S UST LE L OC OCAL D EVELOPMENT OPMENT AND ND THE HE M ARGI GINAL H UM UMAN H ABITATS USTAINABLE Dip Dipak ak R. R. Pant ant Ph.D.
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Source: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, 2007
Reality experience: frequency and intensity of rapid and discontinuous changes in weather/climate. Climate science: nothing certain (!?!?) Climate uncertainty and environmental change, what are the options? Only two real options are available 1. Being serious about the reduction of human vulnerability - principle of precaution, preventive measures to control the risk and contain the damage, fostering collective resilience. Choosing durability, fairness and beauty – strive for sustainability 2.
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Sustainable loval development in the marginal contexts (such as remote rural habitats, areas of industrial decline etc.) Focal points to survey in a socio-economic context • Habitat (factors, conditions) • Community (demographic trends, society, institutions) • Ethos (culture, aspirations, values) • Business (activities and actors) • Human capital (skills, competencies)
Field-survey Ethnographic approach to economic and environmental issues + Collaborative Foresight Exercise Elaboration of alternative images of future with the local communities = St Strategic gic Plann Planning ing for or Sus Sustaina ainable ble Ec Econ onomy omy in in the he m mar argina ginal l an and d dis disad advan antage ged d co cont ntext xts selected cases (Italy, Armenia, Venezuela and Mongolia)
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Revival of a medieval Alpine village that has witnessed demographic and economic and Mission: decline in the last four decades Progetto Bussola - Comunità Eco-Tech Un programma di collaborazione tra l’ Unità di Studi Interdisciplinari per l’Economia Sostenibile (LIUC) e la Provincia (amministrazione provinciale) di Varese
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia MARZIO Val Ganna, Lombardy Alps, northern Italy
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Scenario Matrix Local Policy Alignment (+) Scenario 1 Scenario 4 Optimal path External Investment External Investment Trend (-) (+) Actual position Scenario 2 Scenario 3 (-) Local Policy Alignment
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Caucaso Venezuela Mongolia Strategy Communitas • Cultural resources management • Re-enactment of lost festivities • New cultural, literary, artistic and scientific events • Typical local products expo Habitat • New PGT (land-use plan) as destination development tool • Multi- form mobility and new ‘park - approach’ facilities • Maximization of belvedere (scenic panorama watching spots) • Incentives and persuasion for upkeeping private properties Technology • Info-telematic connectivity (boradband, wi-max) • Free small training courses, Information, incentives and persuasion for the use of renewable energy, bio-organic horticulture and other sustainable techniques • Free small training courses in computer literacy and info-telecom technology to general public
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Re-habilitation of the damaged landscape, restoration of the cultural resources and Mission: agricultural development in northern Armenia (southern Cacasus)
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia SHIRAK Southern Caucasus, north-western Armenia
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Scenario Matrix Local Entrepreneurship (+) Destination Development Policy Destination Development Policy Scenario 1 Scenario 4 Optimal path Trend (-) (+) Actual position Scenario 2 Scenario 3 (-) Local Entrepreneurship
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Strategy Destination development, environmental re- Training activities, qualification, landscape management and business incubation, micro-credit and appropriate infrastructures support services Community involement Increased quality of context Human capital formation Community awareness Visits and investments (business development) Income and employment PLACE-BRAND Sustainable Economy
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Sustainable rural development in the highest altitude municipalities of Venezuela Mission:
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Misiòn Tierras Extremas del los Andes Tropicales ( Rangel , Tabay y Santo Domingo - Estado Merida - Venezuela)
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Caucaso Venezuela Mongolia Scenario Matrix Environment and Landscape Quality (+) Scenario 1 Scenario 3 Human Capital Quality Human Capital Quality Optimal path (+) (-) Actual position Trend Scenario 2 Scenario 4 (-) Environment and Landscape Quality
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Strategy Professional training activities and on-the-job Environmental re-qualification, and landscape training services management Community involvement Increased quality of context Human capital formation Community awareness Family enterprises, local cooperatives (business development) Income and employment PLACE-BRAND Sustainable Economy
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Caucaso Venezuela Mongolia MONGOLIA
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Caucaso Venezuela Mongolia Mission: Scientific co-ordination of EU-TransMongolia Partnership Project (field-survey, strategic planning and capacity-building) General Objectives of the EU-TransMongolia Partnersip Project: • To strengthen commercial links between EU and the great Mongolian cultural area (Mongolia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China) and trade links between Mongolia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China • To introduce “sustainability” in tourism and related businesses in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China • To reinforce primary sectors (livestock- breeding, farming, forest products…) and traditional crafts through new business development and diversification opportunities made possible by sustainable tourism • To increase the international market knowledge and access of Mongolian and Inner Mongolia herders, traders and business-operators in order to reduce their vulnerability to exploitation and unfair trading.
Ghemme Como Wellness Marzio Armenia Venezuela Mongolia Scenario Matrix Identity Assets (+) Ideal path Raw Material Export Dependency Raw Material Export Dependency Scenario 4 Scenario 1 Actual position (-) (+) Current trend Scenario 2 Scenario 3 (-) Identity Assets
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