An Integrated Management System and Governance for a Productive UNESCO Cultural Landscape

This chapter focuses on the necessity to adopt resilienceResilience as an approach for an integrated managementIntegrated management system to continuously align the dynamic concepts of context, planning, inputs, processes, outputs, and outcomes to the preservationPreservation of the Outstanding Universal Values that characterize a cultural landscapeCultural landscape. The concepts of diversityDiversity, redundancyRedundancy, network connectivityNetwork connectivity, modularityModularity, and adaptabilityAdaptability found in literature have been selected as central elements for an effective resilienceResilience discourse. They have been detailed by 24 actions and 32 sub-actions to help decision-makingDecision-making to preserve and enhance cultural landscapesCultural landscape. Lastly, the research reveals solid ties between identityIdentity and resilienceResilience. Site-based and place-related heritage, people- and community-centred approaches, living heritage, community-led changes, sense of place, and adaptation are crucial to achieving landscape resilienceLandscape resilience. In brief, this study provides for building landscape resilienceLandscape resilience as an approach for reinforcing territorial inputs and processes and fostering innovation. It manages attributesAttributes and valuesValues by planning work courses that include short- to long-term actions. Some hints for the management of ordinary rural and peri-urban landscapes have been also proposed, gathering suggestions from the debate on the UNESCO cultural landscapesUNESCO cultural landscape discussed in this research.