Paper short abstract:

The work examines the contents of three rounds of interviews conducted from year 2007 to year 2010 to groups of nomadic herders and sedentary farmers. The purpose is to identify if there are different perceptions and evaluations of landscape experienced by the respondents nomadic and sedentary groups.

Paper long abstract:

the work examines the contents of three rounds of interviews conducted from year 2007 to year 2010 to groups of nomadic herders and sedentary farmers using as well the photographic images as "not written texts " captured on those occasions. The purpose is to identify, through such evidences, whether there are different perceptions and evaluations of landscape experienced by the respondents nomadic and sedentary groups. Nomadic groups are represented in two different contexts: the steppes of Mongolia, where they are the majority of the population and the local economy is based almost entirely on nomadic pastoralism, and Alpine and Sub-Alpine areas where nomadic shepherds are today very few, residual units of a broader phenomenon of time gone by, forced to move continuously within a scenario strongly altered and increasingly difficult. The groups are as follows: 12 transhumant shepherds in the North-East of the Alps (year 2007), 6 nomadic pastoralists of the area North-West of Mongolia (year 2010) and 7 farmers of the Val di Cembra (Trentino-Italy, year 2009). The information and images collected are read and commented from different perspectives of perception of the landscape: scenario, resource, construction, degradation, interiority.