ABSTRACT

This chapter summarizes the illustration of the ‘Urban Environment Programme’, as worked out and featured in the Ten-Year Plan for the Environment presented by the Italian Minister of the Environment in a preliminary document in March 1992. The initiative of the Italian Minister of the Environment to work out a long-term plan for the environment was developed alongside analogous sets of documents worked out by other European and non-European governments. The environmental and territorial policy premises that underpin the elaboration of the Decamb Urban Environment Programme deserve to be quickly recounted. The identification in the territory of such ambits and of such suitable territorial units of potential urban-natural ecological equilibrium between human pressure and environmental protection constitutes the fundamental premise of a correct and lasting environmental policy. The Urban Environment Programme of the Ten-Year Plan for the Environment, made known by the Government in 1992, as yet has not had practical implementation.