The Tuscan Experience

Abstract

This chapter describes the inductive study developed through four different case studies, located in the “less favoured areas” of Tuscany. That research choice is due to the fact that ecomuseum was regulated after it widely spread within the Tuscan territory, in spite of what happened in other Italian regions. In this way, the creation and the innovation of governance models — such as the ecomuseum — appear as the outputs of a spontaneous institutional change process. This empirical analysis highlights how the crisis should stimulate the implementation of the “community governance” within a cultural heritage-based sustainable development.