Rural-Urban inclusive governance strategies an tools for the sustainable development of deeply transforming Alpine territories.
The main problem to be faced through the project is the poor efficiency and effectiveness of the policies to offset the relation among urban and rural areas and their development model. Such an inefficiency is due to the complexity to merge in an organic whole a lot of sectorial policies which have been carried out to tackle the critical situation in terms of loss of competitiveness, landscape degradation, lack of water and soil quality, loss of biodiversity, territorial fragmentation and abandonment, intense use of the resources, quality of life decay. A balanced development can not be achieved with sectorial interventions but only by crossing the segmentation of the territorial governance policies. As the problems are very complex, any solution to be effective needs concretely defined pathways to ensure the inclusiveness of the decision making process. Therefore, the rural/mountain and urban communities should be considered as equal players in a win-win game where one each other they can exchange knowledge, development models, values, investments.