RETICULA n. 31/2022 Monographic Number
The protection of ecological connectivity after 30 years of Habitats Directive
The 2022 is the year in which we celebrate some important milestones in the pathway taken for nature conservation in Europe and Italy. At the European level it marks 30 years since the promulgation of Habitats Directive (Dir. 92/43/EEC). ISPRA, which has believed in the implementation of this important tool from the very beginning, recall the intense work that after 10 years led to the publication of the guidelines Management of functional ecological linkage areas for the construction of ecological networks at the local scale, which still represent a national reference document on the topic.
Last, and certainly not least, this year marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of RETICULA journal, heir to the long work carried out by the "Ecological Networks" working group which included leading specialists in the field from the entire country.
This monographic issue is a moment of stocktaking, not exhaustive, on initiatives implemented on connectivity issue in Italy and, at the same time through the thematic editorials, it also wants to be a reflection on the proposals and actions to be put in place also to achieve the objectives of National Biodiversity Strategy will set.
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SUMMARY
Preface by the Editorial Board
EDITORIALS: REFLECTIONS ON THIRTY YEARS OF PROTECTING ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
Designing and planning ecological networks: what has changed in the last twenty years?
Corrado Battisti e Michela Gori
The environmental strategies, tools, and assessments to support ecological connectivity
Anna Maria Maggiore e Nicoletta Tartaglini
Ecological networks and new paradigms of territorial planning
Alessandro Marucci
Thirty years of the Habitats Directive: urgency of knowledge and monitoring
Stefania Ercole e Valeria Giacanelli
Natura 2000 and the Life program: thirty years of a synergistic growth
Angelo Salsi
The Habitats Directive, European programming, and ecological connectivity in agriculture: success stories and missed opportunities
Claudio Celada
Future prospects for ecological connectivity in light of the new European and global tools and strategies
Piero Genovesi
EXPERIENCES AND PROJECTS
Thirty years of Natura 2000 in Italy: between conservation, transformation, and inexorable urban pressure
Bernardino Romano, Francesco Zullo, Cristina Montaldi
Integrated application of the Habitats Directive and the Water Framework Directive: towards the biodiversity plan of the Po River
Paola Gallani, Fernanda Moroni, Simone Ciadamidaro, Concita Daniela Spada, Maria Rita Minciardi
The priority infrastructure gates in the LIFE IMAGINE UMBRIA Project
Lorena Fiorini, Alessandro Marucci
From theory to practice: the LIFE IP Gestire2020 action plan for ecological connectivity in Lombardy
Fabrizio Oneto, Mattia Bertocchi, Sergio Canobbio, Patrizia Digiovinazzo, Giuliana Cavalli, Gherardo Fracassi, Marco Torretta, Bruna Comini, Dario Kian, Lucia Ratti, Anna Rampa, Marzia Cont
Greenway of the Adda river in Valtellina: digital, integrated, and participatory territorial planning project
Giuliana Cavalli, Giacomo Laghetto, Alessandro Leonardi, Cinzia Leusciatti, Bruna Comini, Italo Buzzetti, Antonio Tagliaferri, Anna Rampa
Designing Ecological networks through social networks: over twenty years of experience in Vercelli's rice fields
Alessandra Melucci, Luca Cristaldi, Raffaella Pagano
BOX. Ten years of RETICULA journal in numbers by the Editorial Board