2012 Programme
Event #28
Mauro Agnoletti, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni
Culture, environment, landscape. For a possible, sustainable future
The Italian landscape does not only reflect the country’s recent history: it is our very identity. Be it urban, natural or agricultural, in the past thirty years Italy’s landscape has undergone constant changes but little or no attention had been paid to the artistic heritage that makes it unique or to the damage done by construction work to the soil. Starting over from culture means not only to recover the pride of being Italian but also to develop the country’s talent. For the modern notion of landscape, understood as an economic, environmental and social resource rather than an elitist phenomenon, requires a change in the models proposed by politics, as well as in the culture. This dialogue between two great experts who are personally committed to safeguarding the Italian landscape will take place 10 months after the floods that destroyed the area of La Spezia and the Lunigiana.
Mauro Agnoletti is Professor of Agricultural and Forestry Systems Planning and Environmental History at the School of Agriculture of the University of Florence. He is president of the Landscape Observatory of the Region of Tuscany, scientific coordinator of the Register of Rural Landscapes in the field of rural development policies at the Ministry of Agriculture, and president of the scientific committee of the FAO World Programme on Agricultural Heritage. He has worked with UNESCO, the World Bank, the Council of Europe and the Convention on Biological Diversity. His works include Historical Rural Landscapes. For a national catalogue (2010) and History of the forest. Il paesaggio forestale italiano (2018), published by Laterza.
has been President of FAI-Italy’s Environmental Fund since 2010. In 1993 she was one of the founders of Amref Italia, an NGO that set up health and educational programs for Africa. She has worked for the Summit of Solidarity, an umbrella organization including the leading no-profit agencies in the field of welfare and scientific research, created to promote a culture of no-profit organizations and transparency in donations. She is a member of the Consiglio Superiore of Banca d’Italia since 2012. She wrote Per un’Italia possibile. La cultura salver il nostro Paese? (Mondadori Electa, 2012).
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Event #28
Mauro Agnoletti, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni
Culture, environment, landscape. For a possible, sustainable future
