Forme e modalità di gestione collettiva della terra. Usi civici e proprietà collettive: un itinerario storico-giuridico

This work consists of two parts, which are linked. The first section is dedicated to the main regulatory interventions undertaken, starting from the 17th and 18th centuries, against those multiform communal experiences of land management (known as ‘usi civici’ and commons) typical of the Italian rural landscape at least since the Middle Ages. Jusnaturalism and the Enlightenment placed themselves against such realities, adopting an orientation that would be made their own by modern civil codifications, aimed at definitively consecrating the modern paradigm of individual property. In the second part, taking the Statute of Costa Volpino as an example, the study then attempts to highlight some significant provisions adopted by rural communities in order to guarantee a communal and sustainable management of natural resources, with a view to assessing, at the outcome of a broader investigation, the reproposability (if notthe solutions identified) of an approach aimed at greater sustainability of the man-territory relationship.