Many sheep breeds are characteristic of several Italian rural areas and produce a significant amount of greasy wool that is not directed towards local textile supply chains but it is often thrown into landfill or even incorrectly destroyed in the environment. The consequences are: impacts on the environment, the loss of biodiversity and economic wool income breeders could integrate with their main one, the loss of agriculture knowledge and related rural traditions. Rural capital can favor sustainability that, in return, can develop a real means for maintaining and reinforcing the social-economic and cultural capital of a rural area. This mutual relationship is at the basis of instruments rural areas can use in order to become more resilient in counteracting times of crisis. This work is an explorative study aiming at analyzing the linkages and relationships between rural capital and the exploitation of agro-environmental resources, with particular regard to the "green dimension" of safeguarding native sheep breeds and wool.
Rural capital as source and effect of a sustainable development: the exploitation of native sheep breeds in Maremma, Tuscany
F Camilli;
2013
Abstract
Many sheep breeds are characteristic of several Italian rural areas and produce a significant amount of greasy wool that is not directed towards local textile supply chains but it is often thrown into landfill or even incorrectly destroyed in the environment. The consequences are: impacts on the environment, the loss of biodiversity and economic wool income breeders could integrate with their main one, the loss of agriculture knowledge and related rural traditions. Rural capital can favor sustainability that, in return, can develop a real means for maintaining and reinforcing the social-economic and cultural capital of a rural area. This mutual relationship is at the basis of instruments rural areas can use in order to become more resilient in counteracting times of crisis. This work is an explorative study aiming at analyzing the linkages and relationships between rural capital and the exploitation of agro-environmental resources, with particular regard to the "green dimension" of safeguarding native sheep breeds and wool.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.