New challenges and cross-cutting issues in agricultural and rural planning

Goals

The conference aims at outlining new challenges in agricultural and rural land management and planning, in relation to the most topical and relevant experiences and visions in the following fields: sustainable intensification of food production, multi-functionality, resource efficiency, urban sprawl, enhancement of environmental resources, innovative systems, structures and technologies for sustainable agriculture and forestry, and training agri-environmental experts of the future. The conference focuses also on cross-cutting and interdisciplinary issues such as bridging the gap between urban and rural planning and between rural planning and rural development, smart bioprocesses and rural land management, the food-landscape nexus, rural-metropolitan interface planning, rural cultural heritage and innovative processes for rural regeneration, energy and landscape.

Organizers

Elisabetta Carfagna - Department of Statistical Sciences, and Patrizia Tassinari – Department of Agricultural Sciences - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

Opening and welcome

2:30 pm Welcome. Ivano Dionigi – Rector of Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

2:45 pm Opening. Luca Sani - Chair of the Agriculture Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

First session - New challenges in agricultural and rural land management and planning

Chair: Luca Sani - Chair of the Agriculture Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

• 3:00 pm  A roadmap for future land use management in Europe: the VOLANTE project - Bas Pedroli - Uniscape Director, Associate Professor Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University 
• 3:20 pm  Improving knowledge to make better decisions in rural planning, focus on efficiency and accuracy - Patrizia Tassinari, Full Professor of Rural Construction and Environmental Land Management, University of Bologna, and Daniele Torreggiani, Associate Professor of Rural Construction and Environmental Land Management, University of Bologna
• 3:40 pm  Environmental sustainability of intensive livestock activities - Giorgio Provolo - Full Professor of Rural Construction and Environmental Land Management, University of Milan
• 4:00  pm Evolution of the Agricultural Engineering studies to cover new challenges and needs - Francisco Ayuga - Professor at the School of Agricultural Engineering, Technical University of Madrid 
• 4:20 pm  Discussion 

Second session - Rural land management and planning: crosscutting and interdisciplinary issues

Chair: Daniele Torreggiani, Associate Professor of Rural Construction and Environmental Land Management, University of Bologna

• 4:30 pm   Urban vs rural development  - Roberto Fanfani - Alma Mater Professor, University of Bologna
• 4:50 pm  The mosaicking of agricultural and forestry landscapes for an ecologically oriented planning within protected areas  -  Enrico Fabrizio, Researcher and Assistant Professor of Rural Construction and Environmental Land Management, University of Turin
• 5:10 pm  From agriculture to energy crops. Land Cover Change assessment through spatial multi-criteria analysis and decision support tool  - Lorenzo Boccia - Associate Professor of Rural Construction and Environmental Land Management, University of Naples
• 5:30 pm  Landscape gradients: a new and challenging approach to spatial analysis and planning -  Marco Vizzari - Researcher and Assistant Professor of Rural Construction and Environmental Land Management, University of Perugia

5:50 pm  General discussion and concluding remarks

6:00 pm  Coffee break