Mountain Identity and Development Aspirations

This article refers to management issues of mountainous areas, with emphasis on the built environment, highlighting "identity" as a key element for development perspectives and aspirations. Mountain areas are addressed as a system, the identity of which has to be recognized, in terms of protection, promotion, and integrated development. The concept of identity is explored through its reference to the elements that constitute mountain settlements, as well as the conditions of its recognition, protection, and promotion. Further, through the idea of the deliberate “construction” of place-identity and its correlation to the development process, mountain settlements are discussed. References are be made to key concepts related to the issues, such as tradition, tangible and intangible, and the cultural and economic importance of its preservation, considering culture as a key pillar for integrated development. In this context, key issues concerning development aspirations include the component elements of the cultural character and identity of mountainous settlements, its problems, the changes, and the dangers that may threaten them, the relationship between its integrated protection and sustainable development, as well as the problems and strategies of creating and implementing a management plan that ensures its preservation, protection, and invigoration. The article is founded on the research that took place within the framework of the postgraduate program, “Environment and Development of Mountains Regions”, annually held at the Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Center (MIRC) in the Hellenic Mountain Area of Metsovo, Greece.

本文聚焦山地地区的管理议题，重点关注建成环境，并将“身份认同”作为山地发展愿景与发展诉求的核心要素。山地地区作为一个系统存在，其身份认同需在保护、传承弘扬与融合发展的框架下得到认可与彰显。本文通过剖析山地聚居区的构成要素，以及身份认同的认可、保护与传承弘扬的实现条件，对身份认同这一概念展开探讨。此外，本文还依托“场所身份认同的主动构建”这一理念及其与发展进程的关联，对山地聚居区进行深入论述。本文将提及与该议题相关的核心概念，包括有形与无形的传统遗产，以及保护此类遗产的文化价值与经济价值，并将文化视为融合发展的核心支柱。在此语境下，与发展诉求相关的核心议题包括：山地聚居区的文化特质与身份认同的构成要素、现存问题、可能威胁其存续的变迁与风险、融合保护与可持续发展之间的关联，以及制定并落实可保障其留存、保护与振兴的管理方案所面临的问题与策略。本文基于希腊梅措沃山地地区的梅措沃跨学科研究中心（Metsovion Interdisciplinary Research Center，MIRC）每年开设的研究生课程“山地地区环境与发展”框架下开展的研究成果撰写而成。