PAESAGGIO, AMBIENTE, TERRITORIO APERTO. CASI NEL LAZIO

The environmental issue encompasses different patterns of open spaces (the so-called “nature public infrastructure”), including their still natural components, that is protected areas, along with lands devoted to agriculture. In the Latium Region, only few inter-municipal initiatives were developed to support effective policies established in order to enhance the connectivity of the ecological net. Furthermore, in absence of shared orientations, some strategies defined at the local level (from the district one to the municipal one), are at risk because of frequent political turnovers. Yet, environmental policies are most promising, since they advocate overlapping (cross-over?) tools depending on different administrations. They should provide governance models able to subsidize “top-down” compulsory policies towards the primary ecological networks (regional parks, waterways, wetlands, etc.), with “bottom-up” practices concerning local connections, stemming from municipality and private action.