Policies for industrial settlements: a new model of ecologically equipped area

Industrial ecologically equipped area model (APEA) has a key role to consolidate and attract businesses with a high level of technological content and, on the other hand, to contrast an indiscriminate occupational situation in productive areas based on logistics and heavy industry, which has a low added value and great environmental impact. In fact APEA is the expression of a selective, qualified policy for government of settlement policies for production that are based on adequate policies of environmental compensation and equalization. APEA model aims to developed innovation in production, strengthening research and development already carried out by leading companies in the territory, focusing attention and using available resources to save energy and concentrate on renewable sources as an opportunity for a wide range of innovations not only linked to the energy field, by also to production processes, the civil sector and transport.