Sustainability toward recovery. Understanding the natural capital narrative

Abstract

The setting of the Ecological Economy has initiated new reflections on the issues of local development and has underlined the aspects of governance and relations promoted by local actors. The contribution, starting from the mitigation actions initiated in some glacial bodies of the Adamello-Presanella mountain range, reflects on the links between sustainability and recovery as they emerge from the discussions on ecosystem services and their enhancement. The reference framework for the theme of ecological transition and integration between economy and ecology is reconstructed by retracing the dynamics of global governance on the issues of sustainability and, in particular, biodiversity. The dynamics and concretization of all these aspects investigated at the local scale allows a reflection on the creation / appropriation of the value of natural capital and on local thinking about the meaning of sustainability.