Abstract
My hypothesis regarding the role of historical rural landscapes is simple: from a glance at the Catalogue it is apparent that the geography of historical rural landscapes, or rather their relicts (with respect to the dominant role of the agroindustry in contemporary economies) not only refers to the remains of agricultural mosaics in a few lowland areas but also to prevalently mountainous and hilly areas in which the added value of traditional products (such as wine and oil) are still competitive with intense urbanisation and agrarian industrialisation. The geography of these areas, with particular regard to polycolture, is largely composed by derelict areas. These landscapes are destined to reinforce the core areas of regional ecological networks either through desertion and subsequent spontaneous reafforestation or because it has been decided that they should be converted into protected areas. In brief it is an ecological way of “selling off” historical rural landscapes of scenic interest which could be perceived as an attempt to compensate for the environmental disasters caused by contemporary urbanisation.
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See for instance Law 1/2005 of Tuscany Region on territorial government
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Idda Let al. (2005) (Journal of Agricultural Economics).
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The concept of an agricultural park whose basic role is to design agroforest areas with multi-sectoral functions, was developed at the intersection between two different territorial typologies: the peri-urban area whose inhabitants express a strong demand for new rurality (recreation, food, environmental and landscape quality) and the rural environment which is undergoing an extreme transformation towards multifunctionality.
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The ecological value of agricultural, woodland, and farming areas is often higher than that of areas of “renaturation”; hence the remains of agricultural mosaics and traditional crops have a connective value and act as stepping stones (hedges, plantations, the complexity of land use, the density of the mosaics as an element of biodiversity: irrigation canals, riparian vegetation in rivers and torrents).
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Essential specifications for integrated basin plans;
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The founding elements of the increasing demand for food safety and quality, not to mention landscape quality.
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“From the relationship between “new agriculture” and economic solidarity Networks new models of social cohesion which can help to start transformation processes on a local level which, in turn, give rise to innovative services which act as a response to the degradation of community life which we are not only experiencing in the suburbs or in mountainous hilltop areas, but also in metropolises themselves” (Biolghini 2007)
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Magnaghi, A. (2013). The Role of Historical Rural Landscapes in Territorial Planning. In: Agnoletti, M. (eds) Italian Historical Rural Landscapes. Environmental History, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5354-9_3
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