Vesper No. 9 | The Adversary | Fall-Winter 2023
Francesco Trovò
Environment vs. Landscape. The Territory Divided
between Urban Planning, Ecology and Landscape Protection
Keywords
Ecological transition, landscape, environment,
renewable energy, green deal
Environment and landscape in Italy today are characterised by mutual
conceptual and legal adversities, which are exacerbated by issues related to
the ecological transition. Renewable energy plants may have positive effects on
ecology and the environment, but they will potentially have a negative impact
on landscape values. The issue may lead to a choice between relevant
conflicting demands that will need to be balanced so that one does not
preponderate over the other. The current view, according to which the
protection of the landscape is autonomous with respect to that of the
environment, is countered by another, according to which the territory must be
understood holistically; the latter identifies precisely in the separation of
competences one of the causes of the ineffectiveness of protection action and
hopes for the formation of a single decision-making nucleus, in which
antagonisms are systemised and resolved, also by elaborating cultural codes for
the construction of new cohabitations.
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