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Dr. Emilio Padoa-Schioppa - Italy

Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e del Territorio
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza 1 – 20126 Milano
emilio.padoaschioppa@unimib.it


Landscape ecology: a local strategy to environment protection

The biodiversity conservation needs a cooperative approach with local populations: experiences carried out in different part of the world demonstrated that a conservation project done against local inhabitants will probably (or certainly) fail. This basic principle of conservation biology suggest the paradigm “think globally and act locally”. Landscape ecology, because his historic development, is the ecology’s branch that try to approach ecological system with a multiscalar approach and that underline the importance to study both positive and negative relationship between man and environment. For this reasons landscape ecology may offer a strong theoretical background to actions for biodiversity conservation. The territorial ecological network paradigm (that comes also from landscape ecology principles) is one of the most useful conservation tool in man dominated landscapes.