All of the Italian villages which have historically based their own economy on traditional production systems (such as craftsmanship, agriculture, fostering and pastoralism) have been disadvantaged on the socio-economic field, during the last century, by the changes connected to globalization (Ciuffetti & Vaquero, 2018; Natali, 2016). Many other areas of the Country, indeed, have been able to provide many new more goods and services. At the beginning, the weaker areas where located on the mountainous part of the Country, but the weakness perimeter has bounded all the rural areas, after WWII. The consequences have been abandonment, depopulation and negligence through the local environment – with risks linked to hydrogeological instability (Bertolini, 2012). The Italian Government attention towards the socio-economic disadvantage of these areas is recent and materialized in the attempt to localize them and to realize a strategy for their economic and social relaunch. This concentration result is the National Strategy for Inner Areas (Barca, 2015). This plan is interesting because of its focusing on the local knowledge and social networks as keys to give these places a new life, sharing this idea with important authors as Bevilacqua (2011).The Umbria Region, sprinkled by hundreds of medieval hilltowns, is a symbol-area of the mentioned economical processes. Many of its hamlets experienced the total desertification. This research focuses on one of them: Postignano. Its distinctive feature is the totally private citizens-leading of its economical relaunch. They bought them in order to empower and update its economy. Using different research methods, we tried to understand the development models that the sponsors applied, finding affinities and differences with the State policies. We also tried to analyse the thinking paradigms laying under this landscape recovery. Is the landscape recovery something virtuous itself or, on the contrary, we can establish any criteria through which measure their restoration capability (Teti, 2014)
Which model of landscape realunch?The Umbrian case of Postignano.
Paola de Salvo
;Marco Pizzi
2020
Abstract
All of the Italian villages which have historically based their own economy on traditional production systems (such as craftsmanship, agriculture, fostering and pastoralism) have been disadvantaged on the socio-economic field, during the last century, by the changes connected to globalization (Ciuffetti & Vaquero, 2018; Natali, 2016). Many other areas of the Country, indeed, have been able to provide many new more goods and services. At the beginning, the weaker areas where located on the mountainous part of the Country, but the weakness perimeter has bounded all the rural areas, after WWII. The consequences have been abandonment, depopulation and negligence through the local environment – with risks linked to hydrogeological instability (Bertolini, 2012). The Italian Government attention towards the socio-economic disadvantage of these areas is recent and materialized in the attempt to localize them and to realize a strategy for their economic and social relaunch. This concentration result is the National Strategy for Inner Areas (Barca, 2015). This plan is interesting because of its focusing on the local knowledge and social networks as keys to give these places a new life, sharing this idea with important authors as Bevilacqua (2011).The Umbria Region, sprinkled by hundreds of medieval hilltowns, is a symbol-area of the mentioned economical processes. Many of its hamlets experienced the total desertification. This research focuses on one of them: Postignano. Its distinctive feature is the totally private citizens-leading of its economical relaunch. They bought them in order to empower and update its economy. Using different research methods, we tried to understand the development models that the sponsors applied, finding affinities and differences with the State policies. We also tried to analyse the thinking paradigms laying under this landscape recovery. Is the landscape recovery something virtuous itself or, on the contrary, we can establish any criteria through which measure their restoration capability (Teti, 2014)I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
