Publication: Activate the water heritage to build more sustainable communities
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2023
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AESOP
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Today we recognize the finite character of natural resources, and the need for use it in a sustainable way to ensure the survival of mankind. Water is one of these resources essential to life, thus, over time, man developed systems to carry and capture water, however, the modern infrastructures of water supply made these systems obsolete. This article states the need to reuse the ancient systems to capture and store water, moreover it reflects about the benefits of the preservation of this ancient knowledge as part of a development strategy based on the valorisation of local heritage and resources. It focuses on a set of small villages in the centre of Portugal, in a carsic territory marked by water scarcity, depopulation and low density.
Keywords:Water systems, heritage, vernacular architecture, circularity, sustainable development
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Book of proceedings: 35th AESOP Annual Congress Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, 11-15th July, 2023
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CC BY 4.0