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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. |
