Renovation and development of the «Fortress of Bard» monument complex by Giuseppe Cacozza

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Les métiers du fromage dans la peinture alpine à la fin du Moyen Âge : production et réception d’images du travail paysan by Marianne Cailloux

“…These images picture a form of specialisation from the artists with a precise knowledge of professional techniques and a shared alpine culture with their commissioners. Through legend or sanctification, the depictions illustrate finally an appreciation of the worker and their tasks, reaching a socio-political dimension and defining a certain idea of what work was supposed to be at that time.…”
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Conceptualising ‘Cultural Landscape Commons’: Retracing Ecological Thinking from the Swiss Alpine Landscape to Social-Ecological Systems by Nicole de Lalouvière

“…This paper retraces the fundaments of the ‘nature-culture’ divide within the study of Swiss alpine ‘cultural landscape commons’, showing how this notion was shaped by early ecological thinking expressed through environmental determinism, dynamic systems, and cultural ecology. …”
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Two Close-to-Nature Lifestyles, One Benefit for the Cultural Landscape: Comparing Lifestyle Movers and Lifestyle Farmers in the Remote European Eastern Alps by Bernhard Grüner

“…By consciously maintaining the cultural landscape, both groups foster the preservation and development of local socioeconomic and cultural structures that are vital to surviving in the Alpine periphery—and thus key to the survival of the Alpine cultural landscape. Spatial and, even more so, social lifestyle mobility in mountain regions holds significant potential that is often neglected by demographic research and not clearly perceived by local policymakers.…”
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Neue Pioniere in ostalpinen Peripherräumen: die Wiederbelebung von Geisterdörfern und partiellen Wüstungen in Friaul by M. Beismann, P. Čede, E. Steinicke

“…Their activities increasingly enable the regeneration and maintenance of alpine cultural landscapes, resulting in new social and agrarian structures, which are emerging as „new farming“ in the study area. …”
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Exploring Panarchy in Alpine Grasslands: an Application of Adaptive Cycle Concepts to the Conservation of a Cultural Landscape by Ian D. Soane, Rocco Scolozzi, Alessandro Gretter, Klaus Hubacek

“…Notwithstanding the difficulties in defining and measuring quantitative state variables, we found that a panarchy model can offer a powerful metaphor with practical implications for the maintenance of such alpine cultural landscapes. In effect, our panarchy interpretation of interacting adaptive cycles provides new insights into the description of and the future options for land use in our case study area. …”
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