La costruzione giuridica del paesaggio: un patrimonio immateriale tra territori, identità e cultura

Abstract

Shaping Legal Landscapes: An Intangible Heritage Between Territories, Identity, and Culture - The essay adopts a ‘cultural’ reading when assessing landscape and its creation, management, enhancement, and transformation. The merits of such a reading may be understood in terms of ‘cultural heritage’. These will be put under scrutiny, also paying attention to their ‘material’ or ‘immaterial’ sense. This will be done by critically perusing Italian national legislation (e.g., Article 9 of the Constitution and the Legislative Decree n. 42/2004, which is “Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape”), and international covenants (such as the 2000 European Landscape Convention, the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the 2005 Faro Convention on the value of cultural heritage to society). This path that will shed new light on the cultural dimension of the landscape as a legal tool whose connotation is both ‘identitarian’ and ‘participatory’.