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This chapter describes the collective action related to the ‘Custody of the Territory’ project, an initiative promoted by a local authority of a mountain area of Tuscany (‘Media Valle del Serchio’) which set an agreement with local farmers for the co-production of some environmental services. This local authority set a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) with local farmers, with the main objective of increasing the resilience to flooding by improving the landscape and hydro-ecological management of the territory. This innovative approach to PES, based on collective action, shows how the relations between farming activities and environmental services could be addressed at territorial level, which resources are mobilized, what type of information is exchanged and what outcomes are reached. Finally this case study shows how social learning and co-production of knowledge (amongst farmers, institutions, technicians, and citizens) are very important issues for a collective provision of environmental services.
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The transect walk ended with summarizing the information gathered during the walk and this was used as a point of discussion for the following interviews and transect walks, favouring the ‘iteration’ process of the grounded theory approach undertaken in the research (see Appendix).
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Vanni, F. (2014). The project “Custody of the Territory” in Media Valle del Serchio (Tuscany). In: Agriculture and Public Goods. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7457-5_4
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