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The Relevance of Common Lands in Building Cultural Landscapes: The Case of Cento (Italy)

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dc.contributor.author Minora, Francesco en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:34:47Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:34:47Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-11-12 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-11-12 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1162
dc.description.abstract "In this paper I will present the outputs of an empirical research I carried out for my Phd thesis in Urban Territorial and Environmental planning. I will examine the case study of Cento and of its Partecipanza placed in the north middle-east of Italy. The Partecipanza is a thousand years old association of citizens which manages some common lands nearby Ferrara and Bologna in a marshy area. Since the beginning of the twentieth century Italian laws try to wind up all the common lands. The Partecipanza and few other associations were saved from this policy thanks to their recognized role in developing their territories. The long lasting presence of a common management in an area, and in particular in Cento, has a strong role in defining a kind of Cultural Landscape, according to the most accepted and used global definition of it. During the last fifty years an industrial evolution of the area of the North- east of Italy changed the regional landscape. The Partecipanza had a role in making in the past and preserving the today's landscape. In this paper the economic and social evolution of the area of Cento is studied through landscape transformations. The main idea is that space elements, such as the presence of marshes in Cento, has a relevance not just in defining local rules of management of the land resource, but also in defining balances of functions and principles of projecting landscapes. The questions I will try to answer are: - How does common management coexists with socio - economic transformation and what kind of outputs can we consider? - Can we consider that the Cultural Landscape was produced as a way to measure the impact of common management in a global context? - What relevance should the symbolic elements have in managing and projecting common lands?" en_US
dc.subject culture en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject resource management en_US
dc.subject capitalism en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.title The Relevance of Common Lands in Building Cultural Landscapes: The Case of Cento (Italy) en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Italy en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.subject.sector Land Tenure & Use en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates July 14-18, 2008 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Cheltenham, England en_US


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