Etnobotánica en el Alto Valle del Reno (Toscana y Emilia-Romaña, Italia)

The Upper Rhine Valley (AVR) is borderland between the Italian regions of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna. The natural and cultural heritage based upon ethnobotanical knowledge in the AVR area has been studied, documented and analysed using semi-structured interviews. The information is presented through an ethnological and floristic catalogue, including both cultivated and wild species known to the local community. Although there is evidence of a great biocultural richness in the old oral tradition, important erosion phenomena threatening the conservation of ethnobotanical knowledge (immaterial culture) and associated plants (material culture) have been highlighted. The reasons behind the phenomena are partly due to the abandonment of agro-pastoral practices, as well as to the significant changes in the management of the territory and in the life forms

Etnobot\ue1nica en el Alto Valle del Reno (Toscana y Emilia-Roma\uf1a, Italia) : Etnobotanica nell’Alta Valle del Reno (Toscana ed Emilia-Romagna, Italia)

The Upper Rhine Valley (AVR) is borderland between the Italian regions of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna. The natural and cultural heritage based upon ethnobotanical knowledge in the AVR area has been studied, documented and analysed using semi-structured interviews. The information is presented through an ethnological and floristic catalogue, including both cultivated and wild species known to the local community. Although there is evidence of a great biocultural richness in the old oral tradition, important erosion phenomena threatening the conservation of ethnobotanical knowledge (immaterial culture) and associated plants (material culture) have been highlighted. The reasons behind the phenomena are partly due to the abandonment of agro-pastoral practices, as well as to the significant changes in the management of the territory and in the life forms.El Alto Valle del Reno (AVR) es una tierra de frontera entre la Toscana y Emilia- Roma\uf1a. El patrimonio natural y cultural basado en el conocimiento etnobot\ue1nico en el AVR ha sido estudiado, documentado y analizado a trav\ue9s de entrevistas semiestructuradas. La informaci\uf3n se presenta en un cat\ue1logo etnofior\uedstico sobre las especies cultivadas y silvestres conocidas por la comunidad. Aunque ha sido documentada una gran riqueza biocultural perteneciente a la tradici\uf3n oral y ancestral, se han resaltado importantes fen\uf3menos de erosi\uf3n que amenza la conservaci\uf3n de los conocimientos etnobot\ue1nicos (cultura inmaterial) y de las plantas asociadas (cultura material). Las razones de esto se deben en parte al abandono de las pr\ue1cticas agropastorales y a los dr\ue1sticos cambios en la gesti\uf3n del terriorio y en las formas de vida