Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su14148843
Keywords
agricultural landscapes; UNESCO cultural landscapes; landscape observatory; cultural heritage; bottom-up approaches; community participation; people-centred approach; integrated management
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The adoption of the European Landscape Convention highlights the significance of raising awareness and promoting citizen participation in transforming the European landscape. The Landscape Observatory for Montferrat and Astigiano aims to increase local community awareness and establish a participatory model to support special protection measures in the province of Asti and the Piedmont region in Italy.
The adoption of the European Landscape Convention by the member states of the Council of Europe emphasized the importance of raising awareness of, promoting and educating local communities in, and fostering the activism of all European citizens in the process of transforming the European landscape. The work carried out by the Landscape Observatory for Montferrat and Astigiano was to raise awareness in local communities regarding landscape protection processes that those communities could steer, as required by the Code of the Cultural and Landscape Heritage of the Italian State (2004). Consequently, for the first time, a participatory model was established in the province of Asti and the Piedmont region in Italy to support the community-driven requests for a special protection decree for some targeted areas. In this paper, the process and novel multisource methodology used for the two pilot cases are reported, where the landscape values to be protected were identified through local community involvement. Supported by the Landscape Observatory and experts, the broad participation allowed their recognition of Public Interest. These recognitions are relevant because they rely on a shared perspective of populations for the self-management of their landscapes. They represent an operational model for other local communities in the Council of Europe countries.
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