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activities was consequently central both to promote RES and to avoid negative
externalities at local level, that may also be the cause of resistance among the
population.
By connecting energy planning and territorial planning, partners identified strat-
egies for considering ecological, landscape and heritage aspects while setting
up RES promotion policies. Starting from the construction of a common basis on
best practices and normative solutions, partners defined an assessment method
and common rules with the perspective of environmental-landscape safeguard
for RES introduction in the MED Area. Involved dimensions were: landscape
ecology (biodiversity, ecology networks), landscape and heritage (cultural land-
scapes, historical values, preservation), agriculture sector (biomass production,
use of land, for solar energy production in place of cultivations), technology
(renewable energy production methods), environmental assessment, adminis-
trative procedures.
Enerscapes project: goals and actions
The goal of Enerscapes was the development of the RES market, implementing
a set of rules and actions in the field of territorial and landscape protection.
Moreover, it is important to stress is that the strategies toward which Enerscapes
aimed at were not only relevant to the participants’ needs, but could be effec-
tively applicable in all countries of the MED area: just for this reason Enerscapes
will be counting on the good geographic coverage of its partnership in order to
assure results that are unique for all the MED programme area.
Fig.2
regions of the Med area and enerscapes partners.
