Summary
The CBRO purchased an area with the objective of managing both biodiversity and the resilience to natural hazards. The CBRO used EU-funding to finance the ecologically restoration of the area. Despite the financial supports envisioned a 20 years period, the CBRO decided not to change the land use destination of the area after the end of the period. This ensures a longstanding provision of environmental public goods, beyond the fixed policy terms. The case study is a successful example of a land tenure approach to environmental management, carried out by a collective/public association with funding from the EU. It is a small basin representative of the humid environments once present in the Ravenna plain, in an area with farms and factories between canals, after more than a couple of centuries of incessant reclamation. It is located in an interfluvial zone formed by more or less recent alluvial deposits, the site is characterised..
Objectives
- Biodiversity and resilience to natural hazards
Public Goods
Problem description
To conjugate the need of managing natural hazard (flood) around Conselice, and to re-establish many local species that have been driven away from their habitat, the consortium has decided to purchase private land for public objectives and used EU funds to ecologically restore the area.
