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Description
The contribution presents partial findings from the work carried out by the authors within the ongoing PRIN (Research Project of Significant National Interest) PNRR project “Bioregional planning tools to co-design life places. Empowering local communities to manage and protect natural resources”, in particular with regard to the denotation of experiences of territorial governance that extend beyond traditional institutional planning frameworks. Grounded on the bioregional approach, the research project aims to contribute to the definition of a set of agreement tools for territorial planning, supporting collaborative forms of management and use of environmental resources by the communities that live in the territory. The agreement forms of planning identified in the project are intended as flexible frameworks for the definition, case by case, of the most suitable tools to allow the implementation of the principle of subsidiarity in the perspective of addressing local and global challenges more effectively.
The authors’ research focus is the urban bioregion of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, and this contribution concerns in particular the denotation and mapping of the "multiform experiences that use various tools of local action" (Dematteis, Magnaghi, 2018) observed within the study area. For this purpose, different types of experiences have been identified, ranging from semi-institutional processes of agreement planning of parts of the territory (such as river contracts) to community-led self-government of commons, offering a comprehensive picture of the forms of land management that complement conventional institutional planning.
The reconnaissance of the experiences made use of an online collaborative mapping tool, in order to allow interaction and integration between the knowledge base developed within the research project and the knowledge that can be produced by any other user. The embedding of the mapping tool within a specifically developed geosocial platform also allows for broader forms of social interaction between users, and aims to support the creation of multiple communities interested in participating in the processes and practices of land use and governance. Ultimately, the project aims to encourage the progressive formation of new institutions empowered to self-governing territorial resources.
References
Anderies, J.M., Janssen, M.A. and Ostrom, E. (2004) “A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective”, Ecology and Society, 9(1):18.
Dematteis, G. and Magnaghi, A. (2018) “Patrimonio territoriale e coralità produttiva: nuove frontiere per i sistemi economici locali”, Scienze del Territorio, 6, pp. 12-25.
Magnaghi, A. (2015) “Mettere in comune il patrimonio territoriale: dalla partecipazione all’autogoverno”, Glocale, 9-10, pp. 139-157.
| Keywords | Bioregion; Self-government; Territorial co-planning and co-design; Coevolution |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
