For decades it was built in Liguria cheerfully, with no brake, realizing along the coast, construction everywhere, even on the beds of streams, while inland the abandonment of traditional activities was be less maintenance for centuries. In this region edificatoria these activities have not yet stopped, rather it was decided to launch a House plan that would not even have to see the light in a region like ours, and indeed some would still change in the permissive sense.
Now these flaws were covered by a climatically favorable period until a few years ago, but today that, moreover, has exceeded all limits, the tropicalization climate with heavy rains resulting disaster brings out the hydrogeological Ligure in all its gravity.
First you have to give back to the rivers and streams floodable areas of Liguria: It is with further destabilizing and destructive actions such as dredging, wondered aloud at Magra, Entella and other small waterways of Liguria, or the clearcutting vegetation along the banks of the problems that are fixed, but with the recovery of alluvial areas that would further reduce it instead to acquire new building space, and the renaturation and recovery of eco-hydro-geological balance.
The disasters that have captured both the coast and the hinterland cementified that instead dropped us to understand that it is time to change the registry. In the first place a moratorium on the building needs to be done by launching City Urban Planning zero impact on the example of Cassinetta Lugagnano: in this sense we must renew the Landscape Plan strictly, and introduce, finally, a Law on Strategic Environmental Assessment, strict , whereas the same is held in the drawer waiting to find a way to soften to not make life too difficult for the municipal administrations eager to rake in infrastructure costs, you also need to change habits and patterns of mobility, seen that the construction of new roads also decreases the absorption capacity of soil water.
Secondly, it is time to devise a plan for maintenance of the hinterland that is respectful of ecosystems, and especially that it is not calibrated on emergencies with major work and major environmental impact, but is set to the selected intervention which do not identify the enemy in natural vegetation: for example, the undergrowth is not "dirt" to eradicate, as claimed by some popular ignorance, to make the wood as clean as were the ancient varieties of chestnut, but it is a key element in mitigating the fall of rain and to keep the descent of the water downstream.
is clear that when it comes to maintenance, it must pass the strings and wires due to private property, often accomplished by people who, after two or three generations of neglect, even know they own: so that the region needs to work towards the substitutive powers of public bodies to intervene on such land owners complain that the cost, of course.
The President of Liguria Legambiente Stefano Sarti
The Head of hydrogeological Legambiente Liguria Alessandro Poletti
