ABSTRACT

The contribution explores the importance of a territorial regeneration or reconstruction approach through the use of strategies based on the application of natural systems (Nature-Based Solutions) following a calamitous event. In Italy, as in many countries of the world, we continuously experience disastrous events that afflict cities, small villages and the territory in general, just think of the earthquake that hit central Italy in 2016, the Emilia-Romagna earthquake in 2012, or the repeated floods of cities or peri-urban areas due to climate change that cause torrential rains, rise in temperature, rise in the level of rivers and streams in such a way that water and mud escape from their banks and flood the built and non-built landscape. Events of this magnitude cause the loss of human life and environmental and social balance, as well as substantially modify the inhabited area and the landscape.