Applying Resilience Thinking for the Cultural Landscape of the inner areas: new tools of knowledge and adaptive management

Cultural landscape in the inner areas has peculiarities that distinguish it from medium-large cities, for social, cultural, environmental, economic aspects. It is affected by extreme global (climate crisis, scarcity of resources, migration, weakening of social capital, etc.) and local risks (depopulation, uncontrolled exploitation of the territory, erosion of cultural capital and identity of places, degradation of the landscape, etc.). In recent years, new socio-economic and cultural dynamics concern inner areas. Despite of an increased exodus towards the cities, in fact, there is a spontaneous cultural process, carried out above all by "new inhabitants" and at the same time a growing attention by the European and national institutions towards these territories. The traditional tools for the knowledge, design and management of the territory are sectoral and lack an integrated and dynamic vision for dealing with the different challenges and changes of the inner areas. The approach of "resilience thinking" can represent an effective tool and a new frontier of knowledge. The research proposes a Resilience Laboratory aimed at a complex and dynamic knowledge, at the assessment of the settlement system's ability to respond to the global and local threats, at the design of support tools in the adaptive management, at the involvement and training of citizens and stakeholders in the care and control of the territory.