Cultural Heritage, Local Resources and Sustainable Tourism: Towards an Operational Framework for Policy and Planning

The peculiar distinction between ‘economics’ as a science and ‘economy’ as a frugal virtue must not obliterate the etymological link between economics and a careful use of resources. In this particular sense, the tools developed by economics as a science may be said to address a vast array of human activities, inasmuch as they are characterised as the satisfaction of needs covered by the use of resources.