Methods for Sustainable landscape Design
(Prof. Angelo Aru with Daniele Tomasi PhD, Massimiliano Orrù PhD)
Throughout human existence, communities have always utilized the environment to reap benefits of various kinds. With the onset of industry, human activities were often performed through the savage exploitation of the environment, disregarding conservation policy, leading, in many case, to the deterioration and loss of natural resources. Over the past decades in industrialized areas, society has gained awareness of the environment’s fragility and sensitivity, trying to recover critical situations, planning resource use, enhancing conservation through sustainable land use. All such activities must necessarily be preceded by detailed and multidisciplinary studies that investigate and quantify environmental characteristics and assets addressed in all of their natural and man-made aspects (historic, architectural, cultural, socioeconomic, etc). Through these studies the many types of landscapes present in a specific area can be defined, thus sustaining the planning of its rational use and correct preservation. It is with this point of view that the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cagliari was commissioned to carry out this research project by the Sardinia Regional Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Landscape. During 2005, the Department studied Sardinia’s landscape, defining a methodology for recognizing and identifying the geopedological components and the agricultural landscapes of the island’s principal agro - pastoral regions.
Download: La progettazione sostenibile del paesaggio.pdf