Better Water Management for Advancing Resilient Communities in Europe<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Global climate change is leading to significant increase of temperature<\/strong> and intensification of extreme weather phenomena<\/strong>, with increasingly frequent heavy rainfall alternating with periods of lack of water. Strong rainfalls, floods, inundations, landslides and erosive phenomena have affected our country in a deep way in recent years and climate models tell us that these phenomena will appear in an increasingly intense way in the future<\/strong>. This situation is further intensified by the increasing consumption of soil and its progressive waterproofing, which compromises the effectiveness of the system of natural infiltration of water and has a negative impact on the services provided by nature (known by the term “ecosystem<\/em>“). Moreover, the progressive reduction of vegetation is contributing to the deterioration of the urban microclimate, significantly increasing temperatures in urban areas, a phenomenon known as the “heat island”.<\/h4>\nDespite this worrying situation, local administrations and communities are unprepared for such events and still unable to act to anticipate and mitigate their effects. For this reason, improving the safety and hydraulic resilience of the territory requires extensive and incisive actions of territorial and social planning, with the involvement of all the different stakeholders.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”90px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”obbiettivibeware” in_content_menu=”in_content_menu” content_menu_title=”Obiettivi BEWARE” content_menu_icon=”fa-angle-double-down” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”50″ z_index=””][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
The objectives of the project<\/h1>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The main objective of the project is to implement a strategy for adaptation to climate change<\/strong> and flood risk in urban and rural areas, through the active involvement of local communities<\/p>\nTo this end, the project aims to:[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”]
<\/p>\n\n- Activate a participatory process to identify plans and actions shared by the main stakeholders for the improvement of the hydraulic safety and resilience of the territory.<\/li>\n
- Implement Natural Water Retention Measures (NWRMs) with technical and demonstrative value, for hydraulic safety and good water resource management in urban and agricultural areas.<\/li>\n
- Propose information and raising awareness activities to promote an environmental culture and involve individuals in reducing the risk of flooding.<\/li>\n
- Create a regulatory framework and technical expertise conducive to the widespread deployment of NWRMs.<\/li>\n
- Promote the dissemination of the proposed initiatives, to become a virtuous model applicable in other Italian and European municipalities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nOn a more general level, BEWARE<\/strong> acts within the framework of European policies for adapting cities to climate change and aims to raise awareness on the objectives of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, in particular objectives 11, “Sustainable Cities and Municipalities”, and 13, “Combating Climate Change”.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”90px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”partnerbeware” in_content_menu=”in_content_menu” content_menu_title=”Partner BEWARE” content_menu_icon=”fa-angle-double-down” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1559661042088{background-color: #ecf8fe !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nThe Partners<\/h1>\n
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\n\t\n\n\t \n Municipality of Santorso <\/span>\n<\/span>\n\n \n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n\n \n [vc_column_text]Santorso is a Municipality of Altovicentino, located on the slopes of Monte Summano, in a vast area between the Alps and the Po Valley. Despite its small size – it has about 6,000 inhabitants – the Municipality is the leader of several projects at national and European level, particularly in the social field, the enhancement of the territory and in that of environmental sustainability.<\/p>\nThe commitment in this specific field was born in 2007 when the Administration, in collaboration with the Veneto Region and some local authorities, started the Provincial Environmental Education Laboratory. In 2014, the City Council approved the Action Plan for Sustainable Energy (www.santorsosostenibile.it) after having adopted, in 2012, the strategic vision “Santorso 2020”. The administration is strongly committed to the issues of renewable energy, with attention to the construction of paths of participation of citizens. In 2015, starting from the synergy between administration and citizenship, the Energy Desk was born, which has developed successfully in the municipal area, with important awards from the European Community (European Award for Sustainable Energy) and Legambiente (Renewable Municipalities). The Desk was later extended to a larger territory and has now become the “Municipalities for Sustainability Desk”, an inter-municipal service that sees 11 Municipalities in the area active in promoting the theme of environmental sustainability<\/p>\n
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”11\/12″ offset=”vc_col-xs-10″][vc_empty_space height=”13px”]\n\t\n\n\t \n Municipality of Marano Vicentino <\/span>\n<\/span>\n\n \n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n\n \n [vc_column_text]Marano Vicentino (VI) is a Municipality of almost 10 thousand inhabitants of the Altovicentino, in the high plain where the streams Leogra and Timonchio flow. In 2016 it won the Virtuous Municipalities Award, promoted by the Virtuous Municipalities Association with the patronage of the Ministry of the Environment. In setting up a participatory project for a sustainable territory, the Municipality of Marano has adhered from 2014 to the “Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy”, committing to an “Action Plan for Sustainable Energy” (Paes), with the goal of reducing at least 20% of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. On these issues, Marano also participates in the “Municipalities Desk for Sustainability”, promoted by the Municipality of Santorso.<\/p>\nAmong the other projects carried out, there are the recovery of 15,000 square meters of agricultural land saved from covering with concrete; 1,000 new trees planted for the creation of a “lowland forest”, 77.5% of separate collection in 2018 – door to door and with the punctual rate of waste – with 65.1 kg of dry waste per capita per year.<\/p>\n
Through four routes of about 1.2 km, about a hundred children now go to school with the “feet-bus”, accompanied by their grandparents, and over time is strengthening the mobility \u00a0of bicycles and the exchange between different means, such as the bike and the train, enhancing the station of Marano as a cultural space. Every year the Municipality proposes various initiatives for participation and environmental awareness, such as the day of collective care of the territory, “Let\u2019s clean Marano” and, for children, the “Bloodhound sniffs garbage”, or the cultural review ” The discipline of the earth. Landscape, men and animals”.<\/p>\n
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”11\/12″ offset=”vc_col-xs-10″]\n\t\n\n\t \n The Reclamation Consortium Alta Pianura Veneta <\/span>\n<\/span>\n\n \n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n\n \n [vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe consortium for the reclamation of the Upper Venetian Plain covers a total of 172,953 hectares in a territory that includes 96 Municipalities in the Veneto region, in whole or in part, spread over three provinces: Vicenza, Verona and Padua. The primary activity of the Consortium is to provide for the execution of the hydraulic reclamation works, the maintenance and operation of watercourses, as well as the execution of hydraulic works (integral reclamation).<\/p>\n
In addition to all those interventions aimed at the defense and conservation of the soil, today the activity of the consortium also includes the protection of the rural space and the agricultural irrigation ecosystem and the related protection of the environment.<\/p>\n
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”11\/12″ offset=”vc_col-xs-10″]\n\t\n\n\t \n TESAF - Department of Territory and Agro-Forest Systems - University of Padua <\/span>\n<\/span>\n\n \n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n\n \n [vc_column_text]The Department of Territory and Agro-Forestal Systems (TESAF) is part of the University of Padua and is characterized by modernity and multi-disciplinarity. The activity is strongly oriented towards the study, conservation, effective management and sustainable use of agricultural, forestry and environmental resources. Research and teaching are based on bases of qualitative excellence and on international, national and local collaborations in order to produce tangible and innovative results at the service of science and society. The structure of the Department reflects the multiplicity of different knowledge that characterize it, such as ecology, forestry, territorial planification, phytopathology, valuation, law and policies of the territory, the economy and agro-food policy, rural and forestry, hydrology and water resource management, geomatics, xylography and wood technology and mechanization of agriculture and forestry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Despite this worrying situation, local administrations and communities are unprepared for such events and still unable to act to anticipate and mitigate their effects. For this reason, improving the safety and hydraulic resilience of the territory requires extensive and incisive actions of territorial and social planning, with the involvement of all the different stakeholders.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”90px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”obbiettivibeware” in_content_menu=”in_content_menu” content_menu_title=”Obiettivi BEWARE” content_menu_icon=”fa-angle-double-down” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”50″ z_index=””][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
The objectives of the project<\/h1>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The main objective of the project is to implement a strategy for adaptation to climate change<\/strong> and flood risk in urban and rural areas, through the active involvement of local communities<\/p>\n To this end, the project aims to:[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”] <\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n On a more general level, BEWARE<\/strong> acts within the framework of European policies for adapting cities to climate change and aims to raise awareness on the objectives of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, in particular objectives 11, “Sustainable Cities and Municipalities”, and 13, “Combating Climate Change”.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”90px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” anchor=”partnerbeware” in_content_menu=”in_content_menu” content_menu_title=”Partner BEWARE” content_menu_icon=”fa-angle-double-down” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1559661042088{background-color: #ecf8fe !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″ offset=”vc_col-xs-2″][vc_column_text] The commitment in this specific field was born in 2007 when the Administration, in collaboration with the Veneto Region and some local authorities, started the Provincial Environmental Education Laboratory. In 2014, the City Council approved the Action Plan for Sustainable Energy (www.santorsosostenibile.it) after having adopted, in 2012, the strategic vision “Santorso 2020”. The administration is strongly committed to the issues of renewable energy, with attention to the construction of paths of participation of citizens. In 2015, starting from the synergy between administration and citizenship, the Energy Desk was born, which has developed successfully in the municipal area, with important awards from the European Community (European Award for Sustainable Energy) and Legambiente (Renewable Municipalities). The Desk was later extended to a larger territory and has now become the “Municipalities for Sustainability Desk”, an inter-municipal service that sees 11 Municipalities in the area active in promoting the theme of environmental sustainability<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.comune.santorso.vi.it\/web\/santorso\/<\/a>[\/vc_column_text] <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″ offset=”vc_col-xs-2″][vc_column_text] Among the other projects carried out, there are the recovery of 15,000 square meters of agricultural land saved from covering with concrete; 1,000 new trees planted for the creation of a “lowland forest”, 77.5% of separate collection in 2018 – door to door and with the punctual rate of waste – with 65.1 kg of dry waste per capita per year.<\/p>\n Through four routes of about 1.2 km, about a hundred children now go to school with the “feet-bus”, accompanied by their grandparents, and over time is strengthening the mobility \u00a0of bicycles and the exchange between different means, such as the bike and the train, enhancing the station of Marano as a cultural space. Every year the Municipality proposes various initiatives for participation and environmental awareness, such as the day of collective care of the territory, “Let\u2019s clean Marano” and, for children, the “Bloodhound sniffs garbage”, or the cultural review ” The discipline of the earth. Landscape, men and animals”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.comune.marano.vi.it<\/a>[\/vc_column_text] <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″ offset=”vc_col-xs-2″][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text] The consortium for the reclamation of the Upper Venetian Plain covers a total of 172,953 hectares in a territory that includes 96 Municipalities in the Veneto region, in whole or in part, spread over three provinces: Vicenza, Verona and Padua. The primary activity of the Consortium is to provide for the execution of the hydraulic reclamation works, the maintenance and operation of watercourses, as well as the execution of hydraulic works (integral reclamation).<\/p>\n In addition to all those interventions aimed at the defense and conservation of the soil, today the activity of the consortium also includes the protection of the rural space and the agricultural irrigation ecosystem and the related protection of the environment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.altapianuraveneta.eu<\/a>[\/vc_column_text] <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″ offset=”vc_col-xs-2″][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text] <\/p>\n\n
\nThe Partners<\/h1>\n
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”11\/12″ offset=”vc_col-xs-10″]\n\n\t \n TESAF - Department of Territory and Agro-Forest Systems - University of Padua <\/span>\n<\/span>\n\n \n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n
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