Resumen de Beyond the sterility of the tourism ‘sector’
The complex of research results achieved so far by the so-called “territorialist school”clearly shows an extreme reduction in the dynamics of the production and reproductionof territories and landscapes via interaction between human communitiesand the environment. Moreover, the author’s research in the field of the ‘fragile areas’,particularly the mountains ones, reveals that the more the need of protection oflandscape is emphasized, the more some purely ‘contemplative’ (not reproductive)forms of tourism are identified as the only economic activity able to guarantee thatprotection. In other words, it seems paradoxally believed that in order to preservethe landscapes historically generated by the interaction between human beings andenvironment, it is necessary to interrupt that same mutual interaction. To face theabove trend towards ‘tourist sterility’, the research described here aims at contributingto the emergence of productive and sustainable uses of territorial resources, in whichthe tourist use component is fully integrated with other productive components andre-productive, and even better is able to generate effective chains of production andre-production of territories and landscapes. To pursue the aforementioned researchobjective, different cases/experiences are combined, to bring out from them theemerging potentialities of (re)triggering of interactions productive, and re-productive,of territory/landscape. From the results obtained through the comparison of theabove case studies, we can preliminarily conclude that what is mostly needed now isa profound rethinking of territory and landscape as commons, also in the light of theexperiences of collective properties and civic uses running through all of history ofco-evolutionary interactions between human beings and environment, that it seemsnowadays essential to update and to decline in retro-innovative forms of multifunctionaluse of land (tourist too), in order to foreshadow processes of reterritorialization reallyself-organized, and as such (re)productive of ‘living landscapes’.
