ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses how the people living in Vinigo, a mountain village situated in the Belluno province of the Veneto Region, Italy. It examines ideas about changes in climate and environment through a choice of relevant passages of the collected and transcribed material. Phenomena related to climate and environmental changes affect the Dolomites in general; the perception of global warming is an experience shared by its inhabitants. Woodland around the village became private property; however, none of the inhabitants is able to remember when this reorganization of land management took place. Woodland seems to be the focus of a higher level of attention, even though the current characteristics of woodland contrasts with the characteristics of the cultivated environment. The spread of woodland also causes a loss of biodiversity. The relationship, a reciprocal one, which stands out as being the most salient is without any doubt that between the humans and the woodland.