The paper deals with the issue of responsible and sustainable tourism starting from a series Italian (and only partially French) cases ecomuseums pastoralism transhumance as potential drivers for development territorial regeneration, well promotion experiential low environmental impact, capable triggering participatory processes inclusion social innovation. Through analysis two regions (Piedmon...

In Turkey, according to Pasture Law, land allocated for farmers spend the summer with their animals, graze animals and benefit from grass is defined as “summer pasture (yaylak in Turkish).” Summer of national importance its biodiversity, landscape, cultural heritage transhumance. However, especially after 1990s, areas have been extensively used tourism activities Turkey. By changing use, increa...

For centuries, the world’s tropical regions have been poorer than temperate-zone countries. Does tropicality make struggle for economic development harder? What do people caught up in do? The paper defines ‘tropicality’ as combination of aridity and seasonal rainfall, turn, high inter- intra-year variability moisture influx. In past, this condition would generate a variety adaptive strategies s...

Since their domestication, dogs have adapted to a diverse portfolio of roles within human societies, and changes in dog size, shape, behavior are often key indicators these changes. Among pastoral agropastoral societies almost ubiquitous as livestock guardians herding aids. Archaeological data demonstrate that incoming Neolithic farmers brought with them own morphologically distinct when they s...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, mobility through transhumance is a much-valued strategy of pastoralists for dealing with rainfall variability (see Swallow 1994; van den Brink, Bromley, and Chavas 1995; Ellis and Swift 1988). Transhumance is generally practiced in the arid to semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, an environment characterized by low mean rainfall and high rainfall variability. Higher r...