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SHORT TERRITORIAL STATUS REPORT

2nd Steering Committee Meeting Macerata 2nd April 2009

Gino Verrocchi

19/04/23 1Gino dr. Verrocchi

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SHORT TERRITORIAL STATUS REPORTData on losses and costseconomic data & costs for wildfire outbreak (2006)

• Direct Costs: each Italian paid around 10 euro per capita,

• Kyoto Protocol costs: wildfires have produced around 2.2 million ton of greenhouse gas emission: at Wall Street Stock Exchange the value of a tonne of CO2 is approximately $20.

• Envinronmental costs: each Italian family losst a tree (more than 10 million trees destroyed).

19/04/23 2Gino dr. Verrocchi

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SHORT TERRITORIAL STATUS REPORTPolicies to reconstruct and incentivesrecovery programmes and plans of the areas covered by fire.• no plans or programmes:• Abruzzo Region missed Regional Plan for Forests;• each forest holder (public or private) has to activate recovering

actions when incentive calls occur or funds are assigned.• The national law 353/2000 prohibits for five years the activities of

reforestation and environmental engineering incurred with public funds.

19/04/23 3Gino dr. Verrocchi

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SHORT TERRITORIAL STATUS REPORTPolicies to reconstruct and incentivespast and present and goals achieved

• Usual policies: just emergency ones;• prohibition to change the use of fired forested or grazing lands

within 15 years.

19/04/23 4Gino dr. Verrocchi

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SHORT TERRITORIAL STATUS REPORTPolicies to reconstruct and incentivesinvestments in reconstructionActivated by Abruzzo Region the Measure 226 of RDP (Rural Development

Plan) 2007-2013 “Reconstitution of forestry production potential and preventive measures”

In respect of the law forest fire framework (L 353/2000):• prohibition for five years the activities of reforestation and

environmental engineering with public funds.• mandatory for the use of local natives plant species.

19/04/23 5Gino dr. Verrocchi

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Measure 226 of RDP (Rural Development Plan) 2007-2013Eligible interventions :• Cleaning of burned area (dismantling cuts);

• Revitalization of stumps (sawmill woods );

• Landscaping: construction of small horizontal structures to curb surface erosion, using the logs from dismantling cuts;

• Replanting autochthonous species in the pine woods coastal;

• crop care within the first two years to encourage the rooting of the seedlings.

19/04/23 6Gino dr. Verrocchi

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Measure 226 of RDP (Rural Development Plan) 2007-2013

Beneficiaries:• Municipalities and their associations

• Administrative bodies of civic uses

• Private holders

within the mountain, internal hill and coastal areas.

19/04/23 7Gino dr. Verrocchi

PRoMPtSHORT TERRITORIAL STATUS REPORT

Measure 226 of RDP (Rural Development Plan) 2007-2013

Incentives :• disguised as capital investment contributions

• Public Bodies: 100% of eligible incurred expenses ;

• Private: 80% of eligible incurred expenses.

19/04/23 8Gino dr. Verrocchi