Many biodiversity types, especially the typical ones of Italian rural landscapes, depend on the traditional rural practices and are connected with an active presence of the man, not with
RESEARCH
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![The restoration of the terraced landscape of Punta Mesco](https://www.landscapeunifi.it/land/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/PuntaMesco1-900x600.jpg)
Punta Mesco is a promontory that separates the bay of Levanto from the bay of Monterosso, in the Cinque Terre, and is one of the most distinctive and fascinating landscapes
![Verrazzano Castle](https://www.landscapeunifi.it/land/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/verrazzano1-900x600.jpg)
One of the problems for the development of effective actions in defense of the landscape is tied to a still insufficient clarification of its contribution to economic development. Even if
![The restoration of Sant’Antonio Wood in Pescocostanzo](https://www.landscapeunifi.it/land/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/S.Antonio1-900x600.jpg)
The Sant’Antonio Wood in Pescocostanzo (AQ), une of the main wooded pastures, that in Abruzzo are called difesa, is famous for monumental trees of beech, acer, pear-tree, carachterized by
![Landscape and Hydrogeological risk: the environmental disaster of 25 October 2011 in Cinque Terre](https://www.landscapeunifi.it/land/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/5_TERRE_Es1.1-900x600.jpg)
The research carried out during November 2011 had the purpose to study the relationship between terraces and hydrogeological risk in the area of the Cinque Terre, where an environmental