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: 1 THE DRY -STONE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPE
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE DRY-STONE LANDSCAPE
Pantel/eria (Italy), Mal/orca
(Spain) and Naxos (Greece) are
three Mediterranean islands where
the use of the dry-stone had such
an extension, to define most of their
landscape, giving origin to a great
complexity of typologies; these
islands have undertaken a shared
path towards the safeguard of the
dry-stone landscape.
The three islands are characterised
by common aspects, as the
Mediterranean culture, the traditional
economy based on the agricultural
activity, the current development
of the mass tourism with the consequent
abandonment of the cultivated
areas; however, they have also substantial
differences, as the nature of
the soil and of the stones, the hydrography,
the social and economic
aspects, etc.
The European project Medstone
has been set up through the
cooperation of three bodies (Leader
Ulixes in Pantel/eria, Fodesma
in Mal/orca and Ariadne in Naxos)
and functions by means of a structure,
the Mediterranean Centre of
Pantel/eria, linked to the Regional
Antennae of Mal/orca and Naxos.
The project, co-financed by the
D.G. REG/O of the European Commission
within the programme
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for the development of actions finalised
at the safeguard and sustainable
use of the dry-stone landscape
of the Mediterranean minor islands;
in particular, Medstone realises in
each of the three islands specific
interventions, as the "local pilot
projects"1 and the activities in $UPport
of the local entrepreneuria/ship,
directly or indirectly linked to
the dry-stone use2; such interventions
constitute also occasions for
a continuous interchange of information,
know-how and experiences
at interregional level.
The experience carried out
within the project Medstone has
conducted the Partners to develop
an interregional cooperation programme
finalised at creating a permanent
net linking the minor
islands, this is the association
Medisla, that has the objective of
widening, at a larger scale, these
kind of initiatives.
Medisla operates for the expansion
of the partnership which,
through the integration of different
competencies and of the public
and private sectors, can promote
actions aimed at the development
of the local potential of the traditional
rural landscapes characterised
by the economic marginality.
Medisla puts in communication -
the various sectors already engaged
in the sustainable development
of the rural landscape,
strengthening the action of the
Partners within their territory, finding
common opportunities for new
operative projects and "transferring"
the different know-how. The
aim of Medisla is to become a useful
and operative instrument for the
Mediterranean islands, able to represent
towards the European Union
the various interests of each territory.