The Ecosystem Approach as an Environmental Risk Mitigation Instrument. An Application for the Evaluation of the «Xylella Case» Management. The environmental risk by human activities is the outcome of the ecosystem alteration and the territory management driven by competitive and speculative logics. The environmental risk mitigation requires, in addition to the knowledge of the environment, its level of criticality and the human impact, an approach that places at the centre the ecosystem and the territory. Therefore, we propose the ecosystem approach based on the scientific methodology as a mitigation and an evaluation instrument of the environmental risks and linked ecological and socioeconomic costs, in the ante operam, in progress and post operam phases. This approach applied to the «Xyella case» has allowed to verify as the management choices, that disagree with this approach, have produced very important territorial effects. However, because the “Xylella case” is in progress, we think that is possible reconsider the made choices in order to limit the human impacts, mitigate and reduce the linked risks.
Il rischio ambientale di matrice antropica è il risultato dell’alterazione dell’ecosistema e della gestione del territorio diretta da logiche competitive e di speculazione. La mitigazione del rischio ambientale richiede, dunque, oltre la conoscenza dell’ambiente, delle sue criticità e degli impatti antropici, un approccio che ponga al centro l’ecosistema e il territorio. Pertanto, si propone l’approccio ecosistemico su base scientifica come strumento di valutazione e mitigazione dei rischi ambientali e dei costi ecologici e socioeconomici connessi, in fase ante operam, in corso d’opera e post operam. Tale approccio è stato applicato al «caso Xylella» permettendo di verificare come le scelte di gestione se ne siano profondamente discostate producendo significativi effetti territoriali. Tuttavia, essendo il caso Xylella ancora in corso si ritiene che, alla luce di tale approccio, sia possibile operare una rivalutazione delle scelte adottate al fine di contenere gli impatti antropici, mitigare e ridurre i rischi connessi.
L’approccio ecosistemico come strumento di mitigazione del rischio ambientale. Un’applicazione per la valutazione della gestione del ‘caso Xylella’
Margherita Ciervo
2021-01-01
Abstract
The Ecosystem Approach as an Environmental Risk Mitigation Instrument. An Application for the Evaluation of the «Xylella Case» Management. The environmental risk by human activities is the outcome of the ecosystem alteration and the territory management driven by competitive and speculative logics. The environmental risk mitigation requires, in addition to the knowledge of the environment, its level of criticality and the human impact, an approach that places at the centre the ecosystem and the territory. Therefore, we propose the ecosystem approach based on the scientific methodology as a mitigation and an evaluation instrument of the environmental risks and linked ecological and socioeconomic costs, in the ante operam, in progress and post operam phases. This approach applied to the «Xyella case» has allowed to verify as the management choices, that disagree with this approach, have produced very important territorial effects. However, because the “Xylella case” is in progress, we think that is possible reconsider the made choices in order to limit the human impacts, mitigate and reduce the linked risks.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.