Managing the landscape as a common good? Evidence from the case of “Mutonia” (Italy)

Mara Cerquetti, Caterina Nanni and Carmen Vitale

Land Use Policy, 2019, vol. 87, issue C

Abstract: This paper aims to verify from an interdisciplinary perspective the possible relationship between and the convergence of the categories of landscape and common goods. First, the international economic and managerial literature on the landscape as a common good is reviewed, with a focus on some recent innovations. Then, the Italian legal framework on cultural heritage and the landscape is discussed. In the second part of the paper, a case study is provided which analyses the regeneration of a disused quarry in the town of Santarcangelo di Romagna (Italy), where the artists’ association “Mutoid Waste Company” has created a theme park with works of art made from recycled materials. The field research investigated the administrative process carried out since the end of the 1990s, the current perception of the area’s value and its possible future development. The results are summarised in a SWOT analysis. The case study highlights the benefits of a bottom-up approach involving different stakeholders through a site-specific urban planning tool in terms of landscape protection, urban regeneration, community well-being and tangible and intangible externalities. The conclusions also point out how the case study could be a model for the sustainable management and use of the landscape.

Keywords: Landscape; Common goods; Public management; Sustainable land use; Subsidiarity; Urban regeneration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837718319513
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:87:y:2019:i:c:s0264837718319513

DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104022

Access Statistics for this article

Land Use Policy is currently edited by Jaap Zevenbergen

More articles in Land Use Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joice Jiang ().