Landscape agreement for biodiversity

On the basis of the contractual tools tested in contexts such as river basins, landscape areas, forests, etc., the “Landscape agreement for biodiversity” is a tool aimed at defining a strategy for territorial development and landscape enhancement shared with the populations and specifically oriented to the protection of biodiversity and the conservation of N2K sites. This tool can be particularly valuable in significantly urbanised contexts, where interactions between urban and peri-urban areas and N2K sites can, on the one hand, promote the quality of urbanised landscapes and the lives of their inhabitants and, on the other, counteract pressures on natural ecosystems. The following methodological steps are needed to make this instrument: - definition of the Committee promoting the Landscape agreement for biodiversity; - formation of a Technical Operating Unit for the coordination and promotion of activities (composed by representatives of the technical offices of the municipalities concerned, forest office managers of mountain unions, directors of protected areas, representatives of the regional offices responsible for landscape, agriculture, and protected areas; Tevere District Authority); - elaboration of the Founding Document of the agreement, with the following contents: aims and purposes, work process and methodology, timing and activities; - formal approval of the Founding Document, by the public and private bodies participating in the agreement; - construction of the map of the relevant actors and subjects and definition of the animation path (Action C6); - representation and sharing of the current and trend scenario (Action C6); - construction of the map of criticalities and potentialities: crossing between the cognitive framework and the visions of the actors involved (Action C6); - involvement of the public and local associations (Action C6); - constitution of the Landscape agreement for biodiversity (sharing the knowledge framework, the mapping of the actors, the critical issues and potential, the strategic objectives framework) (Action C6); 90 - signature of the Landscape agreement for biodiversity (memorandum of understanding) and definition of the Action Plan (Action C6).