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SILVIA PIOVAN

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Position

Professoressa Associata

Structure

Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichita' - DiSSGeA

Address

VIA DEL SANTO, 26 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498274074

E-mail

silvia.piovan@unipd.it

SILVIA PIOVAN

BACKGROUND
• Researcher in Geography since 2010 (MGGR01 – Area Scientifico-Disciplinare 13 “Scienze Storiche, Filosofia e Pedagogia” Macroarea di Scienze Umane) within the Department of Historical Geographical and Antiquity Sciences (DiSSGeA), University of Padova.
• PhD in 2008 in “Man and Environment” at the University of Padova.
• Graduated cum laude in 2004 in Geological Sciences at the University of Padova.

CURRENT POSITION
• Aggregate Professor of “GIS: Mapping and Analysis” for the Master’s Degree Program in Local Development and Instructor of “Cartography and GIS” for the Bachelor’s Degree Program in History.
• Instructor of “History of Cartography and Use of Historical Maps in Geohistorical Reconstructions” for the Second Level Master Degree in GIScience and Unmanned System.
• Instructor of “GIS” for the Doctorate Program in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies.
• Visiting Affiliate Professor (2017-2019) and Visiting Associate Professor (2015-2017) at the University of South Carolina.
• Director of the GIS Laboratory of the DiSSGeA in Padova.
• Member of the Collegium in the Doctorate Program in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies.
• Member of the Steering Committee of the 2nd Level Master Degree in GIScience and Unmanned System.

RECENT RESEARCH
• Scientific Responsible for the Padova Unit of the PRIN Project “SYLVA. Rethink the sylvan: Towards the alliance between biology and artificiality, nature and society, wilderness and humanity” (2019-2022).
• She actively collaborated within projects funded by national and international institutes and foundations as “Assessing the Impacts of the October 2015 Meteorological Event on the Topography and Road Network of the McCrady Training Center” (South Carolina Army National Guard 2016-17), “Wetland Mitigation Needs Forecasting Model” (SCDOT 2015-2016), “Ecosystem Services in the low plain of the Adige and Bacchiglione rivers from Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age” (Progetto di Ateneo 2015-17), Project Visiting Scholar Ca.Ri.Pa.Ro. “Protection of a Cultural and Natural Resource: A geo-historical Approach to Wetlands Mitigation” at the Univ. of South Carolina (2015).
• She presents her research at international conferences (es.: AAG Annual Meetings 2016-2019, ICC 2013, 2019).
• She authored the Springer book “The Geohistorical Approah: Mathods and Applications” (2020) and she publishes on International journals (ex.: Cartographica, Geoarchaeology, GIScience and Remote Sensing, Cartography and GIS). She has also authored numerous book chapters on fluvial research of the Veneto region.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Geohistorical evolution and interactions between hydrography and human activities in alluvial plains
• The role of the environment (e.g. forests, wetlands, weather) in relation to the military events of the American Civil War
• Historical cartography and Geographical Information Sciences
• Geomorphology of the alluvial plains

Notices

Office hours

  • at Second Floor, Wollemborg Palace (Geography Section - DiSSGeA)
    Please, to request a meeting, send an email to: silvia.piovan@unipd.it

Teachings

Publications

The most 10 relevant pubblications:

Sang Kun, Fontana G.L., Piovan S.E. (2022). Assessing railway landscape by AHP process with GIS: a study of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway. Remote sensing, 14(3), 603.

Hodgson M.E., Piovan S.E. (2021). An Indoor Landscape for Instruction of 3-D Aerial Drone Imagery. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Sang, K., Piovan, S., & Fontana, G. L. (2021). A WebGIS for Visualizing Historical Activities Based on Photos: The Project of Yunnan–Vietnam Railway Web Map. Sustainability, 13(1), 419.

Piovan S.E. (2020). The Geohistorical Approach: Methods and Applications. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-42439-8

Piovan S.E., Filippini M., Hodgson M.E. (2020). Loss of Wetlands in the Southern Venetian Plain: a Geo-Historical Perspective. Bollettino dell’Associazione Italiana di Cartografia (168), 29-48. DOI: 10.13137/2282-572X/30963

Larcher V., Piovan S.E. (2018). Border Regions Maps as Nationalistic Propaganda Workshops in School Historical Atlases: the Case of South Tyrol. Rivista Geografica Italiana, 125(4), pp. 483-506.

Larcher V., Piovan S. (2018). The Use of Colors in Historical Atlases. Cartographica, 53(2), pp. 115-128.

Xu H., Hodgson M.E., Piovan S.E., Tufford D.L. (2018). The potential of using LiDAR and color-infrared aerial imagery for palustrine wetland typology and change. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 55, pp. 477-501. DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2017.1412145

Piovan S.E., Maugeri E., Hodgson M.E., Luconi S. (2017). I percorsi delle armate del Generale Sherman attraverso le aree umide del South Carolina. Bollettino dell’Associazione Italiana di Cartografia, 159, 93-107. DOI: 10.13137/2282-572X/21315

Piovan S.E., Hodgson M.E. (2016). How Many Carolina bays? An analysis of Carolina bays from USGS topographic maps at different scales. Cartography and Geographical Information Science, 44(4), 310-326. DOI:10.1080/15230406.2016.1162670

Research Area

• Geo-historical evolution and interactions between hydrography and human activities in alluvial plains
• The role of the environment (e.g. wetlands, weather,…) in relation to the military events of the American Civil War, and the development and decline of water powered mills and mill ponds in the south-east of the United States
• Wetlands, floods and ecosystem services in the Adige-Po plain
• Historical cartography and Geographical Information Sciences
• Geomorphology of alluvial plains

Thesis proposals

Used approaches:

- Geohistorical
- Cartographical
- Geomorphological
- GIS-based
- Historical GIS

Contents:

- Forests as "refuge" (e.g. for intellectual and recreational activities, crimes, in battles, for biodiversity and cultural diversity)
- Historical evolution of wetlands in the alluvial plains
- Cultural tourism and landmarks related to the hydrographical evolution
- Military geography and the relationships between the evolution of the battles and the environment (wetlands, rivers, forests, weather)
- Historical cartography and explorations
- Local Development in coal mines areas of the eastern USA

Geographical areas:

- Venetian plain
- South Carolina (USA)
- South-east of the USA