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The “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato”. A UNESCO Case Study Between Persistence and Change

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The UNESCO World Heritage Site entitled the “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato” has been introduced by examining the current driving forces of change. Both internal and external, they affect its system, structure, and characteristics. In the same way, its six components and the two associated buffer zones have been described by providing indications related to the local tangible and intangible permanences that characterize this Italian hilly landscape. Despite some major factors of change detected by analysing the SWOT analysis among the ‘Threats’ and ‘Weaknesses’ listed, as well as by the literature review, both the application file and the management plan do not include specific resilience-oriented discourses related to its social component.

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The author thanks Paloma Carla Mendola, Diego Repetto, Sandra Balbo and Massimo Pozzaglio for the research support in this chapter.

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Aimar, F. (2024). The “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato”. A UNESCO Case Study Between Persistence and Change. In: The Resilience of Cultural Landscapes. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55861-0_4

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