Some operational advice for reducing hydraulic risk and for protecting biodiversity and the landscape in riparian areas - river corridor

This paper synthetizes, although within the limits of Italian spatial planning perspective, the enormous opportunities emerging from the application of complex forms of knowledge for the benefit of water culture, especially at the present time of significant climate changes, that is for the purpose of stimulating proper cultural behaviors of the inhabitants in terms of water. The implementation of tools of participatory democracy, as set forth for example in the River Contracts, for governing the territory, soil, water, biodiversity, landscape and existing historical and architectural heritage, gives rise to the awareness that the land is a common good. Even starting with minor land disputes, inhabitants and manufacturers regain the awareness of place and this environmental understanding is useful for overcoming, reducing and settling conflicts between different uses of resources - the common goods, starting with water. As an example, this paper sets out the synthesis of the ecohydrological results of the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research carried out to support preparations of the Environmental Plan for the Adige Park in the meander of the River Adige immediately downstream of the city of Verona, Italy. It aims to demonstrate how, through active participation of the population, the protection and renewal of the natural, cultural, historical, and environmental landscape qualities existing there as a whole, together with the sustainable management of the river flow for the protection of biodiversity and of the river's self-purifying capacity have been achieved.