Agriculture and sustainable rural development in mountains areas

INTRODUCTION

Anna Giorgi – Director of UNIMONT Centre, President of the Bachelor’s Degree in Conservation and Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas and President of the Master’s Degree in Valorization and Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas

RELATOR

Johann Baumgärtner – Associate Director and Research Fellow of Center for Analysis of Sustainable Agro-ecological Systems (CASAS)

CONTENTS

Valorization and sustainable development of mountain areas

• introduction
• The design of agriculture for sustainable rural development
• Monofunctional profit-oriented agriculture
• Multifunctional agriculture
• Sustainable agriculture
• Pathways to agricultural sustainability

Sustainable rural development

• Introduction
• Assessment of short and long-term sustainability
• Eco-social system properties and adaptive management
• Navigation and governance
• Concluding remarks

QUESTION AND DISCUSSION