Managing the eco-social transition: communities in action to build possible futures

Abstract

The pandemic, with its environmental and socio-economic crises, has highlighted the urgency of structural responses. Overcoming this polycrisis requires the reactivation of a community and identity dimension of places. Cultural institutions can play an important role in this process. This paper proposes a focus on the role of ecomuseums in the creation of resilient communities, able to renew themselves to respond to crises. The ecomuseum movement is strongly committed to the eco-social transition of communities and territories and offers good practices for the management of common goods, methods and tools for the recognition of local identities, joint decision-making, co-planning, the care of living cultural heritage, the integral development of the landscape and the monitoring of impacts.

An Environmental Participatory Governance (EPG) Model for the Ecological Transition: The Case of the Basilicata Region

“…There is, in fact, a need to build trustful interactions which empower people and value their identities. This makes possible the connection of innovative energies already acting on the territory, stimulating them to build together shared scenarios of the future starting from the cultural change of local populations [19].…”