The dissertation relates landscape development to rural development via an multidisciplinary approach joining several different academic disciplines: rural studies, landscape studies, and regeneration, as well as local economic development and innovation. Grounded in a robust literature review, it adopts a mixed research methodology that is both qualitative and quantitative. It investigates how to promote rural development by regenerating rural landscapes, and spurring innovation economies within rural landscapes. This is achieved through two related objectives. First, it examines how the academic and political worlds have conceptualized the “rural” and rural landscapes, and how rural landscapes have been understood in relation to rural development. Second, it proposes an experimental approach that conceptualizes, implements and manages rural development according to an improved landscape approach. Such an approach aims to balance the needs of landscape management and rural economic development. Essentially, it seeks to coordinate the development of innovation economies and landscape regeneration practices, so as to generate a concurrent positive effect on rural development and rural landscapes. Therefore, at the landscape level, the approach helps manage rural landscape changes, and bring about a vibrant, livable countryside. To this end, regeneration at the levels of natural landscape, agricultural and built landscape, and sociocultural landscape is an indispensable tool. At the economic level, it recognizes that healthy landscape evolution depends largely on healthy development of rural economies. It therefore tries to spur innovation economies, such as agricultural productive and entrepreneurial innovations, agricultural cooperatives, rural e-commerce, and sustainable rural tourism, to reinforce the competitive advantages of rural communities, and meanwhile curtail the pressure of economic growth on rural landscapes. This approach is illustrated with examples of landscape regeneration practices and innovation economies from two case study areas (Meixian County in China and the Locride area in Italy). Keywords: rural landscapes, landscape approach, rural development, landscape regeneration, innovation economies

La tesi collega lo sviluppo del paesaggio allo sviluppo rurale attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare che unisce diverse discipline accademiche: studi rurali, studi sul paesaggio e rigenerazione, nonché sviluppo economico locale e innovazione. Basato su una solida revisione della letteratura, adotta una metodologia di ricerca mista che è sia qualitativa che quantitativa. Indaga su come promuovere lo sviluppo rurale rigenerando i paesaggi rurali e stimolando le economie di innovazione all’interno dei paesaggi rurali. Per questo la tesi ha due obiettivi correlati. In primo luogo, esamina come i mondi accademici e politici hanno concettualizzato il “rurale” e “paesaggi rurali” e come i paesaggi rurali sono stati compresi in relazione allo sviluppo rurale. In secondo luogo, propone un approccio sperimentale che concettualizza, attua e gestisce lo sviluppo rurale secondo un approccio al paesaggio migliorato. Tale approccio mira a bilanciare le esigenze della gestione del paesaggio e dello sviluppo economico rurale. In sostanza, cerca di coordinare lo sviluppo delle economie di innovazione e le pratiche di rigenerazione del paesaggio, in modo da generare un effetto positivo concorrente sullo sviluppo rurale e sui paesaggi rurali. Pertanto, a livello paesaggistico, l’approccio aiuta a gestire i cambiamenti del paesaggio rurale ed a creare una campagna vibrante e vivibile. A tal fine, la rigenerazione a livello di paesaggio naturale, di paesaggio agricolo e costruito e di paesaggio socioculturale è uno strumento indispensabile. A livello economico, riconosce che una sana evoluzione del paesaggio dipende in gran parte dallo sviluppo sano delle economie rurali. Cerca quindi di stimolare le economie di innovazione, come innovazioni produttive e imprenditoriali agricole, cooperative agricole, commercio elettronico rurale e turismo rurale sostenibile, per rafforzare i vantaggi competitivi delle comunità rurali e nel frattempo ridurre la pressione della crescita economica sui paesaggi rurali. Questo approccio è illustrato con esempi empirici di rigenerazione del paesaggio ed economie di innovazione provenienti da due aree di studio, ovvero contea di Meixian in Cina e area di Locride in Italia.

Towards a landscape approach to rural development. Landscape regeneration and innovation economies in rural landscapes, cases from Meixian County (China) and the Locride area (Italy) / Ou, Yapeng. - (2019 Apr 30).

Towards a landscape approach to rural development. Landscape regeneration and innovation economies in rural landscapes, cases from Meixian County (China) and the Locride area (Italy)

OU, Yapeng
2019-04-30

Abstract

The dissertation relates landscape development to rural development via an multidisciplinary approach joining several different academic disciplines: rural studies, landscape studies, and regeneration, as well as local economic development and innovation. Grounded in a robust literature review, it adopts a mixed research methodology that is both qualitative and quantitative. It investigates how to promote rural development by regenerating rural landscapes, and spurring innovation economies within rural landscapes. This is achieved through two related objectives. First, it examines how the academic and political worlds have conceptualized the “rural” and rural landscapes, and how rural landscapes have been understood in relation to rural development. Second, it proposes an experimental approach that conceptualizes, implements and manages rural development according to an improved landscape approach. Such an approach aims to balance the needs of landscape management and rural economic development. Essentially, it seeks to coordinate the development of innovation economies and landscape regeneration practices, so as to generate a concurrent positive effect on rural development and rural landscapes. Therefore, at the landscape level, the approach helps manage rural landscape changes, and bring about a vibrant, livable countryside. To this end, regeneration at the levels of natural landscape, agricultural and built landscape, and sociocultural landscape is an indispensable tool. At the economic level, it recognizes that healthy landscape evolution depends largely on healthy development of rural economies. It therefore tries to spur innovation economies, such as agricultural productive and entrepreneurial innovations, agricultural cooperatives, rural e-commerce, and sustainable rural tourism, to reinforce the competitive advantages of rural communities, and meanwhile curtail the pressure of economic growth on rural landscapes. This approach is illustrated with examples of landscape regeneration practices and innovation economies from two case study areas (Meixian County in China and the Locride area in Italy). Keywords: rural landscapes, landscape approach, rural development, landscape regeneration, innovation economies
30-apr-2019
Settore ICAR/21 - URBANISTICA
BEVILACQUA, Carmelina
FUSCHI, Paolo
Doctoral Thesis
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