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Luca Lodatti - Veneto Region Mauro Varotto - University of Padua THE ALPTER PROJECT: MIDDLE LANDSCAPES, FROM PROBLEM TO RESOURCE Locorotondo
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Luca Lodatti - Veneto Region Mauro Varotto - University of Padua THE ALPTER PROJECT: MIDDLE LANDSCAPES, FROM PROBLEM TO RESOURCE Locorotondo 11 th International Congress of Dry-stone Walling – November 7 th 2008. PROJECT ALPTER – TERRACED LANDSCAPES OF THE ALPINE ARC. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Luca Lodatti - Veneto RegionMauro Varotto - University of Padua
THE ALPTER PROJECT:MIDDLE LANDSCAPES, FROM PROBLEM TO
RESOURCE
Locorotondo11th International Congress of Dry-stone Walling – November 7th 2008
PROJECT ALPTER – TERRACED LANDSCAPES OF THE ALPINE ARC
PROJECT ‘ALPTER’ - www.alpter.netA project for study and restoration of the terraced agricultural areas in the Alps. Aimed at enlarging the territorial knowledge, developing tools for promotion of disfavored areas and hazard.
Some results :• A common method for the analysis of terraced sites.• A network linking different experiences of study and recovery in EU terraced areas.• Integrated projects of recovery and revitalization of terraced abandoned areas.
INTERREG III B Alpine Space is an initiative that aims at promoting interregional cooperation in the European Union (period 2000-2006).
It is co-financed in the framework of the European Fund for Regional development.
Partnership:
Regione Veneto (Lead Partner) Regione Liguria (I)
Regione Valle d’Aosta (I) IREALP (Sondrio - I)
Universität BOKU (Vienna - A) University of Ljublijana (SLO)
Dep. Alps Maritimes (F) Regione Bregaglia (CH)
In collaboration wirh UNESCO
ALPTER Project Study Areas
TERRACED LANDSCAPES AS “MIDDLE LANDSCAPES”
Terraced sites are among the most significant (and fragile) semi-natural habitats, a combination of natural and cultural heritage.
They are based on anthropic equilibrium, which requires human inputs in order to be kept.
Their intermediacy regards also different fields, like social, environmental and economical aspects
private property
social values
community
artificial spaces
environmental values
natural environments
monoculture
economic values
self-sustainment agriculture
M.C. Escher, Day and Night, 1938
TERRACED LANDSCAPES as „MIDDLE LANDSCAPES“
with regard to NATURE and ENVIRONMENT:
Natural ArtificialWilderness Intensive cultivationBiodiversity Monoculture
Semi-natural habitatHigh-biodiversity agriculture
M.C. Escher, Day and Night, 1938
TERRACED LANDSCAPES as „MIDDLE LANDSCAPES“
with regard to SOCIETY and SIMBOLIC VALUES:
Private PublicIndividual CollectiveAuthonomy Interdependence
Semi-privateCollective works
M.C. Escher, Day and Night, 1938
TERRACED LANDSCAPES as „MIDDLE LANDSCAPES”
with regard to ECONOMY and PRODUCTION :
Subsistence Economy Modern monofunctionalityPolycolture MonocultureHand techniques Mechanization
Multifunctionality Modern polycolture
M.C. Escher, Day and Night, 1938
The ‘Middle landscapes’ are threatened by all the processes towards opposite extremes:
The many threats to terraced landscapes
Threats to terraced landscapesThe Productivity Diktat
Threats to terraced landscapesThe Urban Sprawl
Threats to terraced landscapesAbandonment and Wilderness
The environmental and economical balance between the opposite extremes is a value: recognizing this character of the terraced landscapes means recognizing their importance.
Intermediacy as a value of ‘middle landscapes’
The terraced landscapes are a balanced setting at various levels: environmentally (man/nature), socially (private/common), economically (production/sustenance)
They are a historical example of what is nowadays called ‘Sustainable land management’
After recognizing their value, the necessity of supporting them emerges from local and international subjects
NEW ATTENTION FOR THE TERRACED LANDSCAPES(Earth Summit Rio 1992 – Agenda 21, cap. 34)
1987-2008: SPS Societé internationale pour l’etude de la Pierre Sèche - Drystone
Walling Congress
• 1997: ONU Programme against desertification• 1998: IPOGEA (UNESCO)• 1999: ‘Cinque Terre’ in the World Heritage• 2000: European PATTER Project• 2001: White Book of Italian Touring Club (Un paese spaesato)• 2003: PROTERRA (Swiss Found. for Landscape Prot.)• 2004: TERRISC Project• 2005: ALPTER Project• 2005: REPS Project• Specific research programmes (IT: AGEI, IMONT, SIGEA)• Eco-museums of terraces (Cortemilia, Valstagna)
The strategy of the ALPTER Project
2.b Promotion strategies:• Productive recovery• Tourist promotion• Enhancement of social value
2.a Promotion, not protection(active use vs ‘monumentalization’)
1. Knowledge (Inventory, Mapping, Analysis)
Example of activities of the ALPTER Project
Research and policies in Veneto
BRENTA RIVER VALLEY, VENETO, ABOUT 1950
ALPTER Project Study Areas
WORKERS IN A TOBACCO FIELD
EXAMPLE OF TERRACED LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT: BRENTA RIVER VALLEY, MID ’70s
EXAMPLE OF TERRACED LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT: BRENTA RIVER VALLEY, 2006
Detailed Map of terraces in the study area (scala 1:25000)
Work steps
Start: Official Regional Topomap
1st step: Aerial photos (1967)
2st step: Survey on the groundElaboration: University of Venice
Results: Cartographic base the local Municipalities and the planners
ALPTER Analysis activities(2005- 2007)
TerrazzamentiPratoBoscoPascoloPascolo mistoIncoltoEdifici
1834
TerrazzamentiPratoBoscoPascoloPascolo mistoIncoltoEdificiNon disponibile
1960
Terrazzamenti a ortiBoscoEdificiNon disponibile
2000
Historical cadastre(scale 1:25000)
Examined documents:
- Austrian Cadastre - 1830
- Present Cadastre - 1990Elaboration: Univ. of Padua
State Archive of Bassano
On the right, comparison between land uses:- Land use in 1830- Land use in 1960- Present time (aerial photos)
Data sheetsCommon format to all the ALPTER project
areas
Data collection for 17 sites
Projects for management of some sites, in collaboration with the local Municipalities
Planning and design foreseeing sustainable technologies:
- Solare panels- Water collection systems- Passive buildings - Monorail
The higher part of the settlement has been conceived as self-sufficient
Higher settlement- Presently abandoned
Linking path- Well preserved
Lower settlement- Inhabited
Example of restoration and management project : Mattietti and 22 Hours Hill
New Master Plan of the Valley
Guidelines for landscape management
With the support of the local administrations and of the planners, a classification of different typologies of terraced areas and related guidelines have been included in the new Master Plan. Descrizione generale Localizzazione
geografica Problematiche/Potenzialità
Siti terrazzati di elevato valore paesaggistico, d’interesse per il mantenimento dell’identità percettiva del Canale
Versanti di mezza costa
Pb: - Scarsa accessibilità - Necessità di forti investimenti Pt: - Elevate potenzialità per uso turistico/sportivo/di accoglienza
Terrazzamenti rilevanti per la problematica idro-geologica, con un ruolo di contrasto contro il rischio per l’abitato a valle
Impluvi vallivi secondari
Pb: - Rischio di abbandono e seguente dissesto idro-geologico Pt: - Mantenimento della sistemazione tradizionale con protezione dal rischio
Terrazzamenti situati in zone intermedie fra l’abitato e il versante, in zone ancora destinate ad uso agricolo familiare
Basso versante / Conoide
Pb: - Mancanza di integrazione nel sistema dell’abitato (accessi, reti) Pt: - Valorizzazione private con uso misto agricolo/ turistico/abitativo
Terrazzamenti situati entro i centri abitati, che presentano elementi di sovrapposizione con il sistema dell’edificato
Valle (o basso versante)
Pb: - Modificazioni causate dall’edificato Pt: - Recupero del pieno valore identitario entro l’abitato
Terrazzamenti abbandonati e coperti dalla vegetazione di versante
Mezza costa Pb: - Scarsa accessibilità - Necessità di forti investimenti Pt: - Scarse
- Proposal for integration of the Regional Rural Development Plan (EU Funds for Agriculture)
- Meetings with the regional government for a funding measure for rural landscape
- From 2009 to 2013, co-funding opportunities for landscape-related activities
- Promotion strategies:• Productive recovery• Tourist promotion• Enhancement of social value
Establishment of financial support instruments
Who can restore and live in this terraced areas?
Beside the local inhabitants, this is an area populated by immigrants who works in the plains and rent a house here.
86%
14%
minori italiani
minori stranieri
79%
21%
Resident population
Immigrants/Residents Ratio: Higher than Italian average Immigrants/Residents Ratio for young people
“The stone refused
by the builders has become
a key stone ”
Thank [email protected]
