Landscape ecology from Italy to England

The IUAV project of Via Francigena

Leonardo Marotta and Virginio Bettini
Universit IUAV di Venezia - University IUAV of Venice leonardo.marotta@unisky.it; bettini@iuav.it

The Virginio Bettini Project, IUAV

2000-2007: El Camino de Santiago The Route of Santiago 2007-2012: Via Francigena A Journey on Urban and Landscape ecology along the historic pathways 900 students involved 70 Master Thesis on the Themes

The Virginio Bettini Project, IUAV looking for european landscape

The Virginio Bettini Project, IUAV looking for european landscape

Landscape and Cultural Routes, Greenway

(von) Humboldt & Peirce

Knowledge Pathway (A. v. Humbolt) Impression Synthesis
LANDSCAPE

Scientific Analysis

Triadic Relationships between sign and object (C.S. Peirce) Object (referent)
SIGN

Sign / significant (representant) (adapted from Vallega, 1995)

Sign / meaning (interpretant)

Landscape and Cultural Routes, Greenway

Landscape and Humans

(Naveh, 1995, Farina, 2000, 2004)

Landscape as the total Human Ecosystem The open space system can give the observer a sense of the more permanent system of which he and the city are only parts. ..... To a sense of the Web of life, interdependent system of living things,
(Lynch 1972, p 119)

Landscape and Cultural Routes, Greenway

Landscape and Walking

Greenways as compatibility of multiple use Greenways in historic landscape as social memory Song-lines and Bruce Chatwin Flnerie and city-walking Walking towards Santiago and in Francigena Path-way

Landscape and Cultural Routes, Greenway

Landscape, cultural routes and greenways

Cultural Routes are a cultural infrastructure able to redefine the level of de-growth and ecological sustainability based on natural, human and cultural resources. The landscape and cultural heritage of ancient common roots, like Via Francigena, were created before political definition of contemporary Europe and define the actual Europe. De-growing of transport footprint can be also regenerate and re-memorize the socioecological system.

Landscape and Cultural Routes, Greenway

Landscape, Walking, Cultrual Routes and Greenway: a New Model

The system made by human ecosystem and nonanthropized one is defined socio-ecological system (Gunderson e Holling 2002). The socio-ecological system in geographic space is the the total human ecosystem (Naveh and Liebermann, 1994)

Landscape and Cultural Routes, Greenway

The students work: a vision walking/landscape/pilgrim

Student: Luca Lazzarato

Spatial Analysis Scales

Bioclimatic /biogeographic Region ! (ecoregion):

Macrochore
Geology - Climate

Landscape System! Landscape Interface-System /subsystem /unit! Ecotone (over multiple scales)! Landscape! Unit
Disturbances! Patch formation
Ecotope

Mesochore
Geomorphology # Local Climate

Microchore
Biogeochemical and physical homogeneous process

Ecotope/patch

Patch

Assumes coastal system stable and controllable

Assumes coastal system predictable
Sustainable yield management of coastal resources

Accept disturbance as creator of diversity

Expect the unexpected
(attention to black swans)
Manage for diversity

Analysis (landscape and seascape)

Assessment (ecosystem approach, scale and thresholds) / Scenarios
Policy (objectives), Strategic Planning (actions and instruments)
Actions

Technological xes always possible

Harness human diversity in adaptive co-management
Society & nature separate
Social-ecological co-evolution

These situations are, unfortunately, more common Simple decisions, under type-2 distributions: there in laboratories and games than in real life. It is is little harm in being wrongthe tails do not rarely observed this case in payoffs in impact the payoffs.
environmental decision making
Statistical methods may work satisfactorily, though there are some risks. True, thin- tails may not be a panacea, owing to pre-asymptotic, lack of independence, and model error.
It is where the problem resides: Black swans area,. the prediction of remote payoffs though not necessarily ordinary ones. Payoffs from remote parts of the distribution are more difcult to predict than closer parts.

Landscape, society, science, policy

Post-Normal Science
Post-Normal Science (Funtowicz, and Ravetz, 1993) issue-driven approach relating to environmental debates on: subjective facts, values in dispute, stakes high, and decisions urgent. The management of such objective/ subjective complexity should not be called "science but being these problems present everywhere, these operative conditions for science are therefore "normal.

Landscape and Cultural Routes, Greenway

Geo-eco-social analysis, assessment, integration (Bettini, 1996; Naveh, 2000; Tiezzi, 2006) Integration of ecosystem services and landscape values (Farina et al., 2001)

A post-normal design for smart landscape

Regenerative design of human ecosystems

(Lyle, 1985, 1994)

Blue economy and systemic design (Pauli, 2010,

Bistagnino, 2009)

The greenway as eco-marketing for local communities (Smith, D. S., and P. C. Hellmund, 1993.
Fabos, J. G.. and J. Ahern, 1995)

Landscape and Cultural Routes, Greenway

Design slow mobility and De-growth

Slow mobility means greenways and smart landscapes

Smart landscape include alternative forms of agriculture, Slow and local food production in the landscape is integrated within transportation, trail recreation, and for the human need/preference for nearby nature and recreation (McHarg, 1969; Turner, 1995;
Bettini et al., 2011).

The effects can be significant using local sostainability metrics as ecological footprint or landscape ecology indicators (Marotta, 2011 in Bettini et al., 2011).

Global Hectares per Year

8

Actual state

Landscape and De-growth: ecological footprint

Smart landscape New tourist

3 Ecological Footprint gHa/yr 2 Biocapacity gHa/yr

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Landscape assessment: multiple metrics, multi-scale, diachronic analysis

Index Percolation (connectivity) BTC (functionality) LDI (impacts)
Year 1: 1860-1890 Year 2 1948-1952 Year 3 2008-2010

0.89 12.1 3.9

0.72 8.7 6.1

0.30 2.2 7.4

Landscape, society, science, policy

Design slow mobility and Degrowth

Cultural pathway, greenways, and smart landscape are planned and implemented to support tourism, local economy, re-design of human settlement integrating geography, local ecological-economic development and alternative forms of transportation, particularly pedestrian and bicycle travel (Turner, 1995). The benefits of this may be significant in terms of biodiversity, economy, traffic reduction, reduced air pollutants, and a healthier population (Santarossa, 1995; Bettini et al, 2011).

Landscape, society, science, policy

Design landscape, slow mobility, slow food, local socio-economic development and landscape
The project lentamente veloce for a smart landscape design by EcoErgoSum (www.ecoergosum.it) is a project to improve Socioecological system Resilience and Quality, Citizens Participation and Responsibility, Social equity, Freedom, Trasparency and Beauty.

The goals are use the slow mobility in order to design the landscape within the idea of resilience, taking into account how the socio-ecological system self-organizes and evolves co-adapting with the environment (and responding to changes).

The Francigena in Italy: analysis, assessment, proposal, planning and design

The students works on Francigena

Assessment

Regenerative Design over multiple scales

Students: Giuseppe Passuello and Elena Sammarini

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