CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE 8-11 June, 2006, Florence, Italy CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE 8-11 June, 2006, Florence, Italy Volume 2. International Conference on Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: the role of traditional knowledge, held on 8-11 June, 2006 in Florence, Italy Organized by: IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge IUFRO Research Group on Forest and Woodland History Ministero Per le Politiche Alimentari, Agricole e Forestali – Roma Collaborating institutions USDA – Forest Service Italian Academy of Forestry Science Italian Forest State Corp University of Florence City of Florence Regional Government of Tuscany UNESCO World Heritage Centre FAO MCPFE Liaison Unit Warsaw Edited by: John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti & Elisabeth Johann Published by: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe Liaison Unit Warsaw ul. Bitwy Warszawskiej 1920 r. nr 3 00-973 Warsaw, Poland tel.: +48 22 331 70 31 tel./fax.: +48 22 331 70 32 e-mail: [email protected] www.mcpfe.org Disclaimer This publication comprises the presentations and outcome of the international conference Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: the role of traditional knowledge, held on 8-11 June, 2006 in Florence, Italy. They refl ect the views of the authors which do not necessarily correspond to those of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE). Neither the authors ,editors, the MCPFE, nor any person acting on their behalf are responsible for the use which might be made of the information contained in this publication. Design, layout and production: [email protected] © Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, 2006 VOLUME 2. ISBN 10 83-922396-4-4 ISBN 13 978-83-922396-4-2 CONTENTS VOLUME 1. PREFACE MCPFE Liaison Unit Warsaw 9 FOREWORD Pekka Patosaari 11 INTRODUCTION Mauro Agnoletti 13 KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS Traditional knowledge and the European Common Agricultural Policy (PAC): the case of the Italian National Rural Development Plan 2007-2013 Mauro Agnoletti 19 The European Landscape Convention Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons 28 Traditional Knowledge World Bank for safeguarding ecosystems Pietro Laureano 40 Bridging the gap: the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge John A. Parrotta 41 THEME 1: HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL FOREST KNOWLEDGE AND FOREST MANAGEMENT Documentary sources for forest history and wood transportation in Veneto (15th-19th century) Giovanni Caniato 49 Traditional forest management under the infl uence of science and industry: the story of the alpine cultural landscapes Elisabeth Johann 50 La scomparsa dell’utilizzazione dell’erica: un esempio di cancellazione di un paesaggio culturale e dei suoi valori naturalistici [The cessation of utilization of Erica arborea: an example of cancellation of a cultural landscape and its naturalistic values] Tommaso La Mantia, Giuseppe Giaimi, Veca D.S. La Mela, Alberto Tomeo 58 Relationships between local communities and forest administration: The Cadore region after the napoleonic laws Antonio Lazzarini 67 Forest science and local experience in the management of the woodland: The case of Extremadura’s dehesa Antonio M. Linares 71 History and refi nement of TFK: an Asian perspective P.S. Ramakrishnan 80 Selection forestry between tradition and innovation: fi ve centuries of practice in France Xavier Rochel 87 Woodland management in Bronze Age Scandinavia – evidences from rock-art sites Peter Skoglund 93 Indigenous infl uence on forest management on Indian reservations in the United States Ronald L. Trosper 94 Koguryo civilisation sustained by forest culture in the northern Korean peninsular and Manchuria Cheong-Ho Yi 102 THEME 2: CONFLICTS BETWEEN TRADITIONAL FOREST KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENTIFIC FORESTRY The uses of forests and woodlands in New Spain from 16th to 18th centuries María de la Luz Ayala 111 Current status and problems with traditional forest-related knowledge in Russia Vladimir Bocharnikov & Andrey Laletin 116 Confl icts between traditional knowledge and offi cial applications on sustainable forest management: a case from Turkey Emre Şahin Dölarslan & Kenan Ok 122 It all began with Adam. The historical roots of the confl icts between conventional resource management and traditional local communities Jesús García Latorre & Juan García Latorre 131 Evolution of the forest landscapes and tribal practices, a case study of forest management and its impacts in southern India Sylvie Guillerme 137 Richerche sperimentali per una gestione sostenibile dei cedui di leccio: opzioni colurali a confronto Orazio La Marca 138 Cultural forest landscapes and ecological imperialism Colin Price 147 The “confl ict” between traditional forest knowledge and scientifi c forest management in twentieth-century Finland Harri Siiskonen 155 Problems with the practical implementation of laws regarding the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples in Russia Ludmila Zhirina 165 279 CONTENTS THEME 3: CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES Biocultural heritage – the missing link between culture and nature? Mårten Aronsson 169 Studying land use history to support ecosystem management – a case study on forest change in the Swiss Alps Matthias Bürgi & Urs Gimmi 171 I principali sistemi di uccellagione con le reti fi sse: storia, tecnica e paesaggio Paolo Casanova, Anna Memoli & Lorenzo Pini 172 The role of pine forests for shaping Korean traditional cultural landscape Young Woo Chun & Kwang Il Tak 179 Restoration of selected beech coppices Matteo Coppini & Luigi Hermanin 185 Getting to living cultural landscapes of the boreal forest through holistic forest management. The Whitefeather Forest Initiative of Pikangikum First Nation, Northwest Ontario Iain Davidson-Hunt 195 Meeting the challenges of preserving cultural character in a dynamic forest park landscape Rolf Diamant, Nora J. Mitchell, Christina Marts & Ben Machin 197 The forest landscape of transhumance in Molise, Italy P. Di Martino, P. Di Marzio, C. Giancola & M. Ottaviano 198 Scottish upland forests: History lessons for the future Kate Holl & Mike Smith 208 Working landscapes or recreational showcases – sustainable forest management and the implications of cultural knowledge loss Ian D. Rotherham 211 European landscapes and forests as representations of culture Franz Schmithuesen & Klaus Seeland 219 THEME 4: EUROPEAN INITIATIVES FOR TRADITIONAL FOREST KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES Frammenti di storia forestale da ForEnCarb, progetto pilota della Regione Sardegna per la sostenibilità dello sviluppo e la pianifi cazione forestale. Marisa Cadoni & Roberto Scotti 229 The conservation of cultural forest landscapes: the Vallombrosa Silvomuseum Orazio Ciancio & Susanna Nocentini 239 MCPFE commitments – political framework for social and cultural dimension of SFM Marta Gaworska & Bozena Kornatowska 245 “Forest + Culture” in Austria: basic principles, objectives and ongoing projects Alfred Grieshofer 252 Linking scientists with people – the role of the volunteer in British woodlands Peter Howard 257 Hidden heritage in Dutch forests: management in practice Patrick Jansen 258 Cultural re-animation and rural development forestry: examples of a Leader + cooperation project between rural communities in Italy and ScotlandGary Servant, Nicola Gallinar & Jake Willis 262 Forest landscape cultural heritage inventory: an Estonian model Lembitu Tarang, Jürgen Kusmin, Vaike Pommer, Airi Matila & Mart Külvik 270 VOLUME 2. THEME 5: FOREST HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE CHANGES Consequences of the cessation of traditional forest exploitation: the example of the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park Gianpiero Andreatta 285 Techniche e attrezza per la valorizzazione del bene forestale attraverso modelli de allevamento semibrado di suini – Techniques and equipments for the improvement of forest resources through extensive pigs breeding systems Matteo Barbari, Leonardo Conti & Francesco Sorbetti Guerri 292 Recent changes in the landscape spatial pattern of forest lands in Italy: a local assessment Anna Barbati, Geppino Carnevale, Piermaria Corona & Marco Marchetti 302 Two pines and the native tradition of burning North American landscapes Gary B. Blank 303 La memoria e l’attualità del paesaggio Ignazio Camarda 309 Mediterranean forest management, a tool to guarantee sustainability: evolution of the Catalan agrarian landscape and the forestry regulations from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century Teresa Cervera Zaragoza & Ramon Garrabou 310 Landscape history and heritage revaluation in Olzinelles valley (Montnegre, NE Spain): a socioecological approach (1851-2006) Iago Otero, Martí Boada, Anna Badia, Sara Piqueras, Geòrgia Rodoreda & Eduard Rojas 316 280 CONTENTS Landscape dynamics of the Barbialla farm (Val d’Egola, Province of Florence) in the second half of the 20th century Marco Paci, Livio Bianchi & Davide Travaglini 326 Variazioni della copertura vegetale, documentazione storica e toponomastica nel Lazio appenninico Francesco Spada & Susanna Passigli 333 From integration to abandonment. Forest management in the Mediterranean agro-ecosystems before and after the ‘green revolution’ (The Vallès County, Catalonia, Spain, 1860-1999) Enric Tello, Ramon Garrabou, José Ramon Olarieta & Xavier Cussó 343 THEME 6: TRADITIONS, CULTURE AND LANDSCAPE IN SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT Sustainable forest management in Europe’s East and West: