Each wine has its own natural and cultural landscape. The present landscape is the result of the interaction of many natural and cultural components. Some Italian areas show an alternance between special natural land features and characteristic cultural arrangements; for example, many vineyards represent a a specific use of specific portions of land and, as such, may be considered to be a very important kind of geomorphologic heritage. These areas require special management aimed at safeguarding both the natural and cultural aspects of the landscape and implementing well-balanced programs for local development that promote the typical production of the wine and its special link with the landscape. A very useful tool for such territorial planning and management is the "Carta della Natura", a project (Italian Law 394/91) that studies Italian territory following a holistic and multi-scale approach (1:250,000: Landscape Units; 1:50,000 Habitats; 1:10,000: Ecotopes) in order to obtain complete knowledge of the territory and evaluate the state of the environment. By integrating many different types of information, it is possible to analyze the link between vineyard cultivation and landscape within the framework of geomorphological settings. Moreover, it is possible to recognize and identify a number of distinctive landscapes for submission as a protected geoheritage.Shape is synthesis. Following an Aristotelian approach in studying nature, we can read the land features as the expression of the endogenous and exogenous processes that mould the surfaces of the Earth. Human activities additionally make a further, often dramatic, impression on the territory, sometimes guided and inspired by the land forms, very often against them. Therefore, landscape is everywhere, but needs to be understood and recognized as a heritage; at the same time, it needs to be protected in order to become a resource. The quality of landscape impinges on individual and social well-being; moreover, as finally embedded in the European Landscape Convention (Council of Europe 2000) "Landscape is everywhere and is an essential element of quality of life and cooperates in the development of local cultures." The key role of the landscape is in its perceptive and symbolic power: it's what mankind interacts with, its first contact with the environment, and the source of resources, risk, and emotions.The concept of heritage (patrimonio in the Italian language, from the latin pater = father and munus = duty, but also property) implies a link, based on right and duty, between the individual and a number of values: mankind owns a heritage, at the same time has the duty to protect and manage it. The first step is knowledge and awareness:
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