La via del bosco
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The challenges imposed by the climate crisis and the return to abandoned rural areas restore to forests their role as a factor in social and economic development. Woods ensure eco-systemic services necessary as much for the environment as for a society engaged in addressing the consequences of global warming. For this to happen professional technicians need to carry out monitoring and planning work, managing the ever-changing relations between humans and forests. This film explains in four chapters how the health of woods and that of communities are closely linked.
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About the Movie La via del bosco
The documentary La via del bosco, produced by the Piedmont Regional Authority and BabyDoc Film, uses the stories of three forestry technicians to explain the socio-anthropological implications of wood management and the critical aspects of an environment which, after a long phase of depopulation and abandonment, is enjoying a progressive rebirth. An ancient pact exists between human beings and forests that needs to be consolidated in the face of the challenges of climate change and global warming. Humanity has lived in symbiosis with woods and their laws for thousands of years, building economies, traditions and cultures around their resources and, above all, understanding the importance of mutuality between the slow, silent work of the trees and that of communities and people.
Forests supply a multiplicity of eco-systemic services: from a landscape that regenerates psycho-physical equilibrium and fuels tourism to timber, which valorizes local economies and short supply chains, from the containment of landslides, avalanches and mudslides to CO2 storage. But all this requires human maintenance: only forest planning can keep woods and the communities that live around them healthy. The valorization of local resources is one of the cornerstones for returning woods to their central role.
Working to valorize a local professional wood-related supply chain means, above all, avoiding pointless pollutant transport; why import woodchips from Canada when they can be produced in situ? A zerokilometer supply chain is taking on not inconsiderable importance, especially at a problematic moment in history like the present. (Davide Mazzocco)
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