The transhumance system in the middle-south of Appenines has shaped over the centuries one of the most important historical and cultural landscape in Italy. Abandonment of traditional practices linked to seasonal movements of livestock threatened the conservation of the ancient landscape patterns. In particular, the web of drove roads of transhumance, called tratturi, representing in the past a wide connection between Abruzzian pastures and wood pastures and Apulian lowland pastures is now disappearing. This paper focuses on the main land cover changes along the tratturo Celano-Foggia over the last five decades in the Molise region. Some results obtained by temporal changes analysis are useful to evaluate conservation and management guidelines of transhumance drove roads in Molise region.
The forest landscape of transhumance in Molise, Italy
DI MARTINO, Paolo;DI MARZIO, Piera;
2006-01-01
Abstract
The transhumance system in the middle-south of Appenines has shaped over the centuries one of the most important historical and cultural landscape in Italy. Abandonment of traditional practices linked to seasonal movements of livestock threatened the conservation of the ancient landscape patterns. In particular, the web of drove roads of transhumance, called tratturi, representing in the past a wide connection between Abruzzian pastures and wood pastures and Apulian lowland pastures is now disappearing. This paper focuses on the main land cover changes along the tratturo Celano-Foggia over the last five decades in the Molise region. Some results obtained by temporal changes analysis are useful to evaluate conservation and management guidelines of transhumance drove roads in Molise region.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
