Private Protection Initiatives in Mountain Areas of Southern Chile and Their Perceived Impact on Local Development—The Case of Pumalín Park

This paper seeks to contribute to existing literature by exploring the potential impacts of Peer-to-Peer (p2p) accommodation on a rural mountain area in the Pyrenees in Catalonia (Spain). The results indicate how widely p2p accommodation can penetrate areas of this kind. The findings suggest that this phenomenon has brought few benefits for local development and has created severe competition for conventional tourism accommodation, despite having a smaller economic impact in terms of job creation and tourist spending. In addition, the relative ease with which it avoids administrative and fiscal controls has negative repercussions for the tax revenues of local authorities. The growth in tourist rental properties is also having harmful effects on the study area in terms of its tourist load capacity, and the high pressure it puts on housing stock is causing shortages in residential housing and sharp price increases.

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Multicriteria Spatial Analysis for Competitive Cultural Heritage in Fringe Areas: The Case of Valle d’Aosta Vastles

Advanced Engineering Forum ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/aef.11.579 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 579-584

Author(s):

Alessandra Oppio ◽

Marta Bottero ◽

Valentina Ferretti

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Local Development ◽

Regional Scale ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Spatial Decision Support ◽

Mountain Areas ◽

Spatial Features ◽

Development Processes ◽

Definition Of

The Alpine territories show a strong potential in reaching the targets set out by the European policies related to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The present paper reflects about the role of cultural heritage in supporting local development processes in mountain areas. In particular, Valle d’Aosta castles’ system (Italy) is considered in the study, with particular reference to the analysis of the opportunities and the risks at the regional scale. The results of the work delineate how Multicriteria-Spatial Decision Support Systems (MC-SDSS) can support the definition of enhancement strategies by providing a wide and integrated knowledge of the cultural heritage under investigation. The introduction of MC-SDSS in the field of historical assets’ conservation is quite innovative. Differently from the traditional analysis, the use of such an integrated approach allows decision maker to consider the spatial features of each development option and to evaluate simultaneously their multidimensional impacts.

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Evolution and Antimicrobial Resistance of Enterococci Isolated from Pecorino and Goat Cheese Manufactured on-Farm in an Area Facing Constraints as per EU Regulation 1305/2013 in Umbria, Italy

10.20944/preprints202105.0304.v2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Beniamino Cenci-Goga ◽

Musafiri Karama ◽

Juan García-Díez ◽

Saeed El-Ashram ◽

Cristina Saraiva ◽

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Keyword(s):

Rural Development ◽

Value Chain ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Local Development ◽

Raw Milk ◽

Mountain Areas ◽

Equal Distribution ◽

Eu Regulation ◽

Goat’S Milk ◽

Goat's Milk

The latest EU regulation on geographical indications (EU Regulation No. 1151/2012) has intro-duced a set of new tools for the protection and enhancement of food products in rural areas, under the group name of optional quality term (OQT). The Commission Delegated EU Regulation, No. 665/2014, regulated the conditions for the use of the optional quality term «mountain product» (MP), to support the implementation of a mountain value chain. This new tool is aimed at pro-moting local development, maintaining the economic activities in mountain areas and redistrib-uting wealth, whilst, at the same time, promoting the territory. Pecorino and goat cheeses are typ-ical Italian cheeses made usually with whole raw ewe's or raw goat's milk, without starter cul-ture addition. In an attempt to characterize these productions, the aim of this study was to inves-tigate the evolution of enterococci during the production and ripening of Pecorino cheese made in three different farms, located in Umbria, Italy in areas facing natural or other specific constraints as stipulated by Regulation 1305/2013 on support for rural development by the European Agri-cultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). Enterococci are enteric organisms which are commonly isolated from ewe and goat's milk production in Umbria, Italy. Counts of enterococci in raw milk ranged from 1.75 for ovine milk to 3.62 for ewe milk and a marked reduction was observed after thermization especially in ovine milk. Out of 100 isolates, 69 were E. faecium, 23 E. durans, 8 E. faecalis and 2 E. casseliflavus and the distribution of species between farms and be-tween samples showed a prevalence of E. faecium in ovine farms and E. durans in ewes farms, with an equal distribution between samples. High percentages of susceptible isolates were found for amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, sulphamethoxazole, sulphameth-oxazole/trimethoprim, ticarcillin, vancomycin. A high prevalence of resistant strains (> 30%) was observed for amikacin, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, kanamycin, tetracycline. A comparison of this results with those of previous works on similar dairy products revealed high levels of resistance to antimicrobials which needs to be addressed.

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Landscape and Tourism as Tools for Local Development in Mid-Mountain Rural Areas in the Southeast of Spain (Castilla-La Mancha)

Land ◽

10.3390/land10020221 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 221 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Francisco Cebrián Abellán ◽

Carmen García Martínez

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Local Development ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Raw Material ◽

Ageing Population ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Tertiary Sector ◽

Mountain Areas ◽

Leading Role ◽

La Mancha

The modernization of economic activities in mountain areas is conditioned by the physical characteristics of the territory, the weight of activities related to the primary sector, infrastructure deficits, low population density, as well as the declining and ageing population. The response to this situation has involved implementing a certain degree of functional diversification. One of the aspects that has assisted in the expansion of the tertiary sector is leisure and recreational activities. Rural tourism in European mid-mountain regions has emerged as a key element, supported by local development strategies and changing preferences in demand. In the tourism industry, the resources are the raw material, in which landscape plays a leading role. The aim of this prospective study is to evaluate the landscape as a heritage and a tourism resource, focusing on its capacity to reactivate depressed rural areas of inland Spain (mid-mountain areas in the southeast of the autonomous region of Castilla-La Mancha). The study is based on opinions provided by tourists and uses a directed survey as an analytical tool. The results highlight the key role of landscape, especially natural landscape, in the use of such areas for tourism. This, in turn, underlines the need for a greater focus on organizing how the landscape is utilized.

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Alternative tourism forms: the example of Drymia in Eastern Macedonia – Thrace District

Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal ◽

10.1108/meq-02-2015-0019 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 368-383 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Konstantina Lantitsou

Keyword(s):

National Parks ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Local Development ◽

Cultural Environment ◽

Public Agencies ◽

Mountain Areas ◽

Content Type ◽

Alternative Tourism ◽

Tourism Resources ◽

Local Body

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document the contribution of alternative forms of tourism in the eco-development of mountain areas with rich natural and cultural environment. Design/methodology/approach The paper follows two methods: first, bibliographical research and second, personal fieldwork and study which included interviews with the local body and citizens; collection of information from public agencies; research of the particular characteristics of the natural and cultural environment and registration of socioeconomic activities; visits in the villages, photographing of landscapes and traditional houses and data from the author’s participation in the research program “Possibilities of a self-reliant local development, respecting the environment“, which refers to the mountainous region of Xanthi Prefecture District and with the involvement of Greek and German scientists. Findings The utilization of the existing tourism resources of the region with ecological perception, combined with the excellent management of the two national parks, will contribute to eco-agritourism in the eco-development of the area. The ecological center in Drymia, with its completion and expansion to a European Ecological Centre, in direct connection with the national parks, will contribute significantly to the attraction of Greek and European researchers and eco-agritourists. Originality/value The scientific community has not thoroughly studied the region of Drymia, which presents unique ecological interest in Greece and Europe.

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Naturbanization and local development in the mountain areas of the Catalan Pyrenees

Naturbanization ◽

10.1201/9780203881149.ch4 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 75-92

Author(s):

A Tulla

Keyword(s):

Local Development ◽

Mountain Areas

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Naturbanization and local development in the mountain areas of the Catalan Pyrenees

Naturbanization ◽

10.1201/9780203881149-10 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 83-100

Keyword(s):

Local Development ◽

Mountain Areas

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Innovation, Spatial Loyalty, and ICTs as Locational Determinants of Rural Development in the Catalan Pyrenees

European Countryside ◽

10.2478/euco-2019-0029 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 517-540

Author(s):

Ana Vera Martin ◽

Antoni F. Tulla

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Local Development ◽

A Priori ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Added Value ◽

Skilled Workers ◽

Mountain Areas ◽

Productive Process ◽

Information And Communication

Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICTs) open up new possibilities for development in rural and mountain areas. ICTs are analysed as a factor attracting business and enabling a dispersion of economic activity that is usually concentrated in metropolitan areas. Rural and mountain areas have benefited from the increasing incorporation of ICT in companies because development strategies are now made viable, thus bringing local territories into global markets and vice versa. Competitiveness and the added value of local development companies are incorporated into the product through the value given to local identity factors. Other competitive localisation factors of these zones are lower localisation costs and spatial loyalty among companies in the cluster. On the other hand, there may be an a priori shortage of available skilled workers in these particular areas but this deficit could be balanced out by the small size of companies established in these zones. This paper describes several case studies of specific companies in the Catalan Pyrenees where parts of the productive process with the highest added value—like design, organisation, etc—are carried out, while manufacturing occurs in other countries. It also analyses activities and services offered by smart farms and in smart rural areas. ICTs are important for the educational and informative levels of the population and also for the establishment of new companies and services in rural and mountain areas.

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