Pastures, woods, common goods of Pescocostanzo

practices and prospects for a long-lasting rural culture

Thursday 29-Friday 30 August 2013
Pescocostanzo, auditorium San Nicola

 

Public conference organized by the Municipal Administration of Pescocostanzo with:

Department of Agricultural, Food Production and Forestry Management Systems of the University of Florence; Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche; Italian Geographical Society.

 

The renewed attention for the Bosco di Sant’Antonio of Pescocostanzo, reflected over the last couple of years in the Italian national catalogue of Historic Rural Landscapes and by the 2012 International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens, has opened grounds for dialogue that can bring together the crucial need to protect the natural heritage and concrete prospects of an agricultural, forestry and pastoral economy and culture that can manage that heritage.

Consideration of the enduring value of common goods and of the authority of historical rules affecting civic rights and customs may lead to innovative forms of communal responsibility for the care of such places.

 

Thursday 29^th August, 10.45-19.30

Pasquale Del Cimmuto, The plans of the municipal administration

Mauro Agnoletti, Conditions and prospects of historical rural landscapes

Franco Salvatori, The culture of the Apennine highlands

Francesco Sabatini, Pescocostanzo: the origins and circumstances of a system 

Franco La Civita, Examples of civic rights and customs in Abruzzo

Fabrizio Marinelli, Common goods and civic rights and customs

Domenico Luciani, A place and a rebirth

Contributions from local operators and representatives of: the Majella National Park; the Ministry of the Environment and Land and Sea Protection; the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and of Tourism; the Ministry of Agricultural, Food Production and Forestry Policies; The Abruzzo Regional administration

 

Friday 30^th August, 9-18

Ernesto Di Renzo, The sacred nature of woodlands in the folklore of Abruzzo

Luigi Hermanin, The importance of active conservation for the Bosco di Sant’Antonio

Arturo Sciullo, Agricultural, forestry and pastoral production and dietary habits of communities in the major Abruzzan highland areas   

Elio Torlontano, The rural world and tourism prospects   

Massimo Pellegrini, The opportunities for farmers and stock-breeders that the new Common Agricultural Policy and Rural Development Plans offer for protection of bio-diversity in the Central Apennines 

Diego De Carolis, Powers and connecting instruments linking Park planning and Municipal planning

Nunzio Marcelli, Reflections on an experience

Aurelio Manzi, The natural heritage in the economy and society of Pescocostanzo

Concluding remarks by Pasquale Del Cimmuto, Mauro Agnoletti and Domenico Luciani.