Papers by ANASTASIA S STRATIGEA
Heritage, 2019
Small islands in the Mediterranean Sea, although endowed with exquisite land and maritime natural... more Small islands in the Mediterranean Sea, although endowed with exquisite land and maritime natural and cultural resources, are in most cases lagging behind areas, mainly due to insularity. Through their long history, many of them are strongly interwoven to events of European or even global significance, e.g., World War (WW) I and II. Such events have left in their “bodies” important remains, largely conditioning their socio-economic trajectory. Preservation and sustainable management of this Cultural Heritage (CH) is, in this work, perceived as a two-sided coin, serving endurance of European identity, memory, and CH for future generations on the one side; and leveraging future cultural tourism trails of these disadvantaged areas on the other. The goal of this article is to ‘unbury’ land and maritime, tangible and intangible, cultural remains and use them to unveil heritage-led development paths of small Mediterranean islands. This is demonstrated through a specific case study, a dist...
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Heritage, 2021
The impacts of mass tourism and COVID-19 crisis demonstrate the need for healthy, peaceful, and a... more The impacts of mass tourism and COVID-19 crisis demonstrate the need for healthy, peaceful, and authentic recreation options, giving prominence to emerging destinations, such as remote Mediterranean islands. These, although endowed with exquisite land and underwater cultural heritage (UCH), are confronted with insularity drawbacks. However, the exceptional land and especially UCH, and the alternative tourism forms these can sustain, e.g., diving tourism, are highly acknowledged. The focus of this paper is on the power of participation and participatory planning in pursuing UCH preservation and sustainable management as a means for heritage-led local development in remote insular regions. Towards this end, the linkages between participation and (U)CH management from a policy perspective—i.e., the global and European policy scenery—and a conceptual one—cultural heritage cycle vs. planning cycle—are firstly explored. These, coupled with the potential offered by ICT-enabled participatio...
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Global key drivers—e.g., climate change, COVID-19 outbreak—have initiated critical debates as to ... more Global key drivers—e.g., climate change, COVID-19 outbreak—have initiated critical debates as to the sustainable future pathways of many regions around the globe. Among these fall islands, as distinct types of regions that are marked by insularity drawbacks and a mono-sectoral economic profile, grounded in mass tourism. Having as a case study area all Greek islands, this work addresses: sustainability concerns that are due to the mass tourism repercussions in these heritage-endowed territories; and efforts undertaken by the Greek insular municipalities to deploy, in a collaborative manner, strategic cultural tourism plans in support of the transition from a resource-intensive mass tourism pattern to natural and cultural heritage-led future developmental trails. Towards this end, a two-stream methodological approach is used that relies on: quantitative, spatially-defined data elaboration/interpretation and visualization, highlighting the dynamics of tourism development in island terr...
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2023
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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020, 2020
Martial incidents during wars (World War I and II), but also shipping fatalities through centurie... more Martial incidents during wars (World War I and II), but also shipping fatalities through centuries along the densely populated commercial routes of the Mediterranean Sea have resulted in significant submerged remnants, falling into the Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) corps. A large part of this heritage is located in the neighborhood of insular territories. Preservation and sustainable exploitation of this UCH in the Mediterranean presents an important opportunity for both keeping alive the European identity for future generations, and tracking alternative, heritage-led future development trails for remote peripheral and lagging-behind island communities. The paper explores the context of UCH in the Mediterranean and elaborates on the value attached to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for reaping this opportunity by means of surveying, geolocating, preserving, sustainably exploiting and marketing this heritage. Based on this exploration, but also on the authors’ experience from a specific (U)CH-related cultural planning endeavor, conducted in Leros Island Greece, ICT and non-ICT related barriers for planning heritage-led future trails of insular regions are delineated.
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Tourism trends towards authentic, experience-based products have brought to the forefront lesser-... more Tourism trends towards authentic, experience-based products have brought to the forefront lesser-known destinations, e.g., small and medium-sized Mediterranean islands. These can gain competitiveness on the ground of their distinguished land and Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH), thus opening up new directions for their future sustainable development. Sustainable exploitation of UCH, though, calls for dedicated planning endeavors and respective UCH data acquisition/management. However, while the planning discipline can offer effective approaches and tools for properly handling cultural heritage, a deficit of sufficient, pertinent and well-documented UCH data is noticed, e.g., data on shipwrecks as part of UCH. The latter is the focus of this work, aiming, as a first step, to illuminate aspects of a shipwreck database, relevant to planners’ requests. Towards this end, global-wide distributed knowledge is explored in an effort to identify potentialities and limitations, content commo...
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Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management
The focus of this work is on the sustainable and resilient exploitation of natural and cultural r... more The focus of this work is on the sustainable and resilient exploitation of natural and cultural resources of remote and fragmented insular territories for rendering these endowed but lagging-behind entities, attractive, experience-based cultural tourism destinations. For reaching this goal, a participatory, integrated, and strategic planning framework is developed, embedding a range of planning tools, e.g., scenario planning, spatial data management, and e-participation technologies for community engagement (Web-GIS, social networks). By use of this framework, an effort to integrate tangible and intangible elements of natural and cultural as well as land or underwater resources into coherent and challenging value-based cultural tourism narratives and products is undertaken, for shifting insularity disadvantage of insular spatial entities to competitive advantage in the tourism geography. The implementation of this framework is exemplified through empirical work in a specific case study, Leros Island—Greece, namely, a distinguishable insular territory and World War II battlefield scenery, a torturing place in its past but also in present as a refugees’ hotspot. This has revealed the eagerness of Leros community to cope with insularity bottlenecks and pave more promising future development trails that keep track with local values, expectations, and visions.
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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020
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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021, 2021
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2023
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Journal of Urban Technology, Oct 29, 2018
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Springer eBooks, 2022
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Progress in IS, 2017
Coping with contemporary urban challenges and smart city developments actually implies a consciou... more Coping with contemporary urban challenges and smart city developments actually implies a conscious effort to engage a range of actors of local ecosystems and transform ways of implementing things in a significant, fundamental and structural rather than incremental manner, which results in more qualitative outcomes and cooperative, highly inclusive, decision-making processes that affect current and future quality of local communities’ living perspectives. Citizens and stakeholders’ participation in such an effort is growing in importance, in alignment with the currently prevailing shift from a top-down to a bottom-up planning paradigm. Along these lines, the focus of this paper is on smartening up local communities, considered as the heart of smart cities’ development. More specifically, the paper targets citizens and stakeholders’ empowerment and engagement in a specific cultural planning exercise in a less privileged suburb of Athens metropolitan area, the Municipality of Korydallos. This is accomplished by the development of an innovative stepwise participatory planning framework, effectively combining classical and Web-based participatory tools for establishing face-to-face and online interaction at the different steps of the participatory process; and broadening substantial participation of various citizens and stakeholders’ groups in this exercise.
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International journal of e-planning research, Jul 1, 2019
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ΘEΩΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΜEΘΟΔΟΙ ΣΥΜΜEΤΟΧΙΚΟΥ ΣΧEΔΙΑΣΜΟΥ [EΘΝΙΚΟ ΜEΤΣΟΒΙΟ ΠΟΛΥΤEΧΝEΙΟ, ΣΧΟΛΗ ΑΓΡΟΝΟΜΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΠΟ... more ΘEΩΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΜEΘΟΔΟΙ ΣΥΜΜEΤΟΧΙΚΟΥ ΣΧEΔΙΑΣΜΟΥ [EΘΝΙΚΟ ΜEΤΣΟΒΙΟ ΠΟΛΥΤEΧΝEΙΟ, ΣΧΟΛΗ ΑΓΡΟΝΟΜΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΩΝ ΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΩΝ, ΤΜΗΜΑ ΑΓΡΟΝΟΜΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΩΝ ΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΩΝ]
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European Journal of Geography, Apr 12, 2022
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Progress in IS, Sep 13, 2018
Radical developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have severely affected v... more Radical developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have severely affected various sectors, with culture and tourism being among the direct recipients of this technological revolution. Supported by ICT, the efficient and innovative management of cultural resources as well as their interlinkages with the tourist sector—the culture/tourism complex—are nowadays perceived as a vital policy choice in pursuing sustainable local development; and lie at the heart of strategic cultural tourism planning and decision-making processes in numerous communities around the globe. Along these lines, the focus of the present paper is on the development and implementation of a participatory spatial planning framework, aiming at supporting policy making with regard to resilient cultural tourism development of a particular, lagging behind, culturally-wealthy rural community of Crete (former Province of Kissamos). Based on this framework, strategic guidelines that are grounded on the sustainable and culturally-resilient exploitation of these resources, are set; and are framed by the general policy agenda at the EU and the Greek state level as well as the policy directions set up by the Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization (RIS3) at the regional level (Region of Crete).
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Η επισκόπηση σχετικών μελετών βιώσιμης αξιοποίησης των πόρων του θαλάσσιου και παράκτιου περιβάλλοντος στον Ευρωπαϊκό χώρο φέρνει στην επιφάνεια ένα σημαντικό ζήτημα που αφορά στη διαχείριση της Ενάλιας Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς (ΕΠΚ) σε περιοχές όπου εντοπίζονται σημαντικοί υλικοί αλλά και άυλοι πολιτιστικοί πόροι, οι οποίοι έως σήμερα δεν ήταν απόλυτα προσβάσιμοι ή γνωστοί. Δεδομένων των νέων τεχνολογικών δυνατοτήτων για τον εντοπισμό και την καταγραφή των εν λόγω πολιτιστικών πόρων, αλλά και την ασφαλέστερη επισκεψιμότητά τους, τίθεται το ζήτημα της προστασίας και αξιοποίησής τους μέσα από τον Ολοκληρωμένο Χερσαίο και Θαλάσσιο Χωροταξικό Σχεδιασμό των περιοχών όπου αυτοί εντάσσονται.
Η παρούσα εργασία επικεντρώνεται στο ζήτημα της διαχείρισης των ναυαγίων ως στοιχείων της ΕΠΚ. Θέτει το πλαίσιο διαχείρισης των εν λόγω πολιτιστικών πόρων από νομική σκοπιά, εμβαθύνοντας στο ισχύον νομοθετικό πλαίσιο στη διεθνή και εθνική πραγματικότητα. Από τη σκοπιά της πολιτικής, διερευνά τις κύριες συνιστώσες για τη διαχείριση του θαλάσσιου χώρου και συγκεκριμένα την Ολοκληρωμένη Θαλάσσια Πολιτική, τον Θαλάσσιο Χωροταξικό Σχεδιασμό και τη Γαλάζια Ανάπτυξη. Στο σκηνικό που αυτές συνθέτουν, διερευνάται το ζήτημα της προστασίας και αξιοποίησης της εν λόγω πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς για αναπτυξιακούς σκοπούς, με έμφαση στην προώθηση του ενάλιου πολιτιστικού και καταδυτικού τουρισμού. Στη Μεσόγειο γενικότερα αλλά και στη χώρα μας ειδικότερα, μέσα από την πλούσια ιστορική της διαδρομή, καταγράφεται ένας σημαντικός αριθμός ναυαγίων σε πλήθος νησιωτικών περιοχών, με ιδιαίτερη αξία για την εθνική αλλά και την Ευρωπαϊκή πολιτιστική ταυτότητα. Το στοιχείο αυτό μπορεί να αποτελέσει αναπτυξιακό μοχλό σε ένα πλήθος περιοχών της χώρας, κυρίως νησιωτικών, λαμβάνοντας υπόψιν την εμπειρία από ανάλογα εγχειρήματα από τη διεθνή πραγματικότητα.