The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.
It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
This doctoral thesis analyzes the recent process of incorporating the idea of Sacred Natural Sites (SNS) in different…
There is a subtle mystery in each of the movements and sounds of this world. The initiate will…
This article sets out the Arab-Amazigh origins of the outstanding Valencian, Spain, horticultural landscape (8th-10th centuries), the largest…
This monographic issue of the magazine Perifèria. Cristianisme, Postmodernitat, Globalització, coordinated by Jordi Corominas and Joan Albert Vicens,…
The first Sage who recognized God had no books. Nature taught him and he helped nature.
Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi present their book “Vita e Natura. Una Visione Sistemica ”, the Italian…
This best practice guidelines published by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, is the result of a…
The short documentary entitled ‘El darrer ermità’ (The last hermit), tells, in a slow and poetic Catalan, the…
Once philosophy was born out of wonder for the world around us (Aristotle). And then also doubt (Descartes)….
Africa’s traditional cosmology is very diverse, but behind this diversity lies the core of shared beliefs which spread…