Collaborative landscape governance. Experiences of landscape and environmental decision-making, a profitable confrontation between local administrations and bottom-up practices

Abstract

The range of cases in which participation tools are used in decision-making processes related to urban and territorial regeneration, has been enriched in recent years by episodes of considerable interest. These episodes have often given shape to innovative governance tools for managing change processes that involve landscape and environmental values. In some cases, the involvement of different stakeholders has itself originated from bottom-up instances and processes, which administrations have been able to intercept by paying particular attention to citizen involvement. Referring to three specific experiences, it emerges that these actions, from an operational perspective, prioritize the need to address issues related to climate change, promote the restructuring of spatial characteristics and mode of use of parts of cities and territories and focus attention on environmental health as a necessary condition to foster the health and prosperity of communities.