Guidelines and management tools: a case study

As it is well known land use in dense populated area is often characterized by competing and fast evolving industrial and agricultural activities introducing various elements of environmental stress that must be taken into account in every planning and management phase. In this work we discuss the application of a whole new integrated approach to the analysis of a quite strategic district in the Italy’s Pianura Padana, showing as the land use constraints and the related conflicts between the involved communities at different space-time scales, can be driven to solution and finally managed thanks to an increased diffuse knowledge and the implementation of innovative perception tools of the various stress elements, making possible the setup of a new guideline system, already implemented, and a higher environmental awareness.