Territorial regeneration can be an opportunity for enhancing mountain landscape in the Anthropocene – a geological era characterized by humans as actors – especially in Lombard valleys, hit by the double pandemic and environmental crisis.
These mountain territories can be regenerated through a community-based approach for the restoration of brownfields, previous industrial areas abandoned because of economic recession becoming now starting points for new territorial green functions. These regenerating green interventions can be planned by local Institutions, with the support of the University, in a communitarian perspective to imply both residents and tourists, to strengthen pro-environmental behaviors and to concern everyday life (sanitary, educational or mobility services) together with leisure needs (cultural, social or sport activities). In this way, mountain valleys can become challenging places for planning soil restitution to inhabitants (residents, tourists, workers, commuters…), creating new job opportunities and thinking of mountain tourism as an integrated green activity with other territorial functions and productive knowledges, for a new way of living.
This approach can be applied to Lombard valleys that are interested by environmental crisis and were particularly hit by pandemic in 2020: Seriana Valley, the most known in the province of Bergamo, is an interesting case study as it hosts many brownfields, preserves traditional productive activities and, after pandemic, has many touristic places to be enhanced in a green perspective. Here a community-based approach for brownfields restoration (such as ex-Italcementi cement factory in Alzano Lombardo, or Honegger-Spoerry cotton industry in Albino, or Festi Rasini manufacture in Villa d’Ogna), supported by local Institutions and the University, can imply residents and tourists to co-plan a new way of living becoming experimental labs for a new tourism governance.
Mots clés : Territorial regeneration|mountain tourism|community governance|brownfields restoration|Seriana valley
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