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1210 | | The incidence of socio-environmental conflicts in land planning and landscape preservation | Joan Vicente Rufí (1); Jaume Feliu Torrent (1)

The panel aims to reflect and share projects and research around socio-environmental conflicts and their results in relation to territorial planning and landscape preservation. It is based on the hypothesis that, at least in Europe, the protection of landscapes and progress in planning has had a direct relationship with social mobilizations. Currently, in a context of ecosocial transition with significant and accelerating environmental challenges, the paradox is that there is also a crisis of protectionist paradigms and methods of planning and intervention in the territory. The debates around NIMBY attitudes, the relationship between local and global logics, the scale of needs and environmental and landscape problems, social justice versus territorial justice, conflictivity between place-attachment and unavoidable landscape changes for the transition to be effective… have reappeared with force.
 
Therefore, based on the hypothesis pointed out, we understand that a review of the roles of mobilization and territorial governance mechanisms is necessary if we want their contributions to continue to be positive impulses for society and the natural environment as a whole.

Joan Vicente Rufí (1); Jaume Feliu Torrent (1)
(1) Departament de Geografia. Universitat de Girona

 
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1202 | 617 | Predictive Apocalyptic Future Scenarios of the Environmental Ecological Crisis: Towards Mitigating Territorial Approaches | Giuliana Quattrone

After the catastrophic predictions of the Club of Rome, the environmental question has emerged in all its evidence, linked to which there is also the realisation that if the trend of usurping environmental resources is not reversed, many traces of the past will risk disappearing. The environmental issue approached by the various international documents (up to Agenda 2030) warns us to change course and operate in the sense of ‘ecological conversion’; in this framework, man must operate a reconciliation with himself and the environment in which he lives in a relationship of respect and protection of the territory. In fact, the entire territory, for the history that has formed it, for its landscape and cultural values, for the collective memory that animates it, for its very recognisability, is to be considered in the first instance an environmental asset to be protected. In this sense, the reclamation of contaminated sites, the integrated management of waste, and the protection of ecosystems are just some of the important issues that Italy must approach with focused policies, not only to ensure an adequate level of quality of life, but also to guarantee legality and safety, even before economic development, and at the same time to express the ability to design a compatible future._x000D_
Starting from these considerations, the paper retraces the main stages of the environmental issue, focusing on situations where the presence of fragile territories requires an urgent rethinking of planning and land management practices. In these territories, it is essential to reflect on the transformations of the man/territory relationship, which in many cases has resulted in irreversible environmental damage and the consequent disappearance of resources, envisaging possible scenarios planning approaches and sustainable solutions.

Giuliana Quattrone
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

 
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