Cultivating new biodiversity by resilient landscapes. Opportunities to be seized in the Salento delle Serre.

The proposed research thematizes, articulates and develops an interdepartmental university research, whose main objective was to keep space, society, economies together. The result is an integrated project of territories, able to rethink cities and landscapes in an integrated strategy, with particular reference to the system of minor centres, triggering the necessary ecological transition to models of development without growth that focuses on the quality of living. From this standpoint, the Salento delle Serre represents an incredible historical, landscape, environmental, rural patchwork, whose territories must not be places of consumption (of history, traditions, nature), but the production of new cultures, agricultural and landscape practices, of renewed ways of providing services and interacting with the environment. Through the articulation of different ecology, the research identifies a landscape-settlement scenario aimed at the construction of a multifunctional ecological network, which supports and enhances the settlement, cultural and natural heritage, highlighting its qualities, peculiarities, characters. Re-infrastructure opportunities at different scales and sizes (infrastructural, landscape, ecological-environmental).