Some considerations are drawn on the need to consider forest ecosystems within the landscape ecological context, with the purpose to create, also in the mind of many forest technicians and public administrators, a reference framework for the science and the art of Sylviculture, which would represent the “expert” mode through which the objectives of forest management, defined in a wider process of landscape governance, can be accomplished. Such considerations, are not extraneous to the lesson of the Italian School of Forest Ecology, and spring, on the one hand, from the problem of the "lack of well defined objectives" (with respect to both Sylviculture and management) for the implementation of interventions financed on EU funds (Motta 2007) and, on the other, from the, relatively recent and rather variegate, demonstration of interest for landscape ecological issues in the Italian forestry literature. They make reference to the system of values, behaviors, perceptions, demands of human communities that influence accelerated dynamics of the present landscapes, and they recall the undersigned appointments through the European Convention of the Landscape, as well as the legal commitments deriving from the Directive 92/43/CEE. Finally, they are based on research experiences carried out within the ample stream of the ecological research at the landscape scale, aimed at the investigation of the implications (from the ecological, planning and management perspectives) of complex ecological systems hierarchical nature.
ECOSISTEMI FORESTALI NEL PAESAGGIO. RIFLESSIONI SULL'IMPORTANZA DEL "CONTESTO", TRA ECOLOGIA, DETERMINANTI DI CAMBIAMENTO, POLITICA E STRUMENTI NORMATIVI
MAIROTA, Paola;
2009-01-01
Abstract
Some considerations are drawn on the need to consider forest ecosystems within the landscape ecological context, with the purpose to create, also in the mind of many forest technicians and public administrators, a reference framework for the science and the art of Sylviculture, which would represent the “expert” mode through which the objectives of forest management, defined in a wider process of landscape governance, can be accomplished. Such considerations, are not extraneous to the lesson of the Italian School of Forest Ecology, and spring, on the one hand, from the problem of the "lack of well defined objectives" (with respect to both Sylviculture and management) for the implementation of interventions financed on EU funds (Motta 2007) and, on the other, from the, relatively recent and rather variegate, demonstration of interest for landscape ecological issues in the Italian forestry literature. They make reference to the system of values, behaviors, perceptions, demands of human communities that influence accelerated dynamics of the present landscapes, and they recall the undersigned appointments through the European Convention of the Landscape, as well as the legal commitments deriving from the Directive 92/43/CEE. Finally, they are based on research experiences carried out within the ample stream of the ecological research at the landscape scale, aimed at the investigation of the implications (from the ecological, planning and management perspectives) of complex ecological systems hierarchical nature.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
