Rinaturalizzare/reinventare/riparare: azioni paesaggistiche per il riuso del paesaggio estrattivo: il caso studio della nuova provincia BAT

Abstract

The mining activity has been an important driver of economic and productive development for the Apulia region, representing a land use inextricably linked to its historical and constituting tradition. In particular, the mining basin of the comprehensive province Barletta - Andria - Trani (BAT), north of Bari, is now undergoing a crisis and has been partly dismissed. However, it has always been an important driving force for the local economy of the region. The consequent problems associated with landscape modification and alteration, land use,waste and sludge proper disposal have never been sufficiently taken into account This paper aims to investigate a possible meeting point between the planning and the production processes, in order to identify recovery and recycling strategies, as well as identifying how to return the dismissed extraction sites their former uses, meanings and values by proactively activating virtuous processes capable of triggering a better landscape management on the one hand and, on the other hand, the necessary innovation of the mining management system, allowing it to be a territorial resource again. Starting from the act of initiating the PTCP (Provincial Territorial Coordination Plan), attentive to the recovery of exhausted quarries and abandoned, we have tried to define a methodological and design, in which the assumption of regaining the exhausted quarries in the process of development sustainable land is, through actions of landscape rethought as the "3R" renaturalise, Reinvent, Repairing, policy proposals of territorial transformation can outline future scenarios for the region and for new life contexts. Operationally, through the instrument of the guidelines have been put in the system landscape of three actions in response to the issues that arise from the processes and ongoing conflicts as identified by the local projects of regional landscape, with the aim of thinking about the reuse of exhausted quarries for consolidate and enhance the characteristics of each context of life, and create new values and re-signification of places.