Ecological networks in the spatial planning of Campania region. Towards Green Infrastructures

Eco-Planning thinks nature not only as an object of consumption and/or exclusive aesthetic enjoyment but recovers and focuses on its role as a provider of vital resources and as a mitigator of imbalances induced by uncontrolled human development. The inclusion of the Ecological Network paradigm in the spatial planning allows to design territory in an integrated way, without neglecting, on the contrary, to start from the areas of interference between anthropic and natural flows. Within this approach the EN represents the location of protection, rehabilitation, implementation of the natural space in anthropized contexts, contrasting land consumption and environmental fragmentation. The paper focuses on the analysis of the role played by EN in the planning forecasts of three spatial plans in force in Campania Region. The Regional and Provincial Ecological Networks within Campania Region Territorial Plan, Caserta and Salerno Provinces Territorial Coordination Plans will be studied and compared. The principal aim is to highlight the strategic guidelines and the prescriptions to the Communal Urban Plans to implement Municipal Ecological Network and Green Infrastructure at local scale. In a sustainable city scenario EN and the more complex GI should be considered of strategic importance for growth/development/ transformation/regeneration, in the same way as grey infrastructures [1], their recognition, protection, environmental regeneration, implementation at various scales represents a real possibility both to mitigate the effects in the short term and to affect the causes in the long one.