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This contribution will examine the relationship between linguistic practices and the development of the indigenous Misak community in Colombia. Based on qualitative data from two field surveys conducted in the Guambfa resguardo, Cauca department, in 2021 and 2022, our approach includes semi-structured interviews, participant observations, and workshops in the indigenous language (TERPLO) with students at various levels. Our theoretical framework will be grounded in the principles of Giovanni Agresti's Social Development Linguistics, which emphasizes on-the-ground intervention in collaboration with language speakers to improve the quality of life for marginalized populations. By analyzing the Misak case, we will identify the crucial role of minority languages in the intergenerational transmission of ancestral knowledge and community practices, thereby promoting sustainable development and territorial reappropriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Decentralization is in the world, a striking fact of public governance and territorial planning. In the Cameroonian context, it represents a stake a governance issue that gives decentralized local authorities (Regions and Communes) the power to act for the implementation of local development. As a dynamic process currently maturing in Cameroon, decentralization as an instrument of territorial management has a prominent place in political speeches. The objective of this communication is to analyze Law n°2019/024 of December 24, 2019 on the general code of decentralized territorial communities and its impact on the special status of the North-West and South-West Regions in times of crisis. The methodological framework used in this investigation is documentary research (use of physical, webographic) and oral sources. Our research is based on a qualitative approach and highlights the progress of decentralization through the 2019 law on the English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

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The presence and coexistence of deagrarianization and reagrarianization movements within Italian Inner Areas implies the adoption of keys to understanding their evolution that take into account both processes that generate the so-called "voids" (e.g. demographic decline, erosion of territorial capital, etc.) and processes of territorial resistance and renaissance. Accordingly, the paper explores the nature and peculiarities of both movements in Central Sardinia, specifically in the territories of Barbagia, Mandrolisai and Ogliastra. Empirically, it focuses on the mechanisms that characterize a young farmers’ back-to-the-land process by individuating the motivational aspects that determine the choices for starting an agricultural business for the first time or taking over an existing farm, and identifying the elements that place the action of the farm beyond its perimeter, in an articulated system in which the new agrarization is a pivotal element of a broad process of territorial regeneration and reconnection with urban areas.

The aim of this article is to analyse the contribution of the Senegalese and Turkish migrant fisheries for small coastal pelagics to the supply of the fishmeal and fish oil industries in Mauritania. The data used are those relating to Senegalese pirogues and Turkish coastal boats. Both types of vessel operate in the area reserved exclusively for coastal fishing. This work is based mainly on IMROP data. Other data were also used : those from the Ministry of Fisheries and those collected during field surveys carried out between 2019 and 2022 along the coastline. The results show that the migratory pelagic fishery has a significant impact on the development of the processing industry and the exploitation of fishery products in Mauritania. Migrant catches will amount to around 540,000 tonnes by 2020, and will also help to meet Mauritanians’ food requirements for fish by supplying local and inter-city fish markets through the SNDP. However, the migratory fishery for small coastal pelagics has a limited impact on Mauritania’s socio-economic development. The foreign currency earnings generated by the fishmeal and fish oil industry remain abroad and do not benefit the country. The industry’s impact on promoting employment remains very weak, even marginal, with a large foreign workforce. The situation of pelagic fisheries in Mauritania has also raised serious sustainability issues in recent years. Rigorous co-management measures should be taken at national and regional level to ensure the sustainable management of stocks, which are already showing signs of depletion.

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The CENTRAIDER network, which federates 900 actors of international solidarity in the Centre Val de Loire region, is 20 years old. This is a long enough time to reflect on the evolution of its missions and on the drivers that have guided its development. A nascent and fragile structure yesterday, Centraider is an organization recognized in the region, inserted in the national network of 12 regional multi-actor networks with a collective governance, the CIRRMA (Interregional Conference of Regional Multi-Actor Networks), and associated with many national institutions. These 20 years reflect the interactions between the strategies and values of the management team, the political history of the Region, that of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, and those of the 900 partners federated by Centraider. Three periods are thus distinguished: the birth of Centraider (1995-2002), the structuring of the network (2002-2014) and its opening towards the national level (2014-2020). In terms of the development of territories, whether they belong to developing countries or to the Centre Val de Loire region, three tensions have marked the life of the network. Humanitarian aid has gradually faded away, without disappearing, in favor of development aid marked by a strong partnership with local companies. The professionalization of the employees and the increasing integration of Centraider into the national networks of international solidarity have modified the links with the 900 partners in the region, particularly with the smallest associations. Finally, the role of Centraider’s partners in the local development of the Centre Val de Loire region has long been overlooked. However, the tens of thousands of volunteers working for NGOs involved in international solidarity make a significant contribution to local development and social cohesion.

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This study aimed to discover the perceptions of Moroccans about environmental volunteering; the study is an understudied area of research that would be one of the valuable researches for practitioners in the voluntary sector who wish to create tailored programs. We found that understanding the prevailing views on environmental volunteering is not always straightforward; it is a relationship between humans about their natural environment, which is shaped by local beliefs, and socioeconomic, religious, and cultural factors. Environmental volunteering in Morocco involves conducting environmental education, workshops in schools, and environmental protection, as well as participating in projects carried out by teacher organizations for environmental education and sustainable development.

O envelhecimento demográfico em Portugal é uma realidade regionalmente diversa, pelo que conhecer os contextos de envelhecimento é essencial para promover políticas e ações ajustadas às necessidades das populações e ao desenvolvimento local. A elaboração do Plano Gerontológico de Idanha-a-Nova partiu destes pressupostos, utilizando uma metodologia mista : levantamento de necessidades através de ​questionários, audição da população para apresentação dos resultados e propostas de ação, entrevistas semiestruturadas aos responsáveis locais, associações e IPSS. Destacam-se as fragilidades na escolaridade e rendimento da população, na interação entre instituições e serviços e na resposta a algumas necessidades essenciais. Apesar das fragilidades, é de realçar a vontade da população e responsáveis locais em participar na discussão e resolução dos problemas. Este Plano já possibilitou mudanças, revelando-se uma ferramenta replicável capaz de contribuir para a inovação social dos territórios.

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Roots tourism is developing in Italy, both in the field, through the intermediary of companies that host and supervise it, and in terms of training, with the creation of a master's degree in roots tourism at the University of Calabria at the end of 2020, and finally thanks to the political support and encouragement of the Italian state. What is the situation in France? This paper will try to compare our two countries in terms of the organization of tourism and its development structures. Roots tourism is a relatively recent concept which, in France, seems to be in its infancy, while the pool of tourists concerned is very large. To understand this apparent contradiction, we will look at a form of tourism that in some ways masks the real weight of 'family' roots tourism in France: this is remembrance tourism, which is omnipresent, developed and well-regulated in France, particularly around the battlefields of the two world wars. We will then show that two types of roots tourism can be developed in France: an endogenous type, perhaps the most obvious (linked to the rural exodus of the 19th century and the rediscovery, today, of the countryside for a return effect) and an exogenous type linked to the longer history of France and its links with Quebec and its former African colonies. In contrast, genealogical tourism and roots tourism seem to be still underdeveloped, whereas their supervision (private or public) could generate a new tourism economy that is still in its infancy. According to some specialists, roots tourism is said to be much more inclined to discover 'authentic' territories and their cultures, and would provide an alternative to mass tourism, to 'classic' tourism, which is now criticized as depredatory and polluting. The conclusion of this paper will show how the current post-Covid-19. context favors this more personalized and perhaps more intimate type of travel. Thus, there is no doubt that roots tourism is becoming a promising part of the tourism economy.

Place Branding is a theoretical, economic and public policies that needed many years to be gradually acknowledged and told apart by Place Marketing. The academics that dealt with the production and distribution of the places’ image, as matter of fact, often did it with a marketing-oriented approach, trying to measure how and many tourists, investors and new inhabitants were attracted by specific communications campaigns. Over the course of time, however, Place Branding has been increasingly identified as a more complex and multidimensional theme. By the end of this point of view changing process, Place Branding was not only and independent matter of study, but also was comprehending Place Marketing as an ancillary component. The Place Branding, indeed, has been described, during the last fifteen years, as a territorial government tool, even worthy to have specific institutional structures, too. “Participatory Place Branding” and “Public Branding” theories, at last, describe Place Branding also in its most social aspects and contemplate the need of participation during the local image management processes. Place Branding, in conclusion, can be now considered an independent matter of study and policies, which needs to develop new strategies to involve all the stakeholders in the local promotion process. The emancipation of Place Branding, however, still requires to overcome the common prejudice that links it to the commodification of spaces, which pushes some disciplines not to consider it an interesting study object in local development studies. To do so, it is necessary to address more precisely how the narratives about a place influence its development and to understand how the local development dimensions interact with the actions related to local Place Branding. This article wants to contribute to expand the knowledge about the connection between Place Branding and local development. It will try to do so using a still under-exploited methodology for this kind of studies, that is the visual content analysis as described by Bell (2000) and Parmeggiani (2011). This methodology will be applied to a dataset of pictures in the tourism context, taking in consideration that, even tourism has a certain tradition in visual studies, it often has been addressed to mere economic aims. Tourism visual narratives will be also considered as an important source of data because of the great importance that Anholt (2007) attaches to it as communication channel of a place. The research will consist of a comparison between different narrative lines about the same rural village of Central Italy, Postignano. It is a deserted hamlet bought by a private company that wants to make it live again attracting new inhabitants, tourists and investors, but also connecting it with the surrounding territory. This project, naturally, is taking place within an Italian region – Umbria – that already has its own active narrative on places like this one – that are a specific characteristic of its territory – and it could be interesting compare what are the similarities and differences between the different narratives activated by these entrepreneurs and the regional government. Another under-valuated narrative will be produced and considered for this article, that is the local inhabitants’ one. Using the photo elicitation technique, indeed, a further comparison will be made, with the aim to underline what are the characteristics of the territory that have not been considered during its promotion. Visual content analysis of different narratives produced by Place Branding in tourism field can give useful hints about what is excluded by place branding and about many potentialitiesthat can be carried out. This approach, indeed, is a way to confront different points of view, opinions and desires on the many different possible development paths that a place can choose.

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Since the 1980s, the notion of mediation has flourished and there has been exponential growth in mediation practices and the use of mediators. Landscape architecture has also been affected by this booming trend which resulted in the emergence of the idea of landscape mediation at the end of this decade. The first theoretical constructs and practical applications in this field came from applied research and scientific experimentation mainly conducted by agronomists and geographers. The purpose of this article is to carry out a critical analysis of the body of research produced by these researchers during the 1990s and 2000s. On this basis, we will seek to shed light on the context and theoretical, epistemological and methodological assumptions underlying this pioneering research which very often addresses local development issues in rural areas. The aim is to describe and analyse the concepts developed as well as the tools and methods employed.

Subdivision operations are conceived as instruments capable of planning the use of space and improving the living conditions of the population. In the commune of Sèmè-Podji, the process of implementing allotment operations sometimes leads to disputes by certain actors in the locality.The objective of this research is to study the effects of disputes over subdivision operations on the improvement of the urban living environment. To achieve this, an analysis of the documents relating to all the subdivision operations carried out in the municipality was carried out. This analysis was supported by field surveys with a sample of 272 people.The results obtained show that contests over subdivision operations sometimes delay the establishment of socio-community infrastructures. But they force the various actors involved to make compromises and thus relax the application of the directives of the rigid and incomprehensible administrative land organization in order to put in place a new form of land governance accepted by the population.

The "1 % landscape and development", a relational opportunity. The example of the A19 motorway in France. The 1 % landscape and development is a support mechanism that is implemented in parallel of road infrastructures development or requalification. In the areas where the infrastructure is developed, this mechanism finances actions to enhance the landscape in order to promote local development. Tried out in 1989, this instrument was generalised in 1995 but is now in decline, supplanted by measures to promote biodiversity. At the national level, the article explains its institutional trajectory, put in perspective with the evolution of the relationship between landscape, development and environmental measures. Then the article analyses the local implementation of the 1 % landscape and development from the case study of the A19 motorway in the region Centre in France. The instrument contributes to develop relationship between local actors, and also between local actors, infrastructure et landscape elements. The implementation of the instrument contributes to enhance landscape elements that make sense for local actors around the infrastructure, and which contribute to articulate political landscape and vernacular landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work identifies a dual process in intergenerational cultural transmission and reception mechanisms: on the one hand, a break in historical continuity between past and present, and, on the other, the use of its legitimacy to make a mark on history. The approach emphasizes two aspects of cultural and economic transformation, the change induced by sudden, pervasive events, and the plasticity of cultural reception. Therefore, it is intended to argue that without the socio-cultural disposition to accept change, economic transformations cannot work. Drawing on this idea, this article aims to elucidate how cultural transmission crosses time, allowing humanity to recognize and legitimize a new socio-economic order.

Wine tourism, a tourism sector characterized by trips made with the motivation of visiting and getting to know wineries and wine regions, is considered as a marketing tool and a way to promote local development and has assumed greater importance for wine regions in recent years. The European Wine City (CEV), is an international wine tourism initiative, promoted by the Network of European Wine Cities (RECEVIN), which has already contemplated several wine regions, namely, Reguengos de Monsaraz, in 2015. This initiative caused several impacts, for wine producers, for the community and for the territory, that will be analysed in this article.

This book contains a thorough analysis of the way state-budged funds were distributed by the Romanian government during 2017-2020 through The National Program for Local Development (PNDL), the largest state-funded development program, not devoid of controversies. At the intersection of sociology, public administration and public finance, the analysis offers a valuable tool for understanding how the complex funding environment operates at different levels of public administration in Romania.

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The present contribution poses a problem of weak capitalization of potentialities of the milieu by the actors of development to create a real territorial construction. In view of this observation, the hypothesis that was tested and verified here stipulates that: The Moungo department disposes of huge natural and human resources able to impulse its territorial development. This study was realize from the geographic method of research: the hypothetico-deductive approach, observation, documentary research, analysis and interpretation. The qualitative data exploited was obtained from the observation in situ, structured and semistructured interviews and the quantitative data exploited was obtained by quota sampling and pluridisciplinary approach. The results we have achieved show us that: The Moungo department has enormous potential which can be capitalized so that it becomes a true autonomous centrality. This being assets that can be part of Cameroon's public policy, that of the emergence by 2035 of rural areas. Therefore, the results below allow us to state that the initial hypothesis has been verified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to examine the potential of truffle production and its market in the Aspromonte area. Through interviews with leading operators, collectors, transformers, retailers and restaurateurs, the strengths and weaknesses of the sector, the risks to the external environment and the opportunities offered by the economic system, as well as the needs raised by the operators who in various ways deal with truffles in the Calabria Region was considered. The results show that truffles are natural biological products and play an important role in the management of woodlands: if they are present they are a formidable indicator of environmental health. The results showed that the truffle supply chain can contribute to the promotion of growth strategies for Calabria as indicated among the objectives of the 2030 Strategy Agenda in Goal 11.a Session 1, point 1 which aims at the conservation, redevelopment and promotion of poor or fragile areas with qualitatively significant cultural and environmental heritage. The truffle sector's ability to attract new economic flows generated by production activities, from territorial marketing, from fresh or processed product marketing and from services capable of guaranteeing additional income for farmers and supply chain operators was also highlighted. The results finally showed that the use of SWOT analysis in niche food products provides useful indications for regional development planning actions, for marketing activities, for the promotion of sustainable tourism, for the recovery and enhancement of rural buildings and for the food and wine routes that revolve around the production of truffles and the gastronomy based on fresh and / or processed truffles. Produzioni di pregio, tutela e recupero delle aree interne aspromontane: il ruolo del tartufo Scopo di questo articolo è esaminare le potenzialità della produzione e del mercato del tartufo nell’area aspromontana. Attraverso interviste ad opinioni leader, operatori, raccoglitori, trasformatori, rivenditori e ristoratori, sono stati messi in luce i punti di forza e di debolezza del comparto, i rischi dell’ambiente esterno e le opportunità offerte dal sistema economico, nonché le necessità sollevate dagli operatori che a vario titolo si occupano di tartufo nella Regione Calabria. I risultati mostrano che i tartufi sono prodotti biologici naturali e che svolgono un ruolo importante nella gestione dei terreni boschivi: se sono presenti rappresentano un formidabile indicatore di salubrità ambientale. I risultati hanno evidenziato, altresì che la filiera del tartufo può contribuire alla promozione di strategie di crescita per la Calabria come indicato tra gli obiettivi della Strategia Agenda 2030, Goal 11.a Sessione 1, punto 1, che punta alla conservazione, riqualificazione e promozione di aree disagiate o fragili con patrimoni culturali e ambientali qualitativamente significativi. Si è inoltre evidenziata la capacità del settore tartuficolo di attrarre nuovi flussi economici generati dalle attività di produzione, dal marketing territoriale, dal marketing del prodotto fresco o trasformato e dai servizi idonei a garantire reddito supplementare aggiuntivo per gli agricoltori e per gli operatori della filiera. I risultati hanno infine mostrato che l'uso dell'analisi SWOT in prodotti alimentari di nicchia fornisce indicazioni utili per le azioni di pianificazione dello sviluppo regionale, per le attività di marketing, per la promozione del turismo sostenibile, per il recupero e la valorizzazione dei fabbricati rurali e per i percorsi enogastronomici che ruotano intorno alla produzione di tartufi e alla gastronomia a base di tartufi freschi e/o trasformati.

Concerns about poverty and precariousness phenomena in rural areas are being increasingly recognized ; nevertheless, the heterogeneity among rural areas constitutes an obstacle for taking care of them. And yet, some difficulties are specifically rurality-related matters. Deterioration of travel conditions reinforce the difficulties and limit access to basic human rights. Access to affordable housing and a strong inter-knowledge are additionnal factors compelling us to reconsider the best way to intervene in rural areas. Regarding poverty as well as the complexity of the forms it can take, actions aimed at improving the situation of people in precarious situations are diverse and mobilise a wide range of stakeholders in various fields with their very own scope of intervention. In order to adapt more efficiently to the specific features of their regions, stakeholders dealing with these issues are testing more territorialised and collaborative actions, often at the scale of inter-municipal associations. Innovative approaches are emerging. Although some territories and measures embed the fight against poverty within local projects and community development, these actions remain minimal.

This work, which is originally the result of a professional master's research, aims to analyze and systematize the achievements and challenges of the Family Farming Schools (EFA’s) linked to the Network of Integrated Farming Schools of the Semiarid (REFAISA). This network develops the pedagogy of alternation through basic education (elementary school II) and high school professional, having twenty-five years of experience in the Brazilian Semiarid (SAB). The methodological approach was based on qualitative research and action research mediated by participatory methodologies as tools for problematization and data collection from June 2017 to June 2018, with the subjects and social groups of Sobradinho's EFA's, Correntina, Macaúbas sprouts, Rio Real, Irará, Alagoinhas and Monte Santo, in the state of Bahia, and Ladeirinhas (Japoatã), state of Sergipe. Advances are evidenced in the formation of adolescents and young people in connection with the territories and their complexities, and in the promotion of Contextualized Education in Alternation with its pedagogical instruments that guide the integral formation of the subjects. In addition to the importance of networking through REFAISA, which has enabled the pedagogical advice and institutional policy of affiliated EFA's. The main challenge is the guarantee and maintenance of the public financing of the EFA's and their institutionality as public policy of the State and not of government.

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Coworking spaces only host a very small part of the active population, yet they are part of a process of profound transformations relating to working, workplace practices and their environments. They attract growing interest from political and academic circles, particularly in terms of their potential for economic development. Our research shows that their contributions are mainly observed on another level: that of urban planning and local development. Looking at the case studies of Montreal (Quebec) and Tours (France), it appears that some of the spaces have transformative effects on the local level, provided that they combine different fields of action in urban planning based on regulations, collaboration between stakeholders in the urban project, and support for initiatives led by the community and entrepreneurial sectors that are specific to tactical urbanism.

This article contributes to research on urban geopolitics through an extrospective theorization of local territorial influence on the international stage. Empirically, the article focuses on a comparative study of extrospective development initiatives from Malaga (Spain) and Mazara del Vallo (Sicily) that have recently emerged in response to the effects of the Great Recession. We examine the symbolic, infrastructural and territorial dimensions of these strategically outward-oriented processes in order to advocate for a more transversal conceptualization of local geopolitical power than has been typically employed in current research. In doing so, our specifically extrospective approach provides a pathway for thinking across three key analytical distinctions that underpin geopolitical reasoning in the French School of Geopolitics: (i) those concerning territorial actions internal and external to the nation-state; (ii) the rapport between political and economic power rivalries, and; (iii) the role of conflict or consensus animating territorial action. Together, the issues seek to provide political geographers with scope to imagine alternative spaces by which local geopolitics is constituted today.

Until a few years ago, the panorama of recent architectural production in the southern Alps seemed merciless. Now the balances have partially balanced themselves out, defining new geographies. If we look at the phenomenon with a certain detachment, we can see that the accumulated delay has not only harmed. In fact, considering the scene of today’s global architecture, the exasperated tension for the morphology, the search for the sensationalism of the image as an essential element of marketing, the authorship and self-referentiality of the gesture seem to finally disappear. In other words, the new, the novelty – not to be confused with innovation – as ontological values, has, fortunately, lost part of its appeal, in favour of other themes linked to the context, the appropriateness of uses, compatibility, environmental, to the rewriting and reuse of the existing. If we link this to the current socio-economic situation, which sees the reconsideration of inland areas, the crisis of certain models of consumption – including tourism – of the territory and the redistribution of flows, unprecedented opportunities arise for previously marginal geographical realities, if not completely excluded from the circuits and narratives of the glamorous mountain. This gives rise to design opportunities cultivated in understatement, perhaps “suffered” but far from the “performance anxieties” that often connote glossy and designer interventions that we usually see elsewhere.

When compared with the central-eastern ones, the Western Alps have experienced a growing marginality in the new century. After all, getting out of the heavy legacy left by twentieth-century modernisation – abandonment of territories and tourism – is not easy. Today, however, there seems to be some evidence of a radical change in sensitivity, characterised by an awareness of the potential and limits of the contemporary architecture in relation to local dimension. This is how environment, landscape, history, traditions, heritage are no longer just a “fetish” to be exhibited for the mountain users, but become the threads with which contemporaneity tries to mend the ties interrupted with the territories. Quality architecture no longer seems to be just a self-referential exercise of composition, but a conscious opportunity to translate the demands, imaginaries, expectations, identities of the territories, in physical projects. Projects that are within the processes and that necessarily respond to compromises, in which sometimes the aesthetic-formal aspect is only one among all that control the project, that become the result of extremely diversified and contrasting questions. This working condition, always at the edge of the processes, inevitably also affects the forms of architecture, in which the difficulties and precariousness of the operational context become a prerequisite for the characterisation of the figurative and architectural aspects.

The rural department of the Alpes de Haute-Provence has a variety of agro-terroirs allowing the cultivation of a wide range of agricultural productions. For about thirty years, the product-terroir-landscape triptych has become a local development issue. The promotion of productions through short circuits is important in this tourist department, at the gates of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis. These productions also supply food companies and others in the field of cosmetics and perfumes. The cultivation of lavender-lavandin, whose products are little valued by short circuits, has become over the years an identity marker of these low-alpine landscapes, a source of attractiveness for tourism.

The rural region of Demmin, located in the north-east of Germany, is affected by peripheralization: population departures, economic weakening, political dependence and stigmatization. The promotion of the natural and cultural heritage could therefore be a way of developing the region. The article questions the extent to which the enhancement of heritage contributes to local development or reinforces the situation of dependency of the region. Heritage-based development projects are often encouraged by public policies, as they allow local actors to federate around a project that they design themselves from the resources of their own territory. However, the post-socialist and peripheralization context of the region limits the supposed benefits of this mode of valorization. Moreover, the strengthening of regional identity and the enhancement of heritage are mainly for marketing purposes, and for customers outside the territory. The risk of local actors losing power in their territory is therefore increased.

The aim of this paper is to identify the manner in which emblematic restaurants are related with the agri-food heritage of Quito from the connection with small local producers. Based on a case study, an analysis was made around empirical observations and secondary sources. The results show that the food offered tend to be acquired from large suppliers of remote areas, decoupling from the local agricultural sector. It is concluded that tourism can play an important role in the equal distribution of income among the diverse economic participants of the sector and in the continuity of the local agri-food systems. For this, the coordination between the tourist and agri-food industries is fundamental, starting with the logic of local commerce.

The current interest for local products has promoted the development of tourism on their production areas. Gastronomy festivals organised to celebrate agricultural and food local products are very important for the tourist development of ordinary places. Festive events around local food products, where locals and tourists can discover a territory through its culture and its gastronomy, can be a vehicle for territorial identity and local development. The examples of pork (in all its forms) and truffle can be analysed to show how food products (ordinary or luxurious), are used to develop tourism in ordinary places.

The presented research began with the mapping of the geographical areas in which the Italian Regions have launched the “Internal Areas pilot project”. The goal is to test a model of socio-economic revitalization through development interventions funded by the Community and the Stability Law. Specifically, we first identified the Internal Areas and, subsequently, the initial and potential local development conditions of the prototype areas. Subsequently, we analyzed the organizational forms present in these prototype areas in order to contextualize the process innovations with a view to active protection and agri-food systems development. The project actions put in place were therefore examined, so that the protection of the territory can be returned to the local community and the co-production of innovative services, public-private co-governance, the associated management of the activities between municipalities can be guaranteed.

The Argentine province of San Juan is considered as an emblematic case given that the authorities’ speech underlines its character of “mining model province”. By analysing the reconfiguration of public and private agents’ system as well as the power relationships which develop in various scales, it seems that the local socio-spatial translations of the relations of dependence thus woven are the expression of political choices linked to the mining activity and the fragility of the model.

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"The recent history of urban development in Italy largely stems from a policy – here intended as a set of actions and strategies of administrators, entrepreneurs and experts – which has been incapable of planning transformations and, therefore, adopting a shared and far-sighted approach to development. The urban regeneration of metropolitan areas and their consequent demographic and economic development (70% of the population and 80% of GDP are concentrated in these areas) have often penalised internal areas such as the Alps and Apennines. Some peculiar experiences, including the regeneration of the village of Ostana (Cuneo), the project carried out in Contrada Bricconi (Bergamo), or even the activities of the association Dolomiti Contemporanee (Belluno) – just to mention a few interesting cases in the Italian Alps, – show that the understanding of and care for a unique territory are the pillars on which any informed political, administrative, architectural or territorial project should be based. This approach is all the more important in the framework of those events envisaging the construction of large infrastructures (such as the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina). After these events, such infrastructures are often abandoned because they are useless for the territory, economically unsustainable in the long-term, and not shared with the local community. In this perspective, the work of the association Architetti Arco Alpino (Alpine Arc Architects), whose activities range from architecture awards to photographic surveys, conferences and publications, aims to understand the complexity of mountain areas and to promote architectural quality. In this framework, they have successfully shown how the problems are often the same regardless of geographical and cultural distances. The solution to these problems is to be found primarily in the act of listening to the places and history of the local population; whether in the Alps or elsewhere, every good project based on a contemporary and conscious approach starts from there."

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The article explores the tense coexistence among elements of different origins in the ways of managing East Timorese life. The study is based on the criticism usually applied to rituals (lia) as draining family resources that become obstacles to modern forms of social and economic development. Through the analysis of a specific type of ritual, the importance of negotiation skills is highlighted as an inseparable part of local governance techniques. The State's ambiguous position in relation to local ritual elements is understood as an expression of the parasitic use of culture as a form of governance. We suggest that more important than its eventual economic impact is the fact that lia is a form of shaping the relationship of a local community to the State, providing a model of vertical hierarchical solidarity that guides the relationship of the Timorese with their modern governance institutions.