Abstract
The European Landscape Convention states that the perception of the inhabitants must be taken into account within spatial policies and plans. However, rural policies are often based on statistical collections, indirect analysis and consultation of accredited associations; rarely do they succeed to deeply survey the perception of local people and the cultural and social values that the rural landscape expresses. Traditional rural landscapes enshrine great internal landscape diversity, contribute to regional landscape mosaics and public enjoyment and finally retain cultural, heritage, productive and economic potentials. However traditional rural landscape receives less attention from policies due to its progressive marginalization, fragmentation, abandonment, degradation, depopulation, obliteration of its cultural, landscaping and economic values. Finally it usually lacks of accredited and organized institutional representatives. Aim of the paper is to give landscape and rural development policies and plans concrete elements to better preserve and recover significant marginal rural landscapes. Such addresses are developed following a bottom-up approach, based on the combination of farm-owners consultation and expert-led landscape analysis, in a case-study of a traditional rural landscape in Piedmont (Northern Italy). Main findings are that marginal traditional rural landscapes preserve living traditional knowledge about wise land (scape) management practices, so population and farm-owners consultation is fundamental for shaping sound landscape/rural policies and plans. Moreover, rural and landscape policies need to strengthen their harmonization not only at the strategic level but also at the implementation one. Finally, fine-grained analysis is needed in shaping regional policies due to the higher fragmentation of marginal traditional rural landscapes which are more likely to go unnoticed by extensive-scale analysis.
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See the 2014 UNESCO-SCBD Joint Conference on Joint Programme on Biological and Cultural Diversity: Linking Biological and Cultural Diversity in Europe, held 8–11 April, Florence, Italy.
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See: http://www.alpter.net (accessed 21/02/2018).
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In particular: Prof. Claudia Cassatella and Prof. Alfredo Mela (Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning—DIST—Politecnico di Torino).
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See: https://www.facebook.com/osservatoriopaesaggioami (accessed 21/02/2018).
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Seardo, B.M. (2019). Preserving and Restoring Italian Traditional Rural Landscapes. Addresses from Social Perception to Spatial Planning, Policies and Research. In: Gottero, E. (eds) Agrourbanism. GeoJournal Library, vol 124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95576-6_12
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