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tuali funzionali ad un approccio ecosistemico per la pianificazione del territorio il
WWF Italia, in collaborazione con l’Università dell’Aquila, ha promosso e finanziato
l’avvio di una ricerca sperimentale sulla “Carta Ecosistemica”.
Abstract
The preface of the Draft European Landscape Charter European Convention on Landscape
explicitly evokes the relationship between biodiversity and landscape, referring
to international legal literature concerning land planning and the management and
protection of natural and cultural assets.
The new strategy of the European Union, approved in 2006, provides a framework within
which EC policies and tools can be developed in order to apply the Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD).
This approach also takes into account the objectives of the Pan-European Biological
and Landscape Diversity Strategy. The analogies between the general goals of the Draft
European Landscape Charter and the objectives of the CBD, as well as the European
strategy for the conservation of biodiversity, are evident. A correct and adequate application
on both a national and local scale of these international agreements and the
EU guidelines must recognize the links between biodiversity and landscape. WWF Italy
continues to support and argue for the strong correlation between landscape planning
and biodiversity conservation in accordance with the guidelines of the CBD.
The overall problem is how to implement the strategic goal of biodiversity conservation
over vast areas in a way which is compatible with landscape and planning at local
and provincial scales. It is fundamental that innovative landscape planning establishes
methodological, technical and political standards to ensure that biodiversity conservation
becomes one of the strategic objectives of land management.
WWF proposes “Ecoregional Conservation” as the methodology able to address both
the needs of biodiversity conservation over vast areas, and the requirements of the local
communities involved. The planning, construction and maintenance of large-area
multi-functional ecological networks can be the tools which bring together landscape
policy and biodiversity conservation.
In order to contribute effectively to the establishment of conceptual tools and methodologies
appropriate to an ecosystemic approach to planning, WWF Italy, together with
the University of Aquila, has promoted and financed the launch of experimental research
into the “Ecosystem Charter”.
1. Fermare la perdita di biodiversità
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Arrestare la perdita di biodiversità è una delle grandi sfide ambientali del XXI secolo. La perdita
di habitat e di specie continua ad avvenire in dimensioni spaziali e numeriche sempre maggiori,
ed in tempi sempre più ridotti, al punto che per alcuni autorevoli rappresentanti del mondo
scientifico a livello internazionale ci troviamo ormai coinvolti nella VI grande estinzione a livello
globale. Molteplici sono le cause della perdita di biodiversità, dai cambiamenti climatici alla frammentazione
degli habitat, dalla distruzione diretta degli ecosistemi all’introduzione di specie alloctone.
Ognuna di queste specifiche cause si manifesta a livello globale e locale ed è riconducibile
all’azione della nostra specie. Le attività antropiche determinano sui sistemi naturali pressioni ed
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