Marginal Areas, between Potential and Future Projects
Marginal Areas, between Potential and Future Projects

Summary/Abstract: Alpine areas in the last decades of the 20th century have witnessed a remarkable process of depopulation: the effects on the environment caused by the abandonment of agri-pastoral practices have extended beyond the local dimension, changing landscape features and cultural traditions and transforming these areas into marginal lands. For some years now, however, there have been various attempts throughout the Alps to reintroduce different types of historically-documented cultivation: this recovery, which is at once economic, cultural and touristic, plays a significant role in the interaction, collaboration and exchange between local communities and acts as a bridge between tradition and contemporaneity.

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