The central theme of this book is ecological and territorialist conversion as a strategic response to the crisis. 'The return to the territory' can be conceived as a valorisation of the common heritage of assets (environmental, urban fabric, landscape, socio-cultural) that mould the identity and lifestyles of every place on the earth. This calls for several issues to be addressed: the fusing of fragmented knowledge into a science of the territory that addresses the problems of socio-territorial and environmental decay in an integrated manner; the definition of new markers and policies of public welfare and happiness, including the landscape as a measure of the quality of peoples' life-worlds; the boosting of tools of local democracy and supportive federalism; the restoration of centrality to the rural world in the production of healthy food, hydro-geological protection measures, ecological reclamation, urban and landscape quality and integrated economies.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
Il territorio bene comune
Editors
Alberto Magnaghi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
160
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-134-8
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-131-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-134-8
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-596-5
Series Title
Territori
Series ISSN
2704-5978
Series E-ISSN
2704-579X