http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/upland <p>UPLanD promotes an interdisciplinary approach to urban planning, landscape and environmental design as an effective form of the governance - sustainable and eco-efficient - of processes for the protection, enhancement and development of urban contexts. In publishing research and experimentation results and innovative solutions, expressing positions toward current issues, and suggesting new avenues of research and product and process innovation, the journal aims to:</p> <ul> <li class="show" style="text-align: left;">disseminate meaningful, responsible, accurate and independent contributions in the field of urban planning, landscape and environmental design, which are supported by research and original experiments carried out both in scientific environments and practice;</li> <li class="show" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 6px;">provide an international comparison tool for research work being done on the subject of the sustainable governance of the built environment, in view of the advancement of knowledge, methods and tools in comparison with the global scientific community;</li> <li class="show" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 6px;">promote the dissemination of research and experimentation, whose results and effects are of interest due to their social, economic, environmental, cultural and ecological impact;</li> <li class="show" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 6px;">promote the recognition of scientific contributions according to the criteria for the evaluation of research in the academic field, as defined internationally;</li> <li class="show" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 6px;">offer young researchers a user friendly environment for the promotion and dissemination of products in the international scientific community and for the relevant measurement of their impact;</li> <li class="show" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 6px;">promote the sustainable governance of the territory as a central and essential strategy for the growth of the collective well-being;</li> <li class="show" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 6px;">promote encounters / comparisons among scientific researchers, the profession, producers and decision makers.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: Thaoma; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; color: black;">Publication model</span></strong></p> <p>UPLanD operates under a continuous publication model. Once an article is in its final form, after editing, double-blind peer review process and proofreading, it is immediately published online, with references to be cited and definitive page numbers, into one of the two annual issues. This means that current issues are built up gradually throughout the year. The first issue of every year closes on June. The second issue closes on December.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: Thaoma; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; color: black;">Article Processing Charge</span></strong></p> <p><strong>UPLanD does not ask economic contribution to the authors</strong> but, in order to maintain a high level of international quality, all articles, before being published, undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> fedOAPress - Federico II Open Access University Press en-US UPLanD - Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & environmental Design 2531-9906 <span>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</span><br /><br /><ol type="a"><ul><li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_new">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li></ul></ol><br /><ol type="a"><ul><li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</li></ul></ol><br /><ol type="a"><ul><li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li></ul></ol> http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/upland/article/view/10850 <p>Green areas represent crucial elements for urban environments that promote the health and well-being of the community and the entire urban organism. An ecological approach to planning allows us to recognize the well-being of communities and urban systems as essential elements for effective planning to meet contemporary environmental and social needs. This contribution presents the results of extensive research that converge into a comprehensive laboratory work; an experimental field aimed at strengthening the transition process towards green and sustainable cities, focusing on the enhancement and implementation of natural capital within the vast territory of the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria and its Aspromonte National Park. A multidisciplinary and experimental approach in collaboration between the University and the Metropolitan City of Reggio has led to the development of a theoretical and methodological framework consisting of a related system of principles, criteria, and essential measures to facilitate the initiation of early activities in support of the institutional entities of the Reggio metropolitan area. These entities are committed to managing the funds of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan - PNRR, and their missions fully align within the same experimentation field for the valorization of the ecological structure of urban and territorial greenery in the entire area and the networking of spaces for social interaction, thus ensuring a valued healthy climate urban profile</p> Concetta Fallanca Elvira Stagno ##submission.copyrightStatement## http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-03-27 2024-03-27 8 1 5 30 10.6093/2531-9906/10850 http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/upland/article/view/10851 <p>The Regional Natural Park of Vulture is the youngest among the protected areas in Basilicata, located at the border with Campania and Puglia, characterized by a unique blend of geomorphological, vegetational, and historical-cultural aspects. The proposal about a park project aims at establishing and implement ecological, landscape, and multilevel environmental connections, focusing on identifying and enhancing green infrastructures to overcome the issue about portions of territory’s fragmentation and its identity and statutory components. The project plan is based on the analysis and interpretation of various environmental and landscape components to understand the structuring elements and co-evolutionary processes of the territory, that have determined its current configuration. Environmental networks become the essential tool to define these multiscale and multidimensional connections to establish a combined system for the conservation and enhancement of natural and cultural resources, promoting local development processes. The technical-operational methodology is based on the notion of Landscape Ecology, integrated with a territorialist approach and interpretation planning. This approach involves studying the interactions between natural and anthropic ecosystems and their influences on ecological processes. This methodology is a cultural choice in the scientific coordination of the Natural Regional Park Plan Agreement</p> Emanuela Coppola Silvana D'Ambrosio ##submission.copyrightStatement## http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-03-27 2024-03-27 8 1 31 42 10.6093/2531-9906/10851