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Farming activity is an ecosystem-dependent economic activity. Ecosystem Services concept can help to read the forms of this dependence. This work suggests a multidisciplinar interpretation of the relationship of different farm typologies with ecosystems. The work, after a rich conceptual introduction, analyses three different case studies to enlight different aspects of the farm-ecosystem relationships (agronomic, economic, normative, social) suggesting possible innovative paths for sustainable farm development.

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Sara Antognelli lives and works in Perugia, in the hearth of Italy, where was born in 1989. After graduating with honours in Rural Sustainable Development, she is now a PhD student. She thinks that understanding the relation between people and environment could help sustainable development.

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