LAMCODE
Landscape Management for Countryside Development

The objective of the project is the integration of the European Spatial Development Perspective principles into a shared and participated code, which gives added value to rural landscape plans and policies. The expected results are the development of an instrument whose main aim is the flexibility and consensus building capability among the different territorial actors to assure an active preservation of rural areas. The project’s overall objective is the achievement of a shared methodology ensued from local implementations of the Sub-project partners, which could be applied in other contexts. This code should guide in well designing recycling processes, productive activities management in environmental sensitive areas, as well as to face countryside planning themes. Particularly this project wants to think about the agricultural scenarios of spatial development in relation to the housing system in order to have an eco-compatible and energy efficient approach.

All partners operate in rural context, where landscape and environment represent one of the major resource for economic development. Many of the areas show problems with environmental alterations, which threaten Landscape and ecological balances, because of direct, indirect and cumulative impacts. All considered contexts are located near metropolitan areas, need to be protected by their pressure, and demand about preservation or affirmation of a “not-metropolitan model”, based on the balanced relationship with landscape and territory able to promote inhabitants’ well-being without hindering economic activities and sustainable development.

LAMCODE has involved the following partners

Parco Naturale di Bracciano e Martignano (Italy) - Lead Partner
Comune di Asti (Italy)
Ayuntamiento de Talamanca del Jarama (Spain)
Depepok S.A (Greece)

Meetings

Kick off meeting: 2nd and 3rd November 2006, Parco di Bracciano
Presentation of the partners and discussion of the joint work

Second meeting: 14th and 15th May 2007, Kozani
Presentation of preliminary results by the single partners
Discussion of the ongoing work and its organisation

Final meeting: 15th and 16th October 2007, Asti
Presentation of the final results to the public

Outputs / Results

The project’s overall objective was the achievement of a shared methodology from the experiences of the Sub-project partners, which could be applied in other contexts. Since all partners faced different aspect of the landscape matter, partners managed local projects autonomously and partnership could not develop an actual “common methodology”. Nevertheless, an agreed structured approach to case studies allowed to the identification of transferable elements in each one of the 4 working steps that all partners had in common, it constituted our “methodology” for the exchange of experiences.

1 - Identification and analysis of landscapes
Methods and tools: “landscape report” (from Asti’s experience), “ecological network” (from Park’s experience), “landscape units” (from Talamanca’s experience)
2 - Definition of governance needs
(legal framework and authorities involved in landscape management)
Problems of governance to keep into account: Integration of landscape in existing planning tools, coordination of planning tools, increase of public awareness about landscape
3 - Identification of tools and policies for landscape management
Guidelines for ecological network components (from Park’s experience), guidelines for sustainable architecture (from Asti’s experience), guidelines for landscape units (from Talamanca’s experience), operational regulation for new housing (from Depepok’s experience)
4 - Definition of strategies for monitoring, assessment and redesign policies
Environmental indicators from field surveys (from Park’s experience), structured forms for planning process (from Asti’s experience), Agenda 21 (from Talamanca’s experience), new specific department (from Depepok’s experience). Each partner also produced “local results”.

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