Proceedings of the 18th IPSAPA/ISPALEM International Scientific Conference - The Usefulness of the Useless in the Landscapecultural Mosaic: Liveability, Typicality, Biodiversity

This year's IPSAPA/ISPALEM conference urged attendees, as usual, to critically reflect on certain fundamental concepts for the analysis of the landscape-cultural mosaic, by encouraging on the one hand, methodological analysis, and on the other, their application in the field. The fundamental concepts for this year were the true, the beautiful, the good and their counterpoints (false, ugly, bad) viewed in their relationship with the two ambiguous parameters of useful and useless. The last two conferences were decidedly oriented towards the '"useless", as they were titled Wonderland and Utopia, while in this edition the orientation was directed towards the equilibrium between the two worlds of the useful and the useless (first volume), with the operative corollaries of biodiversity and of typicality, in a frame of liveability (second volume).