The success of a food product is also the success of the territory that produced\ud
it. Based on this idea, we address the connection between landscape\ud
and quality wine in order to promote new sustainable development of\ud
rural territories. We use regulatory plans for ‘Wine Cities’ of Bomporto,\ud
Pramaggiore and San Martino sulla Marrucina (Italy) to highlight the ability\ud
of new urban-planning instruments to deal with different aspects relating to\ud
quality food and agriculture. The goal of the plans is to improve and renew\ud
the rural territory. Based on the Wine City Guidelines, the local urban plans for\ud
these towns provide useful indications, suggestions and rules for territorial\ud
improvement and transformation by way of enhancing the rural landscape\ud
and quality wine production. In promoting this new type of development,\ud
these plans encourage the direct involvement of local communities and\ud
manufacturing companies in sharing and promoting common objectives\ud
and development strategies
With regard to the scientific debate which highlights the potential of joint climate planning, there are few concrete experiences in Europe where this approach has been applied. This contribution focuses on critical methodological and application aspects of the processes underlying the development of Joint Plans for Sustainable Energy and Climate in the supra-municipal area as emerged from the direct participation of the authors in the Joint_SECAP project funded by the Interreg Italia-Croatia programme. This paper presents a comparative analysis of nine case studies in Italy and Croatia with a focus on fundamental aspects of the planning process: the governance model, shared knowledge framework, risk and vulnerability assessment, and participatory process. The analysis and comparison of the Joint_SECAP experiences confirm that joint climate planning, developed in the framework of the European Covenant of Mayors (CoM) initiative, is effective for creating synergy between local authorities and for defining and implementing strategies and actions for adaptation to the territorial scale. Finally, the research indicates some recommendations to overcome the barriers that impede the spread and effectiveness of this approach to climate planning. In particular, it highlights the need to enhance collaboration between local authorities, regions, and CoM coordinators.
The “Joint Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans” (Joint SECAPs) introduced by the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) are voluntary tools that favour a joint approach to energy planning and climate change mitigation/adaptation among municipalities in the same territorial area. The goal is to obtain joint results that are more effective and advantageous than those that can be achieved by the individual municipalities with respect to local climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. This article assesses their effectiveness in Italy. Six different experiences conducted mostly in small and medium municipal networks are compared, verifying the advantages and critical points in the different phases of building and implementing adaptation measures. A list of recommendations/objectives emerges from these experiences to guide the joint construction of adaptation measures, which may be implemented through multi-level participatory governance that encourages experimentation and innovation on the local level and develops synergy with large-scale policies and plans.
I terremoti intervengono all'improvviso e violentemente sul paesaggio. In questo articolo si sostiene la tesi che facendo leva sulla identita e sulla memoria collettiva si possano selezionare gli elementi di permanenza e di stabilita del paesaggio che potranno guidare la ricostruzione, favorendo una responsabile sperimentazione progettuale. Il Documento Direttore della Ricostruzione di Arquata del Tronto ha provato a riflettere su questi temi, suggerendo un possibile percorso progettuale.
In 2012 the WHO's Lancet Commission made a study of potential and innovative associations among the themes of health, social equality, and economic development in urban planning. While recognizing the so-called "urban advantage" for health, the study affirmed that this advantage is not absolute, but is supported by long-term policies and good planning of the urban environment, with a concentration on projects on different scales that involve both the communities and different institutional levels. Some cities have accepted this challenge, trying to build a method to design/regenerate the city, placing health at the centre and involving local populations, various interest holders, and experts. Ongoing experimentation currently concentrates on two themes: methods of evaluating the state of health of cities and quarters and the identification of design proposals consistent with the objectives of health and well-being, which, based on the assessment process, can be improved and made more efficient. This contribution proposes a proper methodology for project assessment, currently in the first phase of experimentation, in the rationalist quarter of Monticelli in Ascoli Piceno (Italy).
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