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Title: | Fragmented governance in the rural landscapes of Alentejo (Portugal) |
Authors: | Muñoz-Rojas, José |
Keywords: | Sustainable Development Mediterranean Countryside Landscape Governance Territorial Cohesion Agricultural Intensification |
Issue Date: | 5-Jul-2019 |
Publisher: | IALE- International Association of Landscape Ecology |
Citation: | Muñoz-Rojas, J. Fragmented governance in the rural landscapes of Alentejo (Portugal. IALE-2019. Milano. |
Abstract: | The rural landscapes of the Alentejo (Portugal) are undergoing a rapid process of change,
with agricultural intensification potentially hampering their values and character. Whilst
much of the rural landscapes in the region are still dominated by traditional multi-functional
land-use systems, these are gradually becoming less competitive in a context of globalization,
financialization and intensification. In such context, innovation is considered as a merely
technological challenge, with other forms of innovation remaining largely marginal. The
governance framework for land-use change currently in place is highly fragmented and
uncoordinated, with an overall vision and strategy for the rural landscapes of the region
largely lacking. Under such framework, the most likely future scenarios indicate to an
increasing difficulty to tackle pressing challenges including climate change mitigation,
biodiversity conservation and the protection of cultural attributes, whilst securing the
financial sustainability of the rural sector. In response, this paper will discuss an analytical
framework useful for identifying the key gaps in the current governance framework, and to
envisage alternative options. Such framework includes the following sequential steps: i.
Mapping the governance instruments and actors-networks driving rural land-use and
landscape change in the Alentejo. ii. Identifying the miss-matches and trade-offs of relevance
for the scalar, spatial and institutional coordination of governance instruments and actors, iii.
Defining tailored solutions to fulfill these gaps. The paper will focus on the olive grove
expansion and the crisis of the Montado, hereby considered as paradigmatic case-studies, We
will close-up the paper by discussing how a joint consideration of the the territorial, social
and institutional aspects of innovation can help design a novel governance framework more
efficient for attaining sustainable regional development and territorial cohesion. |
URI: | https://iale2019.unimib.it/proposed-symposia/symposium_53/ http://hdl.handle.net/10174/28451 |
Type: | lecture |
Appears in Collections: | MED - Comunicações - Em Congressos Científicos Internacionais GEO - Comunicações - Em Congressos Científicos Internacionais
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