Over the past few months, the scientific debate has put in evidence how a pandemic is one of the\u00a0various possible implications of the progressive destruction and erosion of ecosystems that is both\u00a0threatening the planet and challenging territories.\u00a0In general, epidemics are the expression of environmental stress and of a shift in the balance between\u00a0man and his habitat, to which the planet, in other words the Earth, reacts and rebels against. The\u00a0challenge thus becomes, in the words of the philosopher Bruno Latour, that of seeking and finding a\u00a0new geo-political horizon. Latour identifies this new horizon in the notion of the Terrestrial (the title of\u00a0this number of the journal), which takes part in human action (and is therefore no longer only the\u00a0backdrop) and establishes itself as a sort of third element situated between the two poles of attraction\u00a0that generated the crisis: the local and the global.\u00a0The Terrestrial calls into question the current Anthropocene and compels us to design a new system of\u00a0alliances for survival on the planet, involving the overcoming of dualisms, the explosion of the\u00a0reciprocal interactions between geosphere, biosphere and sociosphere, and the dialectics between\u00a0the material nature of the soil and the planetary dimension of movement. The Terrestrial alludes to\u00a0the visionary capacity of understanding the interdependence between human and non-human agents\u00a0and demands new ecological policies that are both localized and territorial. In particular, the Terrestrial\u00a0makes us \u201cland\u201d our attention on the political concept of the territory as only possible future horizon,\u00a0both for the old inhabitants of wealthy nations who are now aware that there is no planet that is\u00a0adaptable to globalisation, and for the new inhabitants (migrants) who, compelled to leave their \u201cold\u00a0land\u201d, must radically modify their ways of living.\u00a0The earth and nature as backdrop of human actions are thus replaced by the Territory that takes part\u00a0in human action, and is not only the backdrop to it: a contested domain without which human survival\u00a0is not imaginable; a domain that has been challenged and dented by the various crises (climatic,\u00a0epidemic, environmental, migratory), yet remains as a synthesis between earth and humanity, home\u00a0of peoples and cultures, long-term social product and construct, humanity’s only living environment.\u00a0The Territory thus acquires a new central role and establishes itself as necessary response to the crises\u00a0that affect it.\u00a0Terrestrial sets these theoretical and political reflections as the background with the purpose of\u00a0collecting contributions that highlight the possible responses provided by territories (in terms of\u00a0design, policies, approaches) to pandemic, climatic, environmental and migratory crises. In particular,\u00a0it intends promoting reflections and contributions regarding the degrees of uncertainty that\u00a0increasingly challenge the rationale of both the project and planning for the future of territories, and\u00a0which require \u201cpreparedness\u201d, on the one hand, and on the other a framework oriented to the actions\u00a0necessary for pro-actively fostering territorial cohesion and resilience.
\nIn particular, this number of Contesti invites participants to submit theoretical, methodological and\u00a0descriptive (case studies, approaches, territorial policies) contributions on the following topics:\u00a0Territorial resilience: construction of integrated policies, plans and projects;\u00a0Effects on the territory and territorial responses to climatic, migratory, pandemic and environmental\u00a0crises;\u00a0Urban and territorial ecological policies;\u00a0\u201cPreparedness\u201d as a response to crises;\u00a0Orientation to strategic territorial planning in contexts characterised by uncertainty;\u00a0Strengthening of the territorial dimension of sector-related policies at all levels of governance;\u00a0New European territorial cohesion policy.
\nContributors are are invited to use the following institutional contexts as reference:
\n\u25cf The territorial perspectives of the \u201cTerritorial Agenda 2030. A future for all places\u201d of the European\u00a0Union (December 1st 2020), which establishes two general aims, \u201cJust Europe\u201d and \u201cGreen Europe\u201d,\u00a0with six respective priorities concerning the development of the European territory:\u00a0Better balanced territorial development utilising Europe\u2019s diversity;\u00a0Convergent local and regional development, less inequality between places;\u00a0Easier living and working across national borders;\u00a0Better ecological livelihoods, climate-neutral and resilient towns, cities and regions;\u00a0Strong and sustainable local economies in a globalised world;\u00a0Sustainable digital and physical connectivity of places;
\n\u25cf The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in September of 2015 by the governments of\u00a0all 193 member states of the United Nations, with specific reference to one or more of the 17 Goals\u00a0for Sustainable Development included in it;
\n\u25cf Reflections on and territorial implications of the European Bioeconomy Strategy and the promotion\u00a0of a circular economy;
\n\u25cf Opportunities and limits of the new round of the Common Agricultural Policy for the period 2021-27\u00a0from the perspective of the promotion and safeguarding of biodiversity and decarbonisation\u00a0processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","topic":[714,654,72,435,437,308,576,88,446,608,622,453,605,705,650,607,90,640,657,469,731,656,481,486,493,606,496,706,638,503,594,284,514,588,517,168],"country":[25],"nsj_language":[57,56],"class_list":["post-3036","call_for_papers","type-call_for_papers","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","topic-adaptation-strategies","topic-agricultural-systems","topic-business-economics-management","topic-circular-economy","topic-climate-change","topic-complex-systems","topic-data-management","topic-development-economics","topic-digital-technologies","topic-ecosystems","topic-environmental-impact","topic-environmental-sustainability","topic-governance","topic-green-economy","topic-green-policies","topic-habitats","topic-health-wellness","topic-health-emergency","topic-health-risk","topic-interdisciplinarity-approach","topic-local-communities","topic-mitigation-strategies","topic-process-management","topic-public-spaces","topic-resilience","topic-safety-and-security","topic-sdgs-2030","topic-social-impact","topic-social-sustainability","topic-strategic-design","topic-sustainable-cities","topic-sustainable-development","topic-urban-design","topic-urban-development","topic-urban-regeneration","topic-urban-studies-planning","country-italy","nsj_language-english","nsj_language-italian"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n