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Environmental Networks for
Smart Territories
In this chapter, the concepts of
environmental networks
and
territories
are
brought together. They are already dense with meaning individually, but we
make adjectives of them and consider the added value that derives from their
close geographical/
conceptual connection
. To carry out this reflection, we
start from the case study of the
Marche Regional Ecological Network
(REM)
for two reasons: first, considering the range of interpretations referring to this
concept, by presenting a concrete case we can refer to a specific meaning,
which we would like to reflect on without missing on an appropriate compar-
ison to other approaches; the second reason is directed at the recovery of an
experiential methodology that we often overlook in favor of abstractions.
Unfortunately, in the field of governance, we have often seen what can some-
time happen with apparently irrefutable theories, such that nothing positive is
left in the territory if the comparison with concrete implementation at differ-
ent levels of government is not controlled. The failures recorded in the histo-
ry of
landscape planning
in countries such as Italy, which should focus its
development policies on this extraordinary and strategic resource, are a warn-
ing we should not ignore: from the sharing of guidelines, programs, and mas-
ter plans on the regional and national levels, it is difficult to proceed with iden-
tifying the effects of implementation on the provincial and community levels.
Therefore, from the very beginning, the planning of the REM followed two
different yet complementary aims:
1.
Defining a complete framework for
regional ecological systems
and the
relationships that govern them.
2.
Providing tools to “contaminate”, with appropriate structural directions,
the
territorial policies
that different entities (region, province, city, and so
on) implement in their own skill areas, intervening on the tools used to plan
vast and communal areas.
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