Assessing the Resilience of Socio-Ecological Systems to Shape Scenarios of Territorial Transformation

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LA VALORIZZAZIONE DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURALE NEL PAESAGGIO CALABRESE: EREDITA' ED INNOVAZIONE

The social and ethic involvement of society in the enhancement of cultural and natural resources is essential to fight the deterioration and abandonment of the landscape. The territorial cooperation programmes like INTERREG develop by years a territorial, economic and social cohesion among european countries through performative tool like ecomuseum, able to relate resources, landscape and local identity. The present study proposes an ecomuseum for the Grecanic Area of Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (IT), starting from an analytic phase to define a set of objectives and strategies, and a survey phase investigating on the perceptions of local community and tourists toward grecanic culture and landscape's values following the logic of Cultural mapping. The data collected are transferred in project phase: the Grecanic Ecomuseum.DOI: http://dx.medra.org/10.19254/LaborEst.10.0

Evaluation of NBS Solutions for Climate Resilience and Adaptation in the Sub-saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana’s Ashanti Region

The new challenge of the century is the development of sustainable projects. It is crucial to consider integrated solutions to evaluate project consequences at the social, geographical, physical, ecological, and technological levels in a future where climate hazards will increase owing to anthropogenic activities. As a result, the topic of this paper is the creation of a hybrid methodology for evaluating the aforementioned implications. The "Okyena for a Free Future" project in Manso Abore, in Ghana's Ashanti region, is used as a case study for the methodology. OFF proposes the construction of a school hub that can accompany the entire community towards social and economic development while also taking climate resilience and adaptation measures into consideration. In this environment , perhaps more than in others, the necessity to provide actions that can contribute to community expansion without compromising the development of future generations is clear. The A'WOT model, together with other assessment methods like Stakeholder Analysis and Scenario Building, enables taking multiple factors into account at once to handle the world's increasing complexity. By doing so, it is feasible to highlight the perspectives of the key players and provide decision-makers with a logical foundation for choice dilemmas involving various, frequently at odds objectives. By assessing the viability of implementing NBS solutions, the model aims to facilitate the deployment of alternative techniques

Landscape Economic Attractiveness: An Integrated Methodology for Exploring the Rural Landscapes in Piedmont (Italy)

The present paper focuses on an integrated evaluation methodology aimed at measuring the attractiveness of rural landscapes. The landscapes under observation are two exceptional contexts in Piedmont (Italy): The Moraine Amphitheatre of Ivrea and the vineyard landscape of Langhe, Roero and Monferrato, which have recently been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The proposed investigation tool consists of the use of a system of landscape indicators, from which a synthetic index called the landscape economic attractiveness index has been obtained, and the integration of the results in a dynamic model, considering the synthetic index as a factor of people mobility in a multi-pole system. This integrated approach aims at supporting the decisionmaking process in the definition and orientation of landscape and territorial transformation policies, respecting the landscape components

Landscape Economic Value for Territorial Scenarios of Change: An Application for the Unesco Site of Langhe, Roero and Monferrato

The present paper focuses on the issues related to the economic value of landscape and the role of indicators and indices systems. The aim of the study is the definition of a synthetic index of Landscape Economic Value (LEV) through a system of economic indicators, to measure the attractiveness of Vineyard Landscape of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (IT), recently included in the UNESCO World Heritage List (2014). Furthermore, the synthetic index is employed in a dynamic transformation model that works in a cluster system of municipalities, where the Landscape Economic Value acts as an attractor factor generating people flows. The results obtained by the evaluation model might be an innovative proposal to define development territorial scenarios in decisional making-processe

Planning sustainable tourism in UNESCO wine regions: the case of the Langhe-Roero and Monferrato area

Tourism may be an important leverage for local development. At the same time, it may trigger unwanted effects, ranging from the congestion of services and infrastructures to the progressive deterioration of the assets that they plan to valorise. The article sheds light on this tension, discussing the multiple implications that increasing tourism fluxes generate in the vineyard landscape of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2014. The case study highlights the need to coordinate and enhance coherence among the existing planning and management instruments, towards the consolidation of a multi-level integrated territorial governance framework aimed at the sustainable spatial planning of tourism in the area

Group Analytic Hierarchy Process Sorting II Method: an Application to Evaluate the Economic Value of a Wine Regions Landscape

In the ongoing context of climate change, there is an increasing need to support decision-making processes in the domain of landscape planning and management. Suitable evaluation techniques are needed to take into account the interests of actors and stakeholders in shared policy decisions. An important methodological contribution to the field is given by the Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), due to its ability to combine multiple aspects of a decision problem with the values and opinions expressed by different Decision Makers. The present paper develops the “Group Analytic Hierarchy Process Sorting II method” (GAHPSort II), which aims to sort a group of municipalities included in the UNESCO site “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero, and Monferrato” (Italy) according to the economic attractiveness of the landscape. Extending the previous versions AHPSort I, AHPSort II and GAHPSort, the GAHPSort II optimizes multi-stakeholder evaluations on large databases by reducing the number of comparisons. Moreover, the GAHPSort II method is proposed as a novel spatial decision support system because it combines a set of economic indicators for landscape and GIS methods for aiding the Decision Makers to better understand the case study and to support the definition and localization of policies and strategies of landscape planning and management

Role of Cultural Mapping within Local Development Processes: a Tool for the Integrated Enhancement of Rural Heritage

Abstract. Cultural mapping consists in an innovative tool of knowledge, utilized in the local development processes to enhance territorial resources and to increase local growth in terms of environmental, social and economic sustainability. This research investigates links in strategic planning between heritage, communities and local identity, where knowledge analysis represents the starting-point to define a series of objectives, expressed by local community and by the whole society. Cultural mapping is here applied in the Grecanic Area, a Southern Italian region rich of material and immaterial resources in terms of history, nature, culture and it represents a possible instrument for local development, contributing to arise awareness of the local cultural heritage, discarded too many times just for an ephemeral seaside tourism. The research methodology is companied by a survey about the perceptions of the cultural values, material and immaterial, feeling by the community, tourists and visitors. Data are collected and elaborated as graphics and histograms to get an exhausting vision of the country, especially the historical traditions to the contemporary ones. The results are transferred in a Cultural planning's action within the borders of the Metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria. Introduction Since 90s Cultural mapping toolkit has become very popular in several downtowns of Europe, facing with contemporary issues like the difficult relationship between historic towns and periphery, whose effects are traduced in physical and social exclusion as well as marginality. Several strategic measures were adopted in cultural policy such as empowerment of social capital, creative environments and new governance models. Within a systematic view all these tools are named Cultural mapping. Still nowadays the relation between Cultural mapping and Cultural planning provides many positive effects through international and national applications

VALUTAZIONE DEL VALORE ECONOMICO DEI BENI CULTURALI IMMOBILI PER LA LORO RESILIENZA: IL CASO DI STUDIO DELLA CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA DEI MIRACOLI

Climate change, natural disasters, and human activity subject cultural heritage to several shocks and disturbances. The interest in risk reduction and management has increased significantly over the last decades, including for cultural assets. To protect and value them for future generations, the current issue is the increasing of their resilience. This research work is related to the European project ResCult - Increasing Resilience of Cultural Heritage: A Supporting Decision Tool for the Safeguarding of Cultural Assets . This paper aims on the one hand to illustrate the state of the art on risk assessment in the European context, highlighting its fragmentation, and on the other hand, to determine the economic value expressed by the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice (Italy) through the Travel Cost Method (TCM), as one of the components value to support risk assessment of Cultural Heritage. This study considers how the suggested strategy may be applied on a European level