Il
patrimonio culturale e naturale delle isole europee: un approccio
interdisciplinare
[Natural and Cultural Heritage in the European
Islands: an Interdisciplinary Approach]
Edoardo Lorenzetti
National Research Council of Italy
CNR-CERIS
Institute for Economic Research on Firm and
Growth
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Mario De Marchi
National Research Council of Italy
CNR-CERIS
Institute for Economic Research on Firm and
Growth
Via dei Taurini 19, Roma
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Abstract: The designing of a new knowledge model – to be tested
on particularly significant cultural areas such as Islands and on their
historic urban spaces, taking into account the tangible and intangible elements
of their historical cultural heritage – is a concrete opportunity to resume a
debate aimed at identifying a scientifically correct and interdisciplinary
methodology of analysis to attain thorough knowledge of the various factors
that contribute to the definition of historical, architectural, anthropological,
and landscape-based features of towns and historic centres, particularly those
of islands.
This knowledge
process should strive to overcome an approach, focused mostly on the protection
of individual architectural features of great historical-artistic importance.
This perspective concentrates on monumental structures and major architectural
works rather than on a much wider heritage, made up of artefacts displaying
various levels of quality, which take on specific scientific relevance because
of their mutual functional and structural relations and the historical, social,
anthropological, and landscape context which they express. However, following
such a method, the various disciplines involved in the research activity can
assess their mutual ability to relate to one another when they deal with a wide
subject, which actually includes several areas of common interest. A
methodologically correct research view must provide a knowledge framework that
is both detailed and comprehensive in describing the mutual relations among the
features of historic centres as well as how the latter are linked to the
surrounding environment and landscape.
Last but not least,
it can be clearly seen that such an operation would pave the way for specific
sector-based interventions with great economic potential for the areas
involved; even if adequate tools of such economic analysis are still lacking.
Keywords: Landscape, historic urban
spaces, intangible cultural heritage, economy, cultural heritage information
systems.
JEL Codes: H41
Il lavoro è frutto della stretta collaborazione,
scientifica e operativa, fra gli autori. Ai soli fini di attribuzione formale,
la responsabilità dei §§ 1 e 2 è di Edoardo Lorenzetti, quella del §§ 3 è di
Mario De Marchi.