L’Olivo nel paesaggio agrario toscano – The olive tree in the Tuscan agricultural landscape

by Lorenzo Vallerini (with an essay on the bioagronomic aspects by Giuseppe Fontanazza and introduction by Guido Ferrara)

Ponte alle Grazie Editore, Florence, Italy

©1991

Italian text

191 pp., ill.in b/n  and color n.t. e f.t, cm 22 x 29, € 50,00/60,00 (Lire 120.000)

Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale OPAC SBN:  Codice Identificativo IT\ICCU\UFI\0079670

Classificazione DEWEY 634.6309455 (20.) OLIVO. Toscana

The agricultural landscape, however much it may be seen to a wide scale, has the identity of a garden: for this reason to preserve it, not only has to be cultivated, but it is necessary to  consider a broader connotation, including both historical-cultural and aesthetic aspects. Cultivate the landscape to maintain it and therefore, when necessary, to change it, even if every attempt aimed at reasonable awareness of this same change seems appropriate.

In light of this theme, the book tries to outline the path to protect high-value agricultural landscapes in the hilly areas of the regions of central Italy, as evidence of a perfect balance between “useful and beautiful”. At the same time, to allow the development of new olive cultivation techniques that also require strong mechanization for the production of high quantity and quality of the “oil” product.

The book, in an integrated approach between landscape, environment, technique and economy, addresses the issue in its aspects of historical development and tries to define some methodological criteria for a localization of the olive historicized areas to be protected and those to be transformed in a productive sense as new hilly agricultural landscapes of our century.