Valutare la resilienza dei paesaggi culturali: la questione dell'identità e della continuità

Cultural landscapes, and specifically the coastal landscapes, can be interpreted as complex systems, namely systems that through their capacity of self-organization, rise their identity and maintain it over the time. The identity landscape dimension is not otherwise identified by the recognition of their individual elements. This identity recognized (and auto-recognized by population and users) identifies the system with respect to the external environment and represent the component of the landscape that should be maintained recognizable over time. In a world dominated by uncertainty and often unpredictable change, landscape systems, and coastal landscapes specifically, are subjected to pressures that might affect just those identifying characteristics that are often determine the status of the same social well-being and local economy of communities. Resilience is the set of landscape system properties that guarantee the maintenance of its recognizability. The evaluation of the resilient properties of a landscape system (which can be summed up in the concepts of connectivity, redundancy, diversity, density, distribution) can be the basis on which build an assessment model that can monitor the limitations under which the recognition of the fundamental values of identity persists over time.