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Biocultural Diversity in Italy

2023; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 51; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s10745-023-00455-4

1572-9915

Vazrick Nazari, Sofia Belardinelli, Andréa Pieroni, Riccardo Motti, Alessandro Chiarucci, Giovanni Destro‐Bisol, Giorgio Vacchiano, Eugenio Bortolini, Massimo Mezzavilla, Luigi Garaffa, D Pievani,

Culinary Culture and Tourism

Abstract As an initial step in more extensive research into the links between biological and cultural diversity in present-day Italy, we reviewed Biocultural Diversity studies that explore the relationship between biological and cultural patterns of diversity to determine whether any direct causal relationships or common drivers could be inferred. We found no significant attempts to quantitatively measure biocultural diversity in the country as a whole. Italy shows a high number of mutual interactions, but common drivers and patterns between biological and cultural diversity were not evident. This could be either a problem of quantification due perhaps to an inherent incommensurability between the two dimensions, or different causative patterns that drive biological and cultural diversity.