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P Menegoni
Florintesa, a program agreement for the italian botanical gardens and the national floristic heritage.
OUR CLAIM: "The Botanical Gardens are, par excellence, responsible for carrying out the important mission of the conservation of our flora, through specific actions on live plants and their seeds, along with education and outreach aimed at spreading a new environmental culture, more careful and respectful of the essential needs of life, more sensible to the aesthetic and scientific value of the national flora" To overcome the isolation and strengthen their role in our society, the University Botanical Gardens have become promoters of national and European consortiums: examples are the working group "Botanical and Historic Gardens" of the Italian Botanical Society (1) and, on the global leve…
Educational or emotional languages? An interactive experiment with the Lucanian flora (S-Italy)
In the frame of dissemination activities for a still-in-progress work on the Sites of Community Importance (see EU Directive 92/43) of Basilicata (a region of Southern Italy), an interactive tool (IIT) for the identification of vascular plants growing there has been illustrated to two groups of people, following two different approaches: one focused on textual parts and on scientific accuracy, the other on images and on the visual comparison of different objects. The reactions were measured in terms of number of accesses to the IIT, elapsed time from the demonstration to the first individual access, and number of queries in the first week after the IIT was distributed. The most clicked opti…
The integrated action framework of Rete Natura 2000 Basilicata
Basilicata Natura 2000 network consists of 50 Sites of Community Importance (SCI) and 17 Special Protection Zones (SPZs), covering alltogether more than 17% of the regional area. This network, partially overlapping other forms of land protection, represents a valuable environmental, agricultural and cultural heritage, in which the safeguard of natural resources and landscapes has to be coupled with the needs of the local population; especially in relation to development and social welfare. The Natura 2000 project involved a panel of experts belonging to 15 different institutions, to form a steering committee with the following professional and scientific skills: vegetation, landscape, fauna…
Florintesa: patrimonio floristico e Orti botanici in Italia
Agricoltura di qualità e rete natura 2000: “laboratori” del cambiamento
Through the centuries, rural communities have managed their environment creating a rich landscape diversity. This represents an historical heritage both for the region and for humanity because the "world" itself represents the sum of widespread fragmentation processes following specific laws. The intense socio-economic changes of the last century, the rise of the "global" markets, in particular, have radically changed the landscape configuration and its natural quality across Europe. Natura 2000 network and the network of protected areas are currently the "open laboratories" to test a model of development that is compatible with the priceless treasure such as: species, habitats, landscape a…
Il portale del progetto Rete Natura 2000 Basilicata
INN2000 - Intesa Natura 2000: valori e patrimoni nel settore natura.
La disintegrazione del paesaggio rurale
In Italia, la prima legge riguardante i beni storico-paesaggistici è stata emanata nel 1922. Nonostante questa rappresenti un risultato significativo per quei tempi, in quanto ai contenuti, rimane lontana dal cogliere la completa essenza del paesaggio. Ancora oggi, molte politiche e iniziative per la protezione del paesaggio appaiono viziate dall’originaria impostazione della disciplina, trascurando i valori legati alla biodiversità e ai servizi ecosistemici, fondamentali per la conservazione dei paesaggi tradizionali e per la stessa sopravvivenza della specie umana. L’articolo sottolinea la necessità di una maggiore consapevolezza del ruolo funzionale esercitato dall’agricoltura, intesa co…