The Eco-Territorialist Approach for the Self-sustainability of Calabrian Contexts

The eco-territorialist approach can usefully address the protection, reha-bilitation and enhancement of Calabrian territories. Indeed, emergencies will increas-ingly become a constant over time, albeit in different forms: let’s think of rains, that will more and more arrive in the form of “water bombs” and will find areas already damaged by thousands of landslides and with water escape routes (rivers first of all) not cleared; or, on the other hand, of fires after that prolonged droughts have weakened the land geopedology. We must prepare to face even very difficult situa-tions. But without losing the ability to look beyond. The same measures envisaged by the Landscape plan, if coherently taken up and reinstated, indicate the useful and necessary operations for environmental protection and remediation; including projects for short-term climate resilience and adaptation. Up to a redeveloped terri-tory, from which future scenarios of social self-sustainability linked to landscapes can emerge. In this direction, we can move from a reinterpretation of the Regional plan, the existing Landscape QTR, certainly after having re-elaborated and reapproved the related regulatory system; above all its requirements at that time (2012) transformed by the regional administration in charge into non-binding indications. Thus practi-cally reducing the plan to academic practice. The territories/landscapes vision of that act was already inspired by the territorialist concept of “Urban BioRegion”: the land-scapes QTR identifies in the region are practically as many “urban biosubregions”. In which territorial heritage must be revisited and reinterpreted today. Not only for reha-bilitation and protection, but to explore the potential for self-sustainable enhancement that each context offers. Always starting from protection and always respecting, in each context, environmental rules and place statutes.