Landscape Economic Value for Territorial Scenarios of Change: An Application for the Unesco Site of Langhe, Roero and Monferrato

AbstractThe present paper focuses on the issues related to the economic value of landscape and the role of indicators and indices systems. The aim of the study is the definition of a synthetic index of Landscape Economic Value (LEV) through a system of economic indicators, to measure the attractiveness of Vineyard Landscape of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (IT), recently included in the UNESCO World Heritage List (2014). Furthermore, the synthetic index is employed in a dynamic transformation model that works in a cluster system of municipalities, where the Landscape Economic Value acts as an attractor factor generating people flows. The results obtained by the evaluation model might be an innovative proposal to define development territorial scenarios in decisional making-processes