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Successful Agricultural and Socioeconomic Transformation in Mountain Areas

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 7614

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Thomas Streifeneder

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Institute for Regional Development, EURAC Research, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Interests: economic geography; agricultural and socioeconomic development in mountain areas; transformation processes in rural areas; agritourism; literary geography; spatial literary studies
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Dr. Christian Hoffmann

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The Eurac Research Institute for Regional Development, 39100 Bozen, Südtirol, Italy
Interests: agricultural and forestry economics; economic transition processes in rural mountain areas; rural value-added chains; rural urban relationships; circular economy; statistics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The future of mountain regions strongly depends on what happens outside the mountain ranges; local solutions must be implemented. Most challenges, such as over-tourism, agricultural policies and mobility, are due to processes and developments that originate from the outside. Considering geographic interrelationships is crucial for understanding cause and effect. Which developments will drive the future of mountain regions? What effectively do stakeholders and decision makers have to do to improve sustainability? What goal-oriented and implementable information do they need in order to realise socio-ecological transformations?

Much scientific information is available but not considered, because of it being too abstract, not commonly developed, not place-based and relevant and/or simply not addressing the specific problems of the inhabitants and locals. How can we overcome this situation? What hinders the implementation of socio-ecological developments? How did municipalities and regions succeed to implement resilient and smart solutions? Which politics and collaborative processes do we need in order to successfully and effectively change processes? Many promising initiatives show that mountain regions are pioneers for a smart and more sustainable future. What are their success factors and narratives that may positively influence others?

These are some questions that the Special Issue intends to present and discuss. Contributions are welcome, but not limited to, the works presenting implemented projects and activities in the framework of smart and socio-ecological transformations, dealing with local/community and regional development, governance and political sciences.

Dr. Thomas Streifeneder
Dr. Christian Hoffmann
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Politics and decision-making processes
  • Social innovation
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation
  • Circular economy and biological economy
  • Smart villages
  • Inclusive and integrative planning

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Qualitative Assessment of Agritourism Development Support Schemes in Italy, the USA and South Africa
by Giulia Grillini, Giovanna Sacchi, Lisa Chase, Jacqui Taylor, Christelle C. Van Zyl, Peet Van Der Merwe, Thomas Streifeneder and Christian Fischer
Sustainability 2022, 14(13), 7903; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14137903 - 29 Jun 2022
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Agritourism has grown rapidly in many countries worldwide. However, for all this success, little is known about the concrete implementation, actual extent, and effectiveness of public and private agritourism support measures aimed at keeping up farming and promoting agritourism. Hence, the objective of [...] Read more.
Agritourism has grown rapidly in many countries worldwide. However, for all this success, little is known about the concrete implementation, actual extent, and effectiveness of public and private agritourism support measures aimed at keeping up farming and promoting agritourism. Hence, the objective of this study is to provide an overview and a comparison of agritourism supports and policies in different countries. To this purpose, specific political, legal, financial, and promotional instruments for agritourism have been investigated. The focus is on three countries with strong agritourism sectors and different socio-cultural characteristics: Italy, the USA, and South Africa. The analysis of these case study areas is motivated by examination of agritourism from different continents with a diverging status of development as well as history. Italy and the USA are two countries with well-established and successful agritourism sectors; however, these are based on very different framework conditions, resulting in specific development paths and various supportive driving factors. South Africa has been included as a representative case study of a developing country where agritourism operations are growing rapidly through the support of an active private sector association. By assessing commonalities and differences in public and private support backgrounds in three different continents, the present study represents the first exploratory attempt to understand the influences of public and private national and regional framework conditions for agritourism development. Our findings suggest that both public and private supports contribute to success; however, clear criteria and further research are needed in order to fully understand the implications. Full article
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Territorialization of Public Action and Mountain Pastoral Areas—Case Study of the Territorial Pastoral Plans of the Rhône-Alpes Region, France
by Carine Pachoud
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 8014; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13148014 - 18 Jul 2021
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Territorialization aims at improving the effectiveness of public action by adapting to local contexts and including a wide diversity of actors. In the 2000s, the French local authorities, with the support of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), launched more transversal [...] Read more.
Territorialization aims at improving the effectiveness of public action by adapting to local contexts and including a wide diversity of actors. In the 2000s, the French local authorities, with the support of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), launched more transversal and bottom-up policies on the development of mountain pastoral territories in order to counter national and European sectoral and top-down policies. This article focuses on the Territorial Pastoral Plans (TPPs), a policy of the Rhône-Alpes region, which funds projects defined collaboratively between multiple actors in pastoral territories. The objective is to shed the light on the implementation modalities of the TPPs, and to understand the strengths and weaknesses of this policy in terms of governance to respond to the sustainability challenges of the Rhône-Alpine pastoral territories. A document analysis was achieved and interviews were conducted with nine key actors from four pastoral territories. Results showed that awareness-raising and mediation projects are becoming increasingly important because of the growing conflicts linked to the multi-purpose use of these lands and to wolf predation. Moreover, the integration of environmental actors allows better consideration of ecology in projects. However, the current budgetary restrictions limit their capacity of action within the policy. Full article
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