On the protection of cultural heritage in forest landscapes

Forest

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Renzo Motta¹  Mauro Agnoletti³  Fabio Salbitano³  Marco Marchetti⁴  Paolo Mori⁶  Raul Romano⁷  Tommaso Sitzia⁸  Giorgio Vacchiano⁹ 

[1] Università degli studi di Torino;Società Italiana di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale;Dip.to DAGRI, Università degli studi di Firenze;Università degli studi del Molise;Comitato Alberitalia;Compagnia delle foreste;Osservatorio foreste;Dip.to Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, Università di Padova;Università degli studi Milano Statale

关键词: Landscape;    Coppice;    Chestnut;    Silviculture;    Landscape Constraint;   

DOI  :  10.3832/efor3690-017

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Societa Italiana di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale (S I S E F)

【 摘 要 】

According to the European Landscape Convention (ELC), a landscape means “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors”. Therefore, both human actions and natural processes play a role in shaping the landscape, which is, by this definition, ever changing. “Protecting” the landscape therefore means understanding, accepting and preserving such agents of change that have created it. Conversely, protective measures should not be designed to “freeze time”, nor to restore natural or human-influenced landscape features that have long ceased to exist. These basic concepts, delineated 20 years ago in Florence, are met in some parts of Italy by a dubious interpretation. Landscape protection agencies (Soprintendenze Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio) seem to be oriented towards stopping or limiting the traditional activities that have shaped the current Italian forest landscape, with the purpose of increasing the forest cover for “aesthetic” reasons. Such narrow view contradicts the aims of the ELC and of the related national rules and mechanisms of landscape conservation.

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