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Towards a Definition of Landscape Resilience: The Proactive Role of Communities in Reinforcing the Intrinsic Resilience of Landscapes

The resilience approach seems to be related to the understanding of the concept of strong sustainability (Neumayer, 2003; Voghera & Giudice, 2019), which requires flexibility, integration, and empowerment. Resilience can be a useful lens to interpret the transformative action of territory and landscape, seeking a balance through projects still linked to the landscape in a generic way.

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Landscape resilience and UNESCO Cultural Landscapes. The relation between resilience and the landscape identity in response to the anthropogenic variation of the systems.

In living landscapes, permanence and identity necessitate introducing co-evolutive resilience concepts in planning. Lack of adaptability is identified in the Management Plans of UNESCO “Cultural Landscapes” about discounting identity compared to newcomers. The “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato” and the “Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces” case-studies are identified to investigate social adaptive changes, in a long-term.

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The joint force of bottom-up and top-down in the Preservation and Renewal of Rural Architectural Heritage, taking Piedmont, Italy as the case study.

 The purpose of this research is to clarify the path of preservation and renewal of the built heritage in the Italian countryside, and summarize it as a “joint force” characterized by the combination of bottom-up and topdown approaches. The first part analyzes the formation of the joint force model and its components. The second part analyzes. The evolution of the related policies.

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