Common Land Institutions, Resources, and the Transmission of Local Knowledge: A Case Study in the Veneto Region

Common land institutions (CLIs) and the communities that manage them are custodians of traditional practices and knowledge that represent an impor- tant heritage of ecological knowledge, strongly adapted to the local territory be- cause they have developed over centuries. The application of these sustainable management practices has allowed the conservation of extensive areas of forests and natural environments, which today provide ecosystem services to the en- tire community. The rapid demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic changes that mountain territories are experiencing today put at risk the conservation of this local knowledge and its transmission across generations. However, literature highlights several research gaps on traditional and local ecological knowledge, including practices, transmission.