Increase in the resilience of the territories of the Italian-French Riviera and of the Lower Piedmont
"This project is part of the plan RISK": The project intends to face the geomorphological fragility and the hydrogeological risks of the cross border internal areas affected in recent decades by the socio-economic changes resulting in the desertion of the territories. The security and safeguarding of these areas are presented as essential preliminary factors to curb rural exodus, consolidate local specificities and promote forms of sustainable use. It intends to develop a model of prevention and risk management, built on the experiments done at the local level.

The PITER area comprises a long coastal segment extending over the French and Italian territories, the southern Piedmont hills system, and the last foothills of the Maritime Alps, acting as a junction. The partnership, made up of administrations working at the departmental or regional level, universities and chambers of commerce, wants to establish, on the territory, a form of public-private governance on several levels. The objective is to support competitiveness and sustainable economic development within the territory, through the enhancement of one of its strong points: the landscape, as a synthesis of identity, fruit of nature and men's work. Projects contribute to the strategy, by combining landscape and safeguarding (OS 

1.2 - energy redevelopment of built heritage), management (OS 

2.2 - building resilience and risk prevention policies), development (OS 

3.1 - creation of sustainable tourism products, intended for a responsible public, with high spending capacity) and training (OS 

4.2 - creation of specialists in project-related subjects, able to provide support to the socio-economic operators of the territory). The synergy between the coastal Liguria and PACA systems and the Langhe and Roero hills system makes it possible to jointly develop strategies with the aim of maintaining the tourist positioning of these areas on an international scale.