Il progetto rewetland: riqualificazione ambientale dell’Agro Pontino attraverso la valorizzazione ricostruzione del paesaggio storico

Abstract

"Rewetland" project (LIFE+ 2008 - environment and governance. www.rewetland.eu) requires the preparation of an Programma di Riqualificazione Ambientale (PRA) of the Pontine Plain through experimentation with techniques of widespread phytoremediation. The PRA is based on a thorough analysis of the landscape from those of the reclamation of the Popes (XV -XVII cent.), up to the present day. The aim of the landscape analysis has been to reconstruct the elements making up the different areas of the local landscape into unified framework, as much as possible internally coherent and comparable to each other in order to assess the quality of the landscape, the changes through time or now being implemented, the necessity of regeneration processes, the potentialities to absorb new project interventions. GIS software tools have been essential, both to identify the permanence of the historic and rural landscape, and to define and evaluate the possible intervention scenarios. PRA actions, projects and interventions regard the renaturalization of waterways and the creation of wetlands and ecosystem filters and promote the activation of good practices not only for the management of the drainage channels but also for the farms. The methodology used allowed us to read the changes in the landscape of the Pontine Plain and at the same time to design interventions and actions that respond to multiple environmental restoration needs and objectives: improvement of water quality, enhancement of biodiversity and the ecological network, regeneration of the typical landscapes of wetlands (re-wetland) that represent the memory of territory.