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Environment and society are increasingly affected by human activity. World society must constantly face many problems such as climate change, air, water and soil pollutions, resources overuse, human rights, child labor, social inequalities, health and safety. Since companies are the most responsible actors for these troubles, they are stimulated to develop and adopt policies of sustainable development. Practices of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility are increasing within many businesses for reasons which go beyond the mere compliance with legislations and regulations. Nowadays, sustainable and responsible companies behave ethically for competitive reasons as well. The connections between sustainability and business strategy occurs through the pursuit of eco-socio-efficiencies, resources cost cutting, product-service differentiation, access to ethical funds, image and reputation, and the avoidance of fines, penalties and environmental taxes. Sustainability management occurs through a process that starts with identification of key stakeholders and the relative types of environmental or social impacts generated. Then, strategy must be developed, and communicated to all level of the organization. Leadership and commitment of top management are fundamental in order to diffuse sustainability guidelines, support the organizational structure and spread the new culture. In addition, performance measurement and management systems should drive the attainment of sustainability objectives. Environmental and social accounting systems must provide meaningful data in order to monitor the accomplishment of strategy and, at the same time, disclose the sustainability reports addressed to stakeholders. One important aspect of the process above mentioned regards the connection between strategy and performance measurement system. In order to translate sustainability strategies into actions measurable through performance indicators, it must be emphasized the support of Balanced Scorecard (BSC). The multidimensional conception of the tool advises to integrate environmental and social aspects of business activity within the four traditional perspectives of management in the BSC (financial, customers, processes, learning and growth). Therefore, the emerging concept of Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) is referred to the additional feature of considering the environmental and social issues connected directly or indirectly with the execution of the business processes and thus with economic success. Cause and effect relationships in the strategy map show the relations between better social and environmental performances with increasing competitiveness and profitability. The airline sector is facing many challenges of sustainable development. Hence the case developed about a real carrier can help to better understand the matter. The implementation of a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard in Lufthansa Passenger Airline consists in a simulation of the process that starts with the identification of stakeholders and related environmental and social impacts. Based on these exposures, sustainability strategies are developed and formalized as several strategic objectives belonging to the different perspectives of SBSC. Afterwards, for each sustainability objective, numerous key performance indicators are developed in order to monitor single operative aspects related to the achievement of objectives. Finally, the construction of strategy map makes clear how sustainability performances are connected with financial ones. In conclusion, the analysis of environmental, social and economic performances achieved by the German carrier and the comparison with direct European competitor Air France KLM and other minor competitors helps to identify the successes and criticisms deriving from sustainability purposes.

The Italian municipalities have taken only the first steps on the road to smart cities. By 2020 thanks to the European Community and the Mayors agreement in 2008, cities aiming to be smart (for energy management,transport, digital technologies, social policy) will focus on sustainable development, by innovations and adequate partners. The general goal of resource saving and use of renewable energy has become a strategic necessity, fully involving architecture, whose environmental load in industrialized countries has become unsustainable. The national regulatory framework is constantly evolving, because the new European Directive 31/2010/CE, repealing the E.D. 91/2002/CE, obliges from January 2021 energy consumption close to zero for all new buildings. Objectives can only be achieved with the contribution of all actors of the building process and the use of effective tools for management and control of environmental quality, associated with the construction activity. Within this framework planning and building tools are essential, whose regulatory strategies are also activated at the regional scale. In Italy, many regions have begun to address the problem, for which there is a wide range of regional regulations and building regulation (R.E.) where sustainability criteria were introduced, assigning volume premiums or economic incentives, aimed at promoting the reduction of energy consumption. The paper presents the first results of the research, aimed to produce guidelines, useful for eco-building regulations, for the Sicilian regional context, such as basic regulation instruments of constructive activity, oriented towards sustainability, with the support of environmental assessment criteria. After a survey on the state of the more virtuous municipal building regulations, the energy and environmental legislation, the good practices such as eco-districts, it was possible to define the framework of parameters characterizing on which elaborating the building intervention, with high energy and environmental significance, the sustainable and interested thematic areas, aims, actions and possible interventions.

Geographical considerations regarding the disaster management in L'Aquila The aim of the paper is to shed light on disaster management and housing practices after the L'Aquila earthquake on 6th April 2009. After a brief introduc-tion regarding disaster management and housing issues, the Author analyzes post disaster strategies enacted by Italian Government and Civil Protection in L'Aquila. Particularly, the Author describes the new earthquake-proof building project for recovering evacuees, called C.A.S.E. project, and he proposes some reflections about the future reuse of these buildings after the end of emergen-cy period. Finally, the paper seeks to emphasize the necessity of integrating the complexes of the C.A.S.E. project in the economic, social and environmental context of the city of L'Aquila. Keywords L'Aquila, disaster management, earthquake, post emergency period.Réflexions géographiques sur le disaster management à L'Aquila L'objectif de cet article est de décrire les procédures de gestion du désastre après le tremblement de terre de L'Aquila du 6 avril 2009. Après une brève in-troduction sur la gestion de l'émergence, l'Auteur analyse les stratégies post-séisme adoptés à L'Aquila par le Gouvernement Italien et par la Protection Civile. L'Auteur s'arrête notamment sur les nouveaux projets de constructions antisis-miques destinées aux évacués, appelé projet C.A.S.E., et il propose quelques réflexions sur l'éventuelle réutilisation de ces structures. Enfin, l'article cherche à rappeler la nécessité de compléter les complexes du projet C.A.S.E. dans le conteste environnemental, économique et social de la ville de L'Aquila.Mots-clés L'Aquila, gestion des catastrophes, période successive à l'émergence, tremble-ment de terre.

Political institutions play a significant role in the logic of environmental sustainability, in particular for the contribution they can make to the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement for a global action plan aimed at limiting global warming to well below 2°C. Municipal governments can develop specific actions and initiatives that can considerably foster a local sustainable development, where the dialogue and cooperation between political and socio-economic actors become a key element. For municipalities, an effective way for supporting the Local Agenda 21 projects and environmental performance improvement is derived from the introduction of a systemic approach for environmental management. By implementing an environmental management system (EMS), municipalities not only can improve the management effectiveness and efficiency, but they can also meet their legal obligations specifically related to the development of local environmental policies and action plans, and improve the transparency to the public about the natural environment quality and environmental protection initiatives. The integration of an Energy Management System (EnMS) can strengthen the actions for a continuous improvement of energy efficiency and, consequently, the attainment of specific energy saving targets in line with the national energy saving targets. The focus of the present paper is aimed at defining the possible actions needed to integrate an EnMS into an implemented and certified EMS. The results of a step-by-step analysis carried out by taking into account the case study of the Municipality of Udine are here presented.

Prospects for Africa's adjustment and growth in a democratic order; general and regional perspectives; 13 articles. Summary in English p. 277-80. Includes discussion of priorities in agriculture, environmental management, and human rights protection.

The last decades have witnessed a significant increase in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) of all shapes and sizes. UAS are finding many new applications in supporting several human activities, offering solutions to many dirty, dull, and dangerous missions, carried out by military and civilian users. However, limited access to the airspace is the principal barrier to the realization of the full potential that can be derived from UAS capabilities. The aim of this thesis is to support the safe integration of UAS operations, taking into account both the user's requirements and flight regulations. The main technical and operational issues, considered among the principal inhibitors to the integration and wide-spread acceptance of UAS, are identified and two solutions for safe UAS operations are proposed: A. Improving navigation performance of UAS by exploiting low-cost sensors. To enhance the performance of the low-cost and light-weight integrated navigation system based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) inertial sensors, an efficient calibration method for MEMS inertial sensors is required. Two solutions are proposed: 1) The innovative Thermal Compensated Zero Velocity Update (TCZUPT) filter, which embeds the compensation of thermal effect on bias in the filter itself and uses Back-Propagation Neural Networks to build the calibration function. Experimental results show that the TCZUPT filter is faster than the traditional ZUPT filter in mapping significant bias variations and presents better performance in the overall testing period. Moreover, no calibration pre-processing stage is required to keep measurement drift under control, improving the accuracy, reliability, and maintainability of the processing software; 2) A redundant configuration of consumer grade inertial sensors to obtain a self-calibration of typical inertial sensors biases. The result is a significant reduction of uncertainty in attitude determination. In conclusion, both methods improve dead-reckoning performance for handling intermittent GNSS coverage. B. Proposing novel solutions for mission management to support the Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system in monitoring and coordinating the operations of a large number of UAS. Two solutions are proposed: 1) A trajectory prediction tool for small UAS, based on Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) Neural Networks. By exploiting flight data collected when the UAS executes a pre-assigned flight path, the tool is able to predict the time taken to fly generic trajectory elements. Moreover, being self-adaptive in constructing a mathematical model, LVQ Neural Networks allow creating different models for the different UAS types in several environmental conditions; 2) A software tool aimed at supporting standardized procedures for decision-making process to identify UAS/payload configurations suitable for any type of mission that can be authorized standing flight regulations. The proposed methods improve the management and safe operation of large-scale UAS missions, speeding up the flight authorization process by the UTM system and supporting the increasing level of autonomy in UAS operations.

The characteristics of the Calabrian landscapes are of such consistency as to form a supporting, structural system for any future configuration of the territory. These are landscapes resulting from traditions and cultural values such as woods, lakes and mountain, offering significant spaces still uncontaminated or in a phase of growth, where lack of vigilance or an incorrect planning policy could create serious consequences.They constitute a living laboratory from which we can draw all the necessary applications for human health and where some prominent places represent the cornerstones of land planning. Moreover, the natural elements of attraction are an incentive and a stimulus for a quality tourism, with all the resulting benefits for the local community.To develop a different model of development based on sustainability of interventions and heritage preservation, a good management strategy (maintenance) is needed that combines land development and environmental protection correctly. The target to pursue is one of triggering strategic processes of transformation together with a proper maintenance policy which, relying on the integrity of the landscapes, will attract conscious tourists able to appreciate the cultural offer and to practice activities compatible with the territory. ; Le caratteristiche dei paesaggi calabresi sono di tale spessore da costituire sistema portante e strutturante di qualsiasi futura configurazione di assetto del territorio. Sono paesaggi frutto di tradizioni e di valenze culturali come i boschi, gli insiemi lacustri e montani, che offrono notevoli spazi ancora non trasformati o in fase di crescita, ma sui quali una mancanza di controllo o una politica urbanistica errata potrebbero creare gravi conseguenze. Costituiscono un laboratorio vivente da cui è possibile trarre tutte le applicazioni necessarie alla salute dell'uomo e dove i luoghi cospicui rappresentano i capisaldi della pianificazione del territorio. Inoltre, gli elementi naturali di richiamo sono un incentivo e uno stimolo ...

L'impermeabilizzazione delle superfici determina un'alterazione del sistema idrologico, con un incremento dei volumi e dei picchi dei deflussi delle acque meteoriche. Il fenomeno è destinato a progredire, sia per il contributo che vi deriva dalla costante crescita delle superfici urbanizzate (urban sprawl), sia per i cambiamenti climatici in atto, che accentuano la frequenza delle piogge critiche. Una serie di misure e tecniche (Best Management Practices, BMPs) sono state sviluppate per la gestione sostenibile delle acque meteoriche urbane. Alcune BMPs (es: verde pensile, bacini di detenzione/ritenzione, zone umide) possono svolgere inoltre una funzione ecologica (divenendo habitat per specie animali e vegetali), di termoregolazione, estetica e di promozione del capitale sociale. È quindi necessario sperimentare metodologie di progettazione e gestione del verde urbano e periurbano, la cui multifunzionalità consente di perseguire la strada della sostenibilità ambientale. Su tale traccia, questo lavoro presenta un percorso metodologico orientato a valutare alcune strategie integrate di controllo dei deflussi urbani, attraverso l'aumento della permeabilità di alcune parti sensibili di città. Il verde, quindi, non è visto come semplice infrastruttura necessaria a soddisfare generici standard urbanistici, ma ne sono analizzate le funzionalità, in questa prima fase di carattere idrologico, ma che, in prospettiva, con la stessa armatura verde, esso può assumere un ruolo ecologico, sociale, di mitigazione del clima e di emissione di gas clima-alteranti. ; Urbanisation phenomena, associated with soil sealing, can lead to an increase in surface runoff, environmental pollution and ecosystems degradation with risks to human health and economic losses by floods. Then, new urban development strategies and land management models are essential. The European Union Water Framework Directive (2000) requires Member States to draw up efficient measures to ensure sustainable use of water resources. Several Best Management Practices (BMPs) were developed at this aim. BMPs are usually multifunctional structures (e.g. wetland and green roofs) that can provide suitable Habitat for species and bring to the maintenance of biodiversity, allow climate regulation by evaporation and adsorption of solar radiation together with aesthetic/amenity, recreational and educational benefits, enhancing the urban quality of life and social interaction. However, especially in Italy, the full integration of BMPs in territorial planning and urban (re-) design is not fully realized yet. The control of water quality and quantity has often been realized by isolated and localized interventions (e.g. detention/infiltration basins) without a "smart" and systemic project based on a holistic environmental sustainability concept. Through an application of a synthetic index for urban permeability assessment (RIE Index), this paper presents a systemic approach to urban green planning to reduce surface runoff in a pilot area of Bari city, increasing soil permeability and reducing hydraulic risk. This green and sustainable stormwater management approach would be able to furnish environmental benefits and services to the citizens, enhancing quality of life in urban contexts.

L'impermeabilizzazione delle superfici determina un'alterazione del sistema idrologico, con un incremento dei volumi e dei picchi dei deflussi delle acque meteoriche. Il fenomeno è destinato a progredire, sia per il contributo che vi deriva dalla costante crescita delle superfici urbanizzate (urban sprawl), sia per i cambiamenti climatici in atto, che accentuano la frequenza delle piogge critiche. Una serie di misure e tecniche (Best Management Practices, BMPs) sono state sviluppate per la gestione sostenibile delle acque meteoriche urbane. Alcune BMPs (es: verde pensile, bacini di detenzione/ritenzione, zone umide) possono svolgere inoltre una funzione ecologica (divenendo habitat per specie animali e vegetali), di termoregolazione, estetica e di promozione del capitale sociale. È quindi necessario sperimentare metodologie di progettazione e gestione del verde urbano e periurbano, la cui multifunzionalità consente di perseguire la strada della sostenibilità ambientale. Su tale traccia, questo lavoro presenta un percorso metodologico orientato a valutare alcune strategie integrate di controllo dei deflussi urbani, attraverso l'aumento della permeabilità di alcune parti sensibili di città. Il verde, quindi, non è visto come semplice infrastruttura necessaria a soddisfare generici standard urbanistici, ma ne sono analizzate le funzionalità, in questa prima fase di carattere idrologico, ma che, in prospettiva, con la stessa armatura verde, esso può assumere un ruolo ecologico, sociale, di mitigazione del clima e di emissione di gas clima-alteranti. ; Urbanisation phenomena, associated with soil sealing, can lead to an increase in surface runoff, environmental pollution and ecosystems degradation with risks to human health and economic losses by floods. Then, new urban development strategies and land management models are essential. The European Union Water Framework Directive (2000) requires Member States to draw up efficient measures to ensure sustainable use of water resources. Several Best Management Practices (BMPs) were developed at this aim. BMPs are usually multifunctional structures (e.g. wetland and green roofs) that can provide suitable Habitat for species and bring to the maintenance of biodiversity, allow climate regulation by evaporation and adsorption of solar radiation together with aesthetic/amenity, recreational and educational benefits, enhancing the urban quality of life and social interaction. However, especially in Italy, the full integration of BMPs in territorial planning and urban (re-) design is not fully realized yet. The control of water quality and quantity has often been realized by isolated and localized interventions (e.g. detention/infiltration basins) without a "smart" and systemic project based on a holistic environmental sustainability concept. Through an application of a synthetic index for urban permeability assessment (RIE Index), this paper presents a systemic approach to urban green planning to reduce surface runoff in a pilot area of Bari city, increasing soil permeability and reducing hydraulic risk. This green and sustainable stormwater management approach would be able to furnish environmental benefits and services to the citizens, enhancing quality of life in urban contexts.

Human resource management (HRM) has an important responsibility in supporting higher levels of business sustainability development (BSD). In the past decade, traditional strategic HRM focused on economic goals has been supplemented by environmental and social imperatives, framing a new approach called sustainable HRM (SHRM). My research addresses HRM and sustainability linkages. Little research has been carried out on how human resource (HR) professionals' roles can fit with a spectrum of levels of BSD. In addition, the communication of HRM supporting sustainability has been explored privileging a quantitative approach. I argue that the relationship can be understood in a complementary way through qualitative and temporal analysis and that different scientific paradigms are needed to enrich the knowledge. The research is structured as a collection of three scientific articles. First, three typologies of HRM professionals' roles for three levels of BSD are built grounded on roles and paradox theories through a methodological roadmap expressing inherently paradoxical roles and mindsets. This first article is based on a post-positivist, functionalist and universalist approaches. Secondly, a visual rhetoric analysis of photographs in sustainability reports is conducted in a single case study to interpret the messages embedded in the disclosure of the relationship of HRM and sustainability. Finally, the analysis is complemented by a temporal visual rhetoric analysis, which enables us to identify the themes of capabilities, relationships, vulnerability, happiness and national identity that go beyond the standardization of annual reports. The dynamic analysis suggests that the evolution of the disclosure is dependent on contingency in contradiction with sustainability commitment. The second and third articles are underpinned on a subjectivist, constructivist and contextual approach. This research concludes that there is a need to update the HRM roles for BSD and that the relationship between HRM and sustainability is the result of ideologies, contextual and contingent features that are hidden in visual artefacts. My significant contribution to the knowledge is that this research expands the SHRM approach by adopting functionalist and constructivist paradigms, as well as offering methodologies for typology building, unique visual rhetoric procedure and temporal analysis, bridging macro and organizational levels. It raises unexpected issues such as organizational myth making, legitimation of practices, and political and colonial heritages for discussion among practitioners, corporate governance and policy makers. This research illuminates the need to work simultaneously in normative and interpretative perspectives of mindsets to advance in a SHRM approach for the good of the planet.

Il lavoro prende parte al dibattito scientifico su quali siano le più corrette modalità di attuazione del concetto di "sviluppo sostenibile". Attraverso l'applicazione dell'approccio coevolutivo allo studio condotto a Santiago del Cile, abbiamo cercato di rispondere alle seguenti domande: 1) Quali sono i problemi ambientali locali e quali le relative ripercussioni sociali? 2) Quali sono gli strumenti a disposizione delle municipalità locali per risolverli? 3) Quali strumenti vengono realmente impiegati e quali le ripercussioni sociali del loro utilizzo? ; The work takes part in the scientific debate about the most correct ways to affect the sustainable development concept. Through the coevolutive approach application to Santiago case (Chile) we tried to answer following questions: 1) what are local environmental problems and what are their social repercussions? 2) What are instruments in the local municipalities hands in order to resolve them? 3) Which instruments are really employed and what are social repercussions from their use?

In recent years the need to reduce global energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the environment, has been involved even in the railways sector, aimed at the highly competitive concept of new vehicles/transportation systems. The requirements hoped by the operating companies, particularly as concerns tramway and metro-train systems, are increasingly focused on products with so far advanced features in terms of energy and environmental impact. In order to accomplish this possible scenario, this could be put into effects in technological subsystems and critical components, which are able to fulfill not only functional and performance requirements, but also regarding the new canons of energy saving. On the other hand, the regional and national energetic political strategies impose a continuous effort in the eco-sustainability and energy saving direction both for the vehicles and for the infrastructure management. In this scenario, the thesis aims to fill the gap in the technical literature and deals with improving the energy efficiency of urban rail transport systems by proposing both design methodologies and effective control strategies for supercapacitor-based energy storage systems, to be installed on-board urban rail vehicles or along the rail track. Firstly, a deep, rigorous and comprehensive study on the factors which affect energy issues in a DC-electrified urban transit railway system is carried out. Then a widespread overview of the currently available strategies and technologies for recovery and management of braking energy in urban rail is presented, also by providing an assessment of their main advantages and disadvantages alongside a list of the most relevant scientific studies and well established commercial solutions. Afterwards, some effective control strategies for the optimal energy management of the supercapacitor-based energy storage system have been studied. Extensive simulations have been performed with the aim of validating the proposed techniques by employing a methodology which is based on tests carried out by means of scale models of the real systems. A wide range of experimental tests has been developed and carried out on a laboratory-scale simulator for a typical urban service railway vehicle, in order to fully confirm the theoretical performances, validity, and feasibility of the studied controls, and quantify the technical and economic advantages obtained in terms of global energy saving, voltage regulation, power compensation and infrastructure power loss reduction. The overall goal of this study is to gain an understanding of the methods and approaches for assessing the use of supercapacitor storage systems in urban rail transit oriented to the optimization of the energy saving and the reduction of the vehicle energy consumption, for whatever technological solutions are adopted.

Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze, tecnologie e biotecnologie per la sostenibilità ; La VAS, nell'intenzione del legislatore europeo, è stata prevista come uno strumento di supporto al processo decisionale e in quanto tale è applicabile ad una molteplicità di piani e programmi al fine del loro più efficace orientamento alla sostenibilità ambientale. La messa a punto del processo di valutazione ambientale strategica consente di giovare delle ricadute positive che il piano o programma avrà su quel determinato territorio. L'obiettivo della ricerca è quello di far comprendere quale importanza assuma il processo di valutazione ambientale strategica nell'indirizzare alla sostenibilità ambientale un piano o un programma, contrariamente al modo in cui è stata in molti casi intesa, spesso semplicemente come mero adempimento burocratico/amministrativo privo di ricadute sul territorio cui quel piano o programma è indirizzato. Gli aspetti peculiari del processo applicati alla tipologia dei piani di gestione forestale evidenziano come il fatto di non aver compreso fino in fondo l'impatto positivo che ha sul territorio l'attuazione di tale processo da parte delle Regioni, ha determinato una mancata occasione in termini di ricadute positive sullo stesso territorio. Nell'esaminare le azioni e gli obiettivi che si prefigge un piano forestale generale emerge in modo chiaro che le azioni e gli obiettivi indicati nel rapporto ambientale dei diversi piani forestali generali puntano a valorizzare ogni possibile intervento, finalizzandolo al raggiungimento di un livello di sostenibilità ambientale sempre più alto. Le fasi della valutazione, infatti, impongono che l'attività in questione sia effettuata come un'analisi degli effetti potenziali di quel determinato piano/programma sul territorio. L'obiettivo che il progetto di ricerca si pone, infatti, non è semplicemente quello di analizzare lo stato dell'arte rispetto al recepimento della direttiva in generale ed in particolare l'attuazione in Italia sia a livello nazionale che regionale, ma soprattutto quello di evidenziare il ruolo decisivo che assume la valutazione ambientale strategica nell'ambito della pianificazione e dove trova fondamento questo ruolo, cercando di far comprendere il motivo per cui la mancata valutazione costituisca un'occasione persa per quel territorio e per le comunità che vi abitano. L'approccio metodologico da seguire potrebbe essere quelle di avviare un Tavolo permanente sulle tematiche Foresta e Ambiente fra tutti i soggetti interessati e coinvolti nel processo di VAS (che deve essere strutturato in maniera più articolata rispetto a quello allo stato previsto, in modo tale che possa godere di poteri operativi e di indirizzo che siano più incisivi sul territorio), un confronto che, partendo dalla normativa vigente, a livello nazionale ed anche regionale, individui delle "best-practices" da utilizzare come modello per ogni tipologia di piano/programma. ; The SEA in the intention of the European legislator has been planned as a decision support tool, and as such applicable to a variety of plans and programs in order of their most effective approach to environmental sustainability. The development of the strategic environmental assessment process can impact positively and allows the benefit of the positive effects that the plan or program will have on that particular territory. The aim of this research project is to make it clear that the strategic environmental assessment process has to address a plan or a program to environmental sustainability. This is contrary to the way in which Vas has in many cases been understood, as a mere bureaucratic and administrative performance without any impact on the area where the plan or program is addressed. In particular, if we consider the peculiar aspects of the process applied to the type of forest management plans, it shows a failure and the loss of positive results on the territory, as it was not understood the positive impact that the implementation of this process by the Regions has on the territory. The result is the loss of positive impacts on the territory. When examining the actions and objectives of a general forest plan, it is clear that the actions and goals set out in the environmental report of the different forest management plans are aimed at enhancing every possible action, to achieve an ever higher level of environmental sustainability. The evaluation steps, in fact, require that the strategic assessment activity is carried out as an analysis of the potential effects of that particular plan on the territory. The goal of the research project is not merely to analyze the state of the art in relation to the transposition of the Directive in general and, in particular, at national and regional level in Italy, but to highlight the decisive role that the planning takes on the strategic environmental assessment and where this role is based, trying to explain why the evaluation is a good opportunity not to be missed for that area and for the communities that live there. The activities conducted made it possible to identify priorities and to highlight the critical nodes in the network of the governance of the territory, as a method to approach effective environmental assessment procedures. The methodological approach to follow would be to start a Permanent Table on Forestry and Environment issues among all stakeholders and involved in the SEA, a comparison that starts from current legislation, not just at national level but also regional, best-practices individuals to use as a model for each type of p/p. The methodological approach to follow could be to start a permanent Table on the themes of the Forest and the Environment issues among all the subjects involved in the Strategic Environmental Assessment process, a comparison starting from the current legislation, both at national and regional level, to find best-practices to use as a template for each type of p/p.