Santina Bosco Abstract:
"Protecting the environment for the health. One need no longer be postponed as demonstrated by the 'numbers: 75% of the disease and cause of death is linked to environmental degradation and their lifestyles incorrect ":
so Italian doctors meeting in Padua in the spring have created the Charter for the Protection of Health and Environment.
Obviously the doctors are concerned about our health (sustainable development can protect the health, taking care of the environment), but also our national and local administrators should do, think before you legislate or to adopt measures to change the current situation . In our area, so close to Milan, the quality of 'air deteriorated markedly over the past decade, as the data of objective and subjective observations of the wee respiratory diseases.
A Segrate are 34 000 inhabitants and the prospect is to become many, many more, thanks to all the new neighborhoods in the design and construction.
technique is called increasing level of human and commonly means that we are becoming too many.
And too many people in the same area will cause irreparable damage to the environment, unless something is done to mitigate them.
Here we propose a modest suggestion, assuming that driven urban game is unstoppable for a few years, for various reasons which must be well discussed elsewhere.
The problem is
Segrate urban expansion, but there seems to be an overall plan for landscaping and environmental mitigation and most importantly, the absence of the city with a good public transport system, they all use the car.
The project announced by the practical completion expected in total urbanization of the territory of Segrate, aggregating the various localities of the project to the infrastructural works in the other expenditure categories, such as the program agreement and the decisions made for the benefit 's Expo. (This is in fact a true process of "metropolisation" of the territory: the great expansion of settlements in urban areas tend to weld the first belt with those metros with the potential formation of a megalopolis that consumes all the available land. But when the city is one giant urban area, where we will take the natural surface production that can satisfy our consumption and absorb our waste?). The central problem of this project is dealing with individual pieces of land as if they were the ones to build and lose sight of the total amount of intervention, and this is the danger: the environmental impact of each building does not represent a great danger, but the sum of all new residential neighborhoods is a challenge to the nature of our country - we do not see why we look at individual pieces. This project consumes too much nature and evil consumes twice with complete exhaustion of the soil resource and environmental damage is emerging.
increase of carbon dioxide, fine particles and increase the temperature increases: these three consequences of the massive urbanization are some examples of emerging environmental and health damage. An increase in reckless
population that is set without a comprehensive plan to mitigate the consequences threatens the generation of our children we should do something !
What we need:
From what is written above, it is clear that we need to form a comprehensive picture of emerging environmental damage, before proposing the treatment, but in the absence of full information on the project for the city there are some mitigation works that may be recommended. (It's the same concept of specific immunity and nonspecific that: If we do not have the antibodies we can use right of the substance that our body produces to defend itself, such as lysozyme).
We have need:
· reduce the perverse effects of the massive and rapid transformation land use (progressive replacement of agricultural land with built-up land)
· mitigate the heat island created by the proximity to the city of Milan with improving the local micro-climate.
. find an alternative to the lack of a park or a local wood that counter the greenhouse effect, while contributing to the maintenance of biodiversity
· back to the citizens segratesi air quality bearer of good health.
The simple solution is to reduce the consumption of soil, replacing the building with the instrument over the natural, that is able to reduce the production of carbon dioxide and fine particles and to buffer the rise in temperature resulting from metropolisation.
Proposed solution: The solution is called
MetaParco widespread . The term
metaparco means a park that is different from the park "normal" does not fit in the space of one municipality, but broken here and there (spread). Map of parks in the Province of Milan, Segrate is one of the areas that do not qualify for any park, such as that of the adjacent town of Pioltello (Cascine Park, recognized and protected by the Lombardy Region).
In contrast, Segrate once cultivated agricultural areas were abandoned, there was no compensation biologically related. The proposed MetaParco implies that each lot of variation in the EIP is to be built to reduce the quota to be allocated to create a park area is widespread, in a measure to safeguard sufficient proportion to the area in terms of biological / environmental.
This should be supported by appropriate institutions and universities by third parties such as the harp, to be sure our citizens before the soundness of the evaluation of this measure. Since a
metaparco would have less impact on a fleet of articulated and CO2 reduction, to increase the proportion of green trees, next to the recovery allowance from the territory allocated for these areas to be developed or abandoned in the so-called, could also take into account the draft of the Forest of mobility, as the name of the province): so we may assist each road / highway and be constructing a line of woods, with the planting of suitable trees in the great works of the road and special road upgraded.
The establishment of a Council citizens and institutions on this issue would be an act of civilization, which would be used as an example of how virtuous must bring the government of public affairs, should be part of Look's compulsory third party institutions set up to help on the environmental municipalities and provinces in order to simplify the use of their expertise in this area.
This consultation would include also the objectives of Local Agenda 21.
In conclusion:
Here is the solution together with a reasonable reduction in space requirements can mitigate the impact of those consequences of the doubling of the population are the trees!
not flower beds or ornamental shrubs, but tall trees, which are able to do great thing for which mother nature invented them
- absorb the excess carbon dioxide and returns oxygen exchange; remember the wonderful process production capable of doing this is called photosynthesis. The new president United States announced it would fight among his first acts as carbon dioxide
(she is always the enemy, even if journalists call it, for some reason, carbon dioxide - in bad English cast)
- absorb Fine particulate
- dab the greenhouse effect created by the steady increase of CO2 and thus at least partly mitigate the heat island. (To mitigate it really should build less). To make room for the trees we have to give up some settlements, but it's worth: it is of benefit not only our health but also our quality of life (see from our window you want to put a tree rather than a home?) and the value of our house (as above, when the shaping of the environment goes to the business).
Santina Bosco
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