1260 | 930 | How to measure mountain attractiveness: a methodological framework for the Italian Apennines | Diana Ciliberti, Giuseppe Di Felice, Giada Mastrostefano, Monica Meini, Marco Petrella
How should we interpret the processes that still make the mountains an attractive place for a wide range of people? An attempt is made to answer this question, pointing out the need for a fruitful relationship between mountainousness and mountainity in the Italian Apennine mountains. The challenge is to place oneself in the perspective of those who weave particularly significant relational networks in such places. The territorialities of those who, on a daily or occasional basis, practice the mountains will therefore be the object of analysis, allowing us to assume a perspective of investigation that starts from inside the mountains to reach areas outside them as well, without setting pre-established limits in terms of altitude or lifestyles._x000D_
The study will be proposed starting from what we consider to be a kind of nodes, i.e., those areas that can be defined as central to establishing the mountain’s degree of attractiveness. More specifically, the aim is to suggest a methodology for analyzing the mountain that considers its relational systems, both internal and external, thus providing a conceptual framework that considers the various dimensions of attractiveness and the categories of analysis necessary for its measurement._x000D_
The contribution presents an initial application of this methodology to a case study identified in the central-southern Apennine area, High Molise. The interpretation of the dynamics at work in the selected nodes will serve as a guide for the definition of new indicators that will make it possible to measure the attractiveness of these middle mountains through the constitutive relationality of the territories concerned. The interpretation of the dynamics at work in the selected nodes will serve as a guide for the definition of new indicators that will make it possible to measure the attractiveness of these middle mountains through the constitutive relationality of the territories concerned.
Diana Ciliberti, Giuseppe Di Felice, Giada Mastrostefano, Monica Meini, Marco Petrella
University of Molise, Department of Biosciences and Territory-MoRGaNA Lab
ID Abstract: 930