Montagna e comunità: nuovi paradigmi per il dibattito geografico e le politiche di rigenerazione

Mountain and Community: New Approaches for Geographical Research and Regeneration Policies Mountain research has been a distinctive subject in Italian geographical studies, encompassing both physical and human geography. These inquiries have frequently been intertwined with governmental issues and strategic national goals. In the last decades of the 20th century, mountain research was focused on addressing socio-environmental imbalances and was developed under a systemic, neo-positivist approach. This topic reached its peak with the implementation of the National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI), a regeneration policy promoted by the Italian government to address environmental changes and rethink the mountain regions. Our paper aims to provide a critical analysis on mountain research in Italian geography in order to address some issues underlying governmental policies in mountain regions and to deconstruct an established idea of community that is prevalent in geographical research and regeneration policies.