Round Table › "City of Land and Water: Environmental Heritage in European Policies"

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🇬🇧 In contemporary European policies, culture and the environment are regarded as inseparable elements within an integrated vision of sustainable development. The European Union promotes a strategic approach in which cultural heritage is not only a source of identity and social cohesion, but also a crucial tool for supporting the ecological transition. In this sense, the enhancement of environmental heritage plays a central role, both as an asset to be protected and as an opportunity to experiment with sustainable practices.

Documents such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations explicitly emphasize this interconnection, encouraging policies that integrate local knowledge, historical memory, and territorial specificities with the protection of biodiversity and adaptation to climate change.

It is within this context that the case of Ferrara emerges—a historic city shaped by the balance between land and water, where nature, culture, and architecture have dialogued for…