Community Maps: A Participative Tool for Land Use Enhancement. The Case of Casentino

Abstract Community maps, adapted to the Italian context from the English Parish maps of the 1980s, have been an increasingly used participatory tool in our country for almost 30 years. Some of the processes for enhancement marginal territories have in fact used or use these tools. In the specific case of Casentino (Tuscany), there are three community maps created in the 2000s and continuously implemented. This essay will analyze the paths peculiar to each of them, activated and accompanied by the local ecomuseum network, which have allowed new processes of local growth and development to be “rooted” in this mountainous context.