Considerations on local development and the Mediterranean legacy

The Mediterranean region is a biocultural hotspot. It is full of history and remains. Is this enough to revenge an our own Mediterranean legacy? How this legacy was given us? What kind of evolution our identity heritage was subjected to? In other words: how much valuable and viable the present identity is? The "TERROIR" concept might provide us some answers. A skilled spatial analysis might provide an excellent assessment of landscape elements and land-uses. But, what about the functionality of that landscape? As a final consideration: a landscape terroir is definitely the results of the human-environmental interaction; depending on human practices, a terroir can be more or less valuable and viable; to maintain the local legacy for the future generation, it is better to recover and certify the good practices that make the terroir viable, rather than an a priori recognition of the simple origin of a product.