Policies for governance have become a key question within the sustainability paradigm. Researchers can play an important role in supporting the action of policymakers and responsible agencies involved in managing the sustainability of fragile venues, such as protected areas when pressed for tourism purposes. The Asinara National Park shows the peculiarity to be located in a small and non-inhabited island, close to the big Italian Island of Sardinia. The specific site is a very interesting case study for rethinking the importance of the so called collaborative governance, in comparison to the traditional top-down policy usually adopted in protected areas. The case study well illustrates opportunities and difficulties that the managing agency has to face and, in the same time, cannot avoid, if it will successfully run a governance of sustainability which can be eventually also the motor of the economy of the surrounding neighborhoods. The authors present a possible future local stakeholder partnerships based on structured governance. The findings are in line with the literature debate on how the local governance can be used to support sustainable tourism

Three Northern Italian regions, Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont and Liguria, have specific identities though united by deep geographical and historical common traits. They are traditional wine-growing regions, producing several renowned wines, often in difficult areas. The 'heroic' viticulture, vineyard sites at altitudes over 500 meters (1,600 feet), vines planted on slopes greater than 30% on terraces or embankments, is a cultural element of the wine-growing system in all the three regions, each having a share of mountain and slope areas. Liguria and Valle d'Aosta are much smaller regions than Piedmont; they have a big share of mountain area of the total regional surface. The paper aims describing the diversity of wine landscapes in the three regions, all of them having a large mountain and slope area within the respective total geographical surface. Data have been collected following the Grounded theory, i.e. retrieving data from very diverse sources, including direct observations. Results are that the reality of the heroic viticulture is a fundamental part of the local wine-making in Valle d'Aosta and Liguria.

Not only is there empirical evidence of the nexus between forests and human life, but it is also the subject of multidisciplinary studies involving professionals from many different disciplines: foresters, architects, sociologists, urban planners, rural policymakers and even psychologists. If the human population continues to grow, the world’s forests will exist only in the framework of societal needs. The world’s forests play a multifaceted and fundamental role both in urban and rural areas, in productive and environmental realms. Thus, global attention is required for devising effective for- estry policy, even if it appears utopian. Humans can cultivate the entire planet, but in the long term should support an intrinsic millennial perspective for nature and biology, in relation to both cultivated (urban and rural) and uncultivated lands. Ultimately, the globe is a small and fragile “garden” and sus- tainable development will be possible by embracing the “technocentric” vision of sustainability. The main forest product worldwide is still roundwood, which provides revenue for landowners and workers. However, the non-market benefits provided by forests are fundamental in both the country and the city, and could alleviate the dire environmental conditions in urban areas, where the majority of the world’s people are already living. A global governance of sustainability can support the world’s forests, and all natural resources, only by taking into account human numbers

The Book Series Cooperative Management provides an invaluable forum for creative and scholarly work on cooperative management, policy, economics, organizational, financial and marketing aspects of cooperative communities throughout the Mediterranean region and worldwide. The main objectives of this series are to advance knowledge related to collective management processes and cooperative entrepreneurship as well as to generate theoretical knowledge with the aim of promoting research within various sectors wherein market communities operate (agriculture, banking, real estate, insurance and other forms). Scholarly papers appearing in this series should relate to one of these areas, should have a theoretical and/or empirical problem orientation and should demonstrate innovation in theoretical and empirical analyses, methodologies and applications. Analyses of market communities' problems and phenomena pertinent to managerial research, extension and teaching (e.g., case studies) regarding cooperative entrepreneurship are equally encouraged. Further, this series encourages interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research from a broad spectrum of business economics disciplines.With the increasing globalization and liberalization of commodity markets, it becomes more and more important to account for various factors that influence and shape the economic, market, institutional and thus policy conditions. A crucial issue is to develop robust methods, analytical methodologies, techniques and methods for analysing the information regarding the behaviour of various stakeholders (e.g. consumers, producers, managers, policy-makers) that operate in cooperative management networks and market communities engaged in the primary sector. Therefore, this very first issue of the book in the series of cooperative management focuses exclusively on the utilization of micro-and macro-level agricultural data to the development of new coherent, reliable and comprehensive modelling tools for conducting policy analysis of the rapidly changing agricultural and environmental conditions and complex decision problems of various stakeholders.Among these changing conditions, one can mention the drastically increased price volatility of farm outputs, macroeconomic instability, climate change and the new post-2013 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the European Union (EU). Throughout this unstable period, the impact of these changes on various stakeholders' income, profitability, efficient (sustainable) management of resources and v vi Preface

Questo lavoro cerca di confermare l’ipotesi che, in Italia, la televisione di stato abbia avuto anche il ruolo di formare flip agricoltori, almeno fino alla fine degli anni ’60 del secolo scorso. A questo scopo, sono stati raccolti dati presso le Teche Rai di Firenze per compararli con l’evoluzione della politica agraria. Il risultato della ricerca conferma che il partito della Democrazia Cristiana ha usato anche le trasmissioni televisive per sostenere il programma di trasformazione della classe lavoratrice in imprenditori e non semplici proprietari terrieri, dopo l’avvio delle Riforma agraria. Questo sostegno alla formazione agricola tramite la TV ebbe fine agli inizi degli anni ’70, quando la situazione sociale ed economica italiana era completamente mutata e la politica agricola europea terminava il periodo transitorio. Dopo il 1970, la televisione italiana dedicata all’agricoltura ha mutato la sua missione, smettendo quella della formazione professionale agricola per rivolgersi alla platea degli spettatori generalisti, mostrando i problemi produttivi e ambientali del settore nell’applicazione delle politiche di intervento pubblico, nazionale ed europeo.La TV degli agricoltori, riforma agraria, riforma Pac, caso studio, Rai