Sustainable Management and Promotion of Territory. Project Experiential Activities from Umbria (Italy)

As part of the guiding principles and initiatives geared to the objectives of Horizon 2020 is extremely important the issue relating to the maintenance and promotion of sustainable land, to a territorial organization designed to strengthen over time and space of the rural heritage and environmental impact of a given area. Based on these general principles, there are now some successful experiences that can be understood as "ideal" models and can be repeated in other contexts for the attainment of the objectives of sustainability and promotion. It's the case of some reality in Umbria where very satisfactory results have been identified under projects implemented by Department of agricultural Economics, farm Appraisal and Food Sciences (DSEEA) of University of Perugia. In this work, after careful reflection on current issues related to the general principles of sustainability and promotion of the area, and the motivation that inspire the pursuit of these objectives, several successful experiences that have been put in place in the region of 'Umbria are addressed. In the final part of the work, principles and guidelines are summarized and organized, with the aim of being able to be a substrate of good practices useful and repeatable over time in different territorial contexts.