Abstract
In mountain territories with a high anthropogenic density, competition arises over the different uses of common natural resources (soil, water, forests, etc.). Consequently, they become increasingly vulnerable to private appropriation processes that decrease their meaning as common resources and their social potential (Debarbieux & Price, 2016). On the other side, in depopulated areas, resources can suffer a loss of value (economic, social and cultural), due to lack of preservation and consequent degradation. Therefore, they are exposed to hydrogeological hazards, emphasized by the impacts of climate change. The physical-geographical characteristics of the territories also contribute to determine, on the one hand, the over-exploitation of some resources (watercourses for hydroelectric power, slopes for skiing, etc.) and, on the other hand, their abandonment (isolated pastures and mountain huts, forests far from paved, drivable roads, etc.). The morphological specificities as well as changing resource-dependency attitudes and production practices in the mountain territories strongly influence the level of intensity in use of rural mountain common pool resources. Some examples are the dismissal of the practice of wood making for wood heating, attitude change from hunting for survival to sport and leisure, mountain pasturing from a necessity to a touristic attractiveness (Gri, 2008). The poster presents different regimes of property and use rights of common pool resources, considering comparing collective property, public ownership, bottom-up participatory action, communitarism Vs. universalism in the access to common goods. It will show the implication that each type of right has facing relevant mountain-specific demographic trends such as the arrival of newcomers (highlanders, migrants), low fertility, aging communities, depopulation and overpopulation of some areas, economic leverages and climate change impacts. Concrete insights are collected starting from an expert workshop that the authors have organized on the status quo in the selected study region of Triveneto (Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli).