BACKGROUND Cultural diversity often leads to misunderstandings, clashes, conflicts, ethnocentrism, discrimination, and stereotyping due to the frequent intersection of many variables, such as differences in traditions, behaviours, ethical and moral perspectives, conceptions of health and illness, and language barriers. The root of the issue is related to the way people conceptualise differences...

With climate change, many cultural landscapes will be lost or permanently altered. One approach to managing this is through international designation, UNESCO, and the focus that it provides...

Around the world, thousands of reservoir dams have flooded valleys and become concrete symbols Anthropocene. These landscapes, as well material or immaterial cultural heritages, were thus became invisible, even though they remain in memories local populations. Today, alternative technologies can enable inhabitants to reappropriate these lost heritages and, a way, make them visible again. 3D dig...

Creating a win-win relationship between biodiversity and human well-being is one of the major current challenges for environmental policy. One way to approach this challenge is to identify sites with both high biodiversity and high human interest in urban areas. Here, we propose a new systematic approach to identify such sites by using land prices and biodiversity indexes for butterflies and bi...

This paper presents an automatic procedure for combining digital images and laser scanner data in order to have a full representation of a scene. In particular, this procedure will serve photogrammetric close range applications such as 3D digital preservation and documentation of cultural heritages by generating highly virtual reality models. Our method is based on a bundle adjustment for the o...