Italian Historical Rural Landscapes

1. Front Matter

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2. Scientific Approaches and Research Findings

   1. Front Matter

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3. Italian historical rural landscapes: dynamics, data analysis and research findings

   1. Italian Historical Rural Landscapes: Dynamics, Data Analysis and Research Findings

      • Mauro Agnoletti

      Pages 3-87

   2. Assessing the Integrity of the Historical Landscapes

      • Mauro Agnoletti, Antonio Santoro, Lorenzo Gardin

      Pages 89-130

   3. The Role of Historical Rural Landscapes in Territorial Planning

      • Alberto Magnaghi

      Pages 131-139

   4. Rural Landscapes: The Historical Roots of Biodiversity

      • Roberta Cevasco, Diego Moreno

      Pages 141-152

   5. Landscape and Economy

      • Tiziano Tempesta

      Pages 153-164

4. The Landscapes

   1. Front Matter

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5. Assessing the integrity of the historical landscapes. Three case studies in some terraced areas

   1. Valle d’Aosta

      • Diego Moreno

      Pages 167-173

   2. Piedmont

      • Roberta Cevasco

      Pages 175-198

   3. Liguria

      • Diego Moreno

      Pages 199-219

   4. Lombardy

      • Lionella Scazzosi

      Pages 221-245

   5. Trentino Alto Adige

      • Mauro Agnoletti, Rita Biasi

      Pages 247-262

   6. Friuli Venezia Giulia

      • Claudio Lorenzini

      Pages 263-278

   7. Veneto

      • Tiziano Tempesta

      Pages 279-298

   8. Emilia Romagna

      • Franco Cazzola

      Pages 299-318

   9. Tuscany

      • Mauro Agnoletti

      Pages 319-341

   10. Marche

       • Piero Bevilacqua

       Pages 343-361

   11. Umbria

       • Piero Bevilacqua

       Pages 363-383

   12. Lazio

       • Piero Bevilacqua

       Pages 385-402

Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and nature. This research work presents more than a hundred case studies where the historical relationships between man and nature have generated, not deterioration, but cultural, environmental, social and economic values. The results show that is not only the economic face of globalization that is negatively affecting the landscape, but also inappropriate environmental policies. The CBD-UNESCO program on biocultural diversity, the FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and several projects of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, as well as European rural policies acknowledge the importance of cultural values associated to landscape. This research intends to support  these efforts.

• Agriculture
• Environmental management
• Forestry
• Landscape
• Landscape ecology
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• DEISTAF, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

  Mauro Agnoletti

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