Italian Literary Guide project (http://guidaletteraria.ti.ch) at the Spazio Magnolia (RSI) in Locarno.
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Cultural Observatories emerged in the late 1980s, gaining prominence over the last two decades. Initially inspired by Grenoble's Observatoire des politiques culturelles (1989) and Strasbourg's Observatoire européen de l'audiovisuel (1992), these observatories now number more than 100 across four continents, with a significant concentration in Europe. They vary in scope and focus, reflecting the diversity of cultural landscapes.
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At a quick and superficial reading, statistics and culture may seem like two separate realities that only interact under close supervision. To simplify, the cultured individual tends to stigmatize the false certainties hidden behind numbers, while the statistician perhaps looks with barely concealed annoyance at that galaxy of activities that escape easily definable metrics.
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A Laboratory of Minorities - The territory of Ticino represents a form of cultural and linguistic minority within the Swiss Confederation: as the only officially monolingual Italian-speaking canton, it embodies a condition of being at the margins of the centre, where the dominant culture is often constructed through dialogue—or tension—with the German- and French-speaking regions.
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The publication “Cultural Observatories Worldwide: A Map for Reading Culture” (Thematic Focus no. 2 - 2026) presents an international survey of cultural observatories, with the aim of providing an overview of these institutions and their main characteristics.
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