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 selection of papers includes reflections on the pandemic from nature, i.e. natural and health sciences, which addresses…
This collection includes spiritual reflections, be they religious or not, regarding the pandemic. They addresses aspects that are…
This collection contains reflections about the pandemic from the philosophy and ethics. They address aspects such as the…
This monographic issue of the magazine Perifèria. Cristianisme, Postmodernitat, Globalització, coordinated by Jordi Corominas and Joan Albert Vicens,…
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…