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the equilibrium of the mountain economy in the apennines
Picture 7.1: Example of Castelli pottery
4. The resilience
Our long-term view allows us to grasp another characteristic of the mou-
ntain economy besides the integration of economic activities, namely resi-
lience, that is to say the economic system’s ability to adapt and change to
preserve livelihoods, to cope with the crises and to raise the threshold of
its vulnerability (Hallegatte 2014). Daniel Curtis has underlined the equi-
table distribution of property and the well-balanced distribution of power
between social groups as resilience’s main indicators (Curtis 2014). In our
case-study, two aspects can be observed, the first of which relates to versa-
tility and flexibility in production. Supplementary activities were practi-
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Picture 7.1: Example of Castelli pottery
4. The resilience
Our long-term view allows us to grasp another characteristic of the mou-
ntain economy besides the integration of economic activities, namely resi-
lience, that is to say the economic system’s ability to adapt and change to
preserve livelihoods, to cope with the crises and to raise the threshold of
its vulnerability (Hallegatte 2014). Daniel Curtis has underlined the equi-
table distribution of property and the well-balanced distribution of power
between social groups as resilience’s main indicators (Curtis 2014). In our
case-study, two aspects can be observed, the first of which relates to versa-
tility and flexibility in production. Supplementary activities were practi-
175
