Ecological continuity at the urban fringe: The landscape of the area north-east of Naples and the Somma Vesuvio

The research proposal is based on the need for an integrated and complex model of landscape management focused on a multisectorial tools as well as on an approach to the governance of the mediterranean metropolitan region whose priority would be the non negotiable and sustainable management of natural resource base, with particulare reference to water and soil. The study areas is located on south east of Neaples. This is a very hight environmental risk areas as it is comprised of both intensive residential settlements and industrial plans as well as heavy infrastructures. The research rational aims to the encouragement of both system diversity and complexity as its appears as the only ecological and politically sound opinion.