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Role of Local Action Groups in Improving the Sense of Belonging of Local Communities with Their Territories

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  • Maria Elena Menconi

    (Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences DSA3, University of Perugia, 06100 Perugia, Italy)

  • Sara Artemi

    (Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences DSA3, University of Perugia, 06100 Perugia, Italy)

  • Piero Borghi

    (Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences DSA3, University of Perugia, 06100 Perugia, Italy)

  • David Grohmann

    (Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences DSA3, University of Perugia, 06100 Perugia, Italy)

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The perception of the landscape by the population is one of the themes introduced by the European Landscape Convention. Perception is the key to the integration between human and territorial activities, and between economic development and sustainability. Local Action Groups (LAGs) are groups with territorial boundaries, established by the European Common Agricultural Policy for implementing local development strategies by awarding grants to local projects. The aim of this work is the development of a method for evaluating the ability of the LAGs to enhance the sense of belonging of the population with their territories. The developed method includes identification of those natural, agricultural, historical, and cultural resources for which people feel a sense of belonging, and evaluation of the same through a comprehensive multivariate statistical analysis. This paper reports the results of the statistical analysis of the rankings of local landscapes made by 330 residents of an Italian LAG on the basis of their sense of belonging with them. People showed that the community of the studied LAG does not recognize itself in the typical crops of the entire area, and the attachment to minor historical centres scattered in the territory remains the prerogative of the individual municipalities. The results of this method could be used as a performance indicator for a local plan, in respect to the creation of a shared perception of the local area.

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  • Maria Elena Menconi & Sara Artemi & Piero Borghi & David Grohmann, 2018. "Role of Local Action Groups in Improving the Sense of Belonging of Local Communities with Their Territories," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-19, December.
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