Conference – The integrated restoration of reclamation canals
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The conference, organized few months after the start of the Project, focused on the situation, focusing on the issues of the reclamation drainage network restoration, its problems, the strategies chosen to address them and the decisive role it has participation and sharing of objectives by local stakeholders. The event was a first opportunity to compare and exchange knowledge with other important European Projects, Universities and Professionals.
Works were opened by Simona Caselli (Councilor for Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing, Emilia-Romagna Region) and Marino Zani (President of the Central Emilia Reclamation Consortium), who brought the greetings from the Administration and Emphasized the importance of projects such as LIFE RINASCE for the territory, while also recalling the importance of organic and rational water management.
After a short presentation of the speakers and topics discussed at the conference, the word passed to Walter Baricchi (Freelance Professional), which illustrated the characteristics of the plain rural territory (understood as a complex system, resulting in its current structure of a historical stratification of the human activities that took in the territory), focusing in particular on the relationship between the characteristic agricultural landscapes and reclamations realized in the plain.
The following technical intervention by Alessandro Alessandrini, representing the Institute for Artistic, Cultural and Environmental Heritage, has focused on the peculiarities of spontaneous flora in the plain, which presents the highest biodiversity in the region.
The second part of the conference was more focused on the LIFE RINASCE Project.
Aronne Ruffini (Head of Environment Office of Central Emilia Land Reclamation Consortium) explained the project's activities, and Marco Monaci (Freelance Designer) presented more in detail the present issues and the innovative strategies that will lead to typologies of Experimental intervention on the channels identified in the project.
Monica Guida (Head of the Soil Protection, Coast and Land Reclamation Service, Emilia-Romagna Region) has therefore presented the connotations of the recent LIFE projects that saw the fruitful collaboration between the Region and the Consortium.
Bruno Boz (CIRF, Italian Centre for River Restoration) has finally described some interesting examples of River Restoration in Europe.
The work was concluded with a discussion of the topics discussed.
The event had a good attendance (over 80 overall attendance), involving Local Area Technical Officers, freelancers, representatives of associations, students and citizens.
Other public information events on the project are also planned, in particular meetings in the municipalities where the works will be carried out.
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Rural landscapes and reclamations in the Emilian plain (ITA) ( |
Walter Baricchi, Freelance Architect |
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Alessandro Alessandrini, Institute for Artistic, Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Emilia-Romagna Region |
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Environmental hydraulic restoration of drainage canals - Part 1 (ITA) ( |
Aronne Ruffini, Head of Environment Office of Central Emilia Land Reclamation Consortium |
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Environmental hydraulic restoration of drainage canals - Part 2 (ITA) ( |
Marco Monaci, Freelance Designer |
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Monica Guida, Head of the Soil Protection, Coast and Land Reclamation Service, Emilia-Romagna Region |
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The restoration of drainage canals in the Italian and European context (ITA) ( |
Bruno Boz, CIRF (Italian Centre for River Restoration) |