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1.2 enerscapes projecT
The growing use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is leading to a new aware-
ness about their compatibility with landscape and heritage preservation policies.
The Enerscapes project aimed at avoiding the negative effects that a non-regulat-
ed diffusion of RES could cause on Mediterranean territories and landscapes. If
at national and European scale the development of RES can be considered as a
positive, desirable and necessary development, the local scale is challenged in
terms of changes of territorial assets, especially regarding ecological and cultur-
al landscapes. The RES market growth, if not suitably regulated, while on the one
Fig.1
province of
Vercelli, italy.
photo by
andrea
cherchi
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