Collective Landscapes. The Gran Consortile di Riclaretto and Collective Property in the Germanasca Valley
Michele Francesco Barale|Margherita Valcanover
Communal land management is a core element of the Alpine mountain landscape. In Germanasca Valley, situated in Italy’s Turin region, collective form private shared ownership has been taking place for centuries.This study, perhaps first its kind this particular geographical area, seeks to sketch picture these proprietary structures and bring out their salient features by investigating value realities today. This type described with regard location, property use rights, landscape economic dimension. The last point focus two recently established associations (As.Fo.) located on same axis management.While some properties are still being used as they were originally intended, others remain only paper, have lost history. Among properties, case Gran Consortile di Riclaretto Perrero stands that managed virtuously transform adapting current dynamics.Archival sources oral interviews basis research, which was conducted an eye passage history analysing territory paper investigates meaning neighbouring but strategic view towards future environment itself.
Journal of Alpine research | Revue de Géographie Alpine