Authors:Concetta Fallanca, Elvira Stagno Pages: 5 - 30 Abstract: Green areas represent crucial elements for urban environments that promote the health and well-being of the community and the entire urban organism. An ecological approach to planning allows us to recognize the well-being of communities and urban systems as essential elements for effective planning to meet contemporary environmental and social needs. This contribution presents the results of extensive research that converge into a comprehensive laboratory work; an experimental field aimed at strengthening the transition process towards green and sustainable cities, focusing on the enhancement and implementation of natural capital within the vast territory of the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria and its Aspromonte National Park. A multidisciplinary and experimental approach in collaboration between the University and the Metropolitan City of Reggio has led to the development of a theoretical and methodological framework consisting of a related system of principles, criteria, and essential measures to facilitate the initiation of early activities in support of the institutional entities of the Reggio metropolitan area. These entities are committed to managing the funds of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan - PNRR, and their missions fully align within the same experimentation field for the valorization of the ecological structure of urban and territorial greenery in the entire area and the networking of spaces for social interaction, thus ensuring a valued healthy climate urban profile PubDate: 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.6093/2531-9906/10850 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 1 (2024)
Authors:Emanuela Coppola, Silvana D'Ambrosio Pages: 31 - 42 Abstract: The Regional Natural Park of Vulture is the youngest among the protected areas in Basilicata, located at the border with Campania and Puglia, characterized by a unique blend of geomorphological, vegetational, and historical-cultural aspects. The proposal about a park project aims at establishing and implement ecological, landscape, and multilevel environmental connections, focusing on identifying and enhancing green infrastructures to overcome the issue about portions of territory’s fragmentation and its identity and statutory components. The project plan is based on the analysis and interpretation of various environmental and landscape components to understand the structuring elements and co-evolutionary processes of the territory, that have determined its current configuration. Environmental networks become the essential tool to define these multiscale and multidimensional connections to establish a combined system for the conservation and enhancement of natural and cultural resources, promoting local development processes. The technical-operational methodology is based on the notion of Landscape Ecology, integrated with a territorialist approach and interpretation planning. This approach involves studying the interactions between natural and anthropic ecosystems and their influences on ecological processes. This methodology is a cultural choice in the scientific coordination of the Natural Regional Park Plan Agreement PubDate: 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.6093/2531-9906/10851 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 1 (2024)
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