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Towards a sustainable rural mountain landscape. Exploring the (hi)stories of Val Borbera (Northern Apennines, Italy).
No full textIs shrinking really a bad thing? A socio-demographic photograph of inner areas.
No full textInner areas in Italy mostly correspond with mountainous rural landscapes, representing a (hi)story of a
man-maintained agro-silvo-pastoral systems, with a high balance between human management, restrictive
environmental conditions and biological diversity. Landscapes that underwent a destabilization because of
a large land abandonment and depopulation since the second half of the 20th century and the conversion of
productive rural to remote low-fertility areas.
Those ‘shrinking rural regions’ (ESPON, 2020) often resulted in depression and marginalisation on social,
economic, cultural, political level. Simultaneously they are still characterised by resources and good
practices, which are not valorized within the modernization process, but rather important within a (neo-)
indigenous rural development. A trajectory that suits perfectly within the vision of the ESPON Policy Brief,
underlining shrinkage not as a burden, but as a potential positive opportunity, focusing on growth- and
adaptation-oriented policies.
This contribution wants to grasp the socio-demographic photography of an inner area, with the aim to
improve the understanding of the possible trends of depopulation or return, and to tackle and
communicate the actual needs and requests of the current population towards local policy organs. The
research is part of the project TeRA SoRA - ‘Resources and good practices in inner areas: a model of
mapping the potential and issues for a sustainable valorization of the territorial heritage’, financed by the
private institution Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
The data collection was executed through a remote analysis of census data, within a GIS environment. The
outcome was a series of basemaps that will be discussed during a round table discussion with local
stakeholders and will be the starting point for a series of interactive mapping meetings.
The case study is composed by 30 municipalities of which 17 are considered ‘inner areas’ by the National
Strategy for Inner Areas (Strategia Nazionale delle Aree Interne), a direct action to support sustainable
territorial competitiveness, in order to counter the demographic decline that characterizes the Italian
internal areas. The aim of the Strategy is to create new income opportunities and to ensure that the
inhabitants have access to essential services (local public transport, education and social and health
services) and to improve the maintenance of the territory itself
Understanding the Effects of Flood Risk Perception on Individual and Collective Flood Behavior: a Mapping Exercise in Val Bisagno (Genoa)
No full textLa percezione del rischio è sempre più oggetto di ricerca e inizia ad essere integrata nei piani di valutazione del rischio. Il
modo in cui le persone percepiscono il rischio in determinati luoghi o non, è un indicatore molto importante della consapevolezza del rischio, sia individualmente come collettivamente. Questa ricerca vuole cogliere gli effetti della percezione del
rischio di alluvione in alcune aree su il loro comportamento individuale e collettiva in caso di alluvione. La ricerca è eseguita in Vall Bisagno, e più specificamente nella parte urbanizzata della città di Genova. Attraverso un sondaggio online
e un focus group, è stato raccolto un doppio dataset ed analizzato sotto forma di visualizzazioni cartografiche. L’obiettivo della ricerca è quello di ottenere una migliore comprensione della relazione tra comportamento e localizzazione. E,
inoltre, per capire quali sono i problemi di consapevolezza del rischio, informazione e comunicazione nella Val Bisagno.Risk perception is more and more a subject for research, and starts being integrated in risk assessment plans. The way
people sense the risk in certain places or not, is a very important indicator of the awareness of the risk, both individually
as collectively. This research wants to grasp the effects of flood risk perception in certain areas on their individual and
collective flood behavior. The research is done in the Bisagno valley, and more specifically in the urbanized part of the city
of Genoa. Through an online survey and a focus group, a double dataset was collected and elaborated, which resulted in
cartographic visualizations of the data analysis. The aim of the research is to get a better understanding of the relation
between behavior and location. And, moreover, to understand what the issues are in the Bisagno valley, considering risk
awareness, information and communicatio
Boliviaanse gletsjers: symbool voor klimaatonrechtvaardigheid
No full textDe vervuiler betaalt? Het is een belangrijk vraagstuk
dat bij de komende Klimaattop in Kopenhagen hoe dan
ook op de onderhandelingstafel ligt. In Bolivia wordt
steeds duidelijker hoe sterk de invloed is van het veranderende klimaat op de bewoners
Itinerari partecipativi a supporto di processi di sviluppo locale: un'applicazione in aree rurali montane del basso alessandrino
No full textTrasformazioni spaziali e pratiche di gestione locale: fonti cartografiche e orali in alta Val Borbera.
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Geo-Pratiche per la cura dei Territori. Strumenti di mitigazione, prevenzione e gestione per comunità resilienti.
No full textApicultural Spaces as Biocultural Places: A Comparative Temporal and Spatial Examination of Beekeeping Practices and Their Contextual Landscapes in the Northwest Apennines
No full textThe historical rural landscapes of the Val Borbera (Piedmont) and the Val di Vara (Liguria) were characterized by intensive agro-silvo-pastoral systems. This paper explores the comparative bio-cultural history of apiculture, beekeeping and the production of honey and wax in these areas of the northwest Italian Apennines during the past 200 years. In 1798–99, an enquiry (inchiesta) into the quality, production and territorial needs of the Republic of Liguria included a question concerning the nature, extent and practices associated with apiculture and beekeeping, but also on the landscapes where this rural practice were performed. Through contextualizing these written and oral sources on a landscape scale alongside historical cartography and later aerial photography, this paper discusses the temporal and spatial evolution of apiculture, beekeeping and the production of these practices from the late eighteenth century to the modern day. In doing so, apiculture and beekeeping are shown to be important components within and indicative of the bio-cultural diversity and heritage in these parts of the northwest Italian Apennines and indeed elsewhere across Europe
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