The current scope of work in the lab provides proof of concept for an emerging toolset that engages territorial landscape systems.
These distortions are also found in some territorial, landscape and tourist policies.
These experiments mostly concern regional or provincial administrative centres, and are usually adopted as variations shortly after the approval of territorial, landscape or local general plans.
Territorial, landscape and community level governance, such as traditional and customary governance models, is also extremely important to foster cooperation between stakeholders, maximising synergies while reducing or managing trade-offs.
A 2009 study of the territorial and landscape impacts of PV systems identifies impacts from landscape fragmentation, vegetation degradation, interference with flora and fauna as well as microclimatic change caused by the daytime warming of the surface of the solar array [3].
The growth of large cities often involves changes in territorial and landscape structures.
Consequently, the studies concerning the procedures for assessing the territorial and landscape impacts of this type of systems have recently seen a remarkable development.
The weak energy intensity of the solar source coupled with the low conversion efficiency of the photovoltaic cells, make the physical dimensions of such systems relevant and, with them, also the environmental, territorial and landscape impacts that basically depend on the physical extent of the system.
If it is well known that an incentive to the exploitation of renewable sources is one of the features of the policy of land conservation, including the one of the protected areas, at the same time the concerns of local communities and governments about the environmental, territorial and landscape impacts of this technology are increasing rapidly.
For further research, we will also integrate a few territorial and landscape-geographical aspects on a larger scale (e.g., a local scale) in order to compare them with those of the energy potentials.
As I said in my London book, it's a sort of territorial imperative, the landscape; the shape of the geology, almost, has a definite though not comprehended effect on human behaviour, human need.
