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duced. The point is to incorporate, within existing regulatory frames, specific
recommendations, prescriptions and requirements about inclusion of RES in
landscape systems and landscape units.
Our commitment to energy programmes needs a landscape governance able to
tackle issues related both to the traditional spatial analysis and to prospective
outcomes in the long run. In the spatial domain, we should take landscape as
the ideal place for the construction of shared scenarios between administrators
and citizens. In the time domain, the point is either to allow natural reproduc-
tive cycles or to deal with unresolved places requiring landscape completion or
even reinvention measures.
The added value of the cognitive capital developing all along is due to establish
more effective and democratic participatory processes in the decision making.
Therefore, it conveys to the “covenant” between administrators and the general
public the belief that problems and conflicts between landscape quality objec-
tives and values-in-use can be clarified, removed, or at least mitigated.
The common choice of “inter-municipal districts” as case studies meets the need
for dealing with a suitable territorial scale in order to ensure practical landscape
protection measures in the presence of tangible environmental, economic and
social impacts and to launch a participated procedure of impact assessment.
The approach is based on the most reliable assessment techniques related both
to the development of Action Plans and to the screening of alternative typolo-
gies of RES plants to be installed, that could apply in the MED territories as a
reference frame. The main concern in the methodological approach has been
to bridge the gap between the rationality stemming from the planning culture,
linked to an “ends-means” approach, and the one related to the evaluation ap-
proach, notably the Strategic Environmental Assessment, in which compatibility,
congruity and consistency are at stake. Seemingly, the most appropriate way for
doing so is to outline a “common path” based on several milestones allowing a
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methodology.
