Il Contratto di fiume come progetto strategico e integrato di paesaggio. Una sperimentazione nel territorio della Val di Pesa

Abstract

River Agreements (CdF), voluntary tools that bring together stakeholders within a river basin around shared objectives of territorial regeneration, can serve as instruments for integrated policies, supporting ecological transition and climate change adaptation through a transformational adaptation approach. Despite their innovative potential, their implementation faces challenges due to their intersectoral, negotiated, and strategic nature. The development of the CdF for the Pesa stream (Tuscany) – in which the author is involved as coordinator of a memorandum of understanding for DIDA-Unifi – has highlighted innovations that may enhance operational capacity. Among these, is the framing of the CdF as a “regional landscape project” (a strategic instrument of the regional landscape plan) currently under experimentation. This approach, potentially transferable to other contexts by linking CdF to existing regional strategic planning tools, could help overcome current limitations.