9. An Integrated Management System and Governance for a Productive UNESCO Cultural Landscape

This chapter focuses on the necessity to adopt resilience as an approach for an integrated management system to continuously align the dynamic concepts of context, planning, inputs, processes, outputs, and outcomes to the preservation of the Outstanding Universal Values that characterize a cultural landscape. The concepts of diversity, redundancy, network connectivity, modularity, and adaptability found in literature have been selected as central elements for an effective resilience discourse. They have been detailed by 24 actions and 32 sub-actions to help decision-making to preserve and enhance cultural landscapes. Lastly, the research reveals solid ties between identity and resilience. Site-based and place-related heritage, people- and community-centred approaches, living heritage, community-led changes, sense of place, and adaptation are crucial to achieving landscape resilience. In brief, this study provides for building landscape resilience as an approach for reinforcing territorial inputs and processes and fostering innovation. It manages attributes and values by planning work courses that include short- to long-term actions. Some hints for the management of ordinary rural and peri-urban landscapes have been also proposed, gathering suggestions from the debate on the UNESCO cultural landscapes discussed in this research.