The Mediterranean Diet as Cultural Landscape Value: Proposing a Model towards the Inner Areas Development Process

This paper presents the overall concept and the first stage of a research project focused on the Mediterranean Diet as opportunity and a valuable tool for the sustainable development of the Inner Areas. The goal is to contribute to the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria planning and the methodology is based on the definition of a evaluative-oriented tool that allows the identification of the correct assets of knowledge and planning towards the cultural landscape valorization. The scope is to design and share a project of knowledge able to help in enhancing the contexts of local products, preserving the “tangible” elements bringing this “intangible” lifestyle named Mediterranean Diet, in order to produce specific effective impacts on territories and communities.