Military Training Areas as Semi Commons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services

Abstract

The military areas in Sardinia are around 234 km 2 , which constitutes 59.97% of the national surface affected by military easements. This situation is due to its geographic centrality in the Mediterranean. This contribution evaluates the performance of the Local Coastline Plan (LCP) and the Site Management Plan of Community Interest (SCI) in conditions of military constraint. The case study is the Municipality of Villaputzu where an important coastal military easement and the use of the coast for recreational tourism purposes coexist together through specific planning, a consequence of institutional agreements between the Municipal Administration of Villaputzu and the Ministry of Defense. The evaluation of the congruence of the specific objectives of the LCP and the SCI shows how their combined action favors the environmental enhancement of Sardinia, contributing to the formation of ecosystem services, even in particular conditions arising from military easements. These are sites that pass from the status of 'anti-commons' to 'semi-commons'. In fact, the military release process in Sardinia, together with the promiscuous military and civil use, activates unique governance policies of their kind that find a significant field of application in Sardinia to guarantee a sustainable renewal of economic development of the 'semi-commons' awaiting to become 'commons' 1 .Coastal Use Plan (LCP) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): scientific coordinator Ginevra Balletto. Participated in: MUPV, LCP and SEA Alessandra Milesi and LCP Nicolò Fenu . 2 In Italy the state property 'Demanio' (Civil Code art. 822 et seq.) consists of the necessary state property, which includes the maritime state property (sea shore, beach, ports, roads, lagoons, river mouths that flow into the sea, water basins sauce or brackish, canals usable for maritime public use and appliances belonging to the maritime domain), the water state property (rivers, lakes and streams, excluding the sources that flow into the sea, public waters defined by the legislation on the subject, all groundwater and surface waters also collected in reservoirs and cisterns, excluding rainfalls not conveyed, in a watercourse or not collected in reservoirs or cisterns) andPreprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: