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05-08-11 - Final Conference

The 24th and 25 th October, in Corte there will be the project Final Conference.

You can find attached the agenda!

04-08-11 - Summer school on degrowth

The Association for the degrowth (www.decrescita.it) is organizing a residential summer school on the themes of degrowth, putting together moments of theoretical knowledge and good practices experimentation, in a context in which the conviviality and participation are closely intertwined with the theoretical and practical learning.

Pesariis (Prato Carnico, Udine),13-18 September 2011.

07-12-10 - The EU striving for a global regime to combat climate change

During the UN Climate Conference in Cancùn (29 November - 10 December) , the Eu has given a full and transparent report on its delivery of "fast start" funding to support developing countries.

04-06-10 - International Conference on Common Lands: Rome, 8th of June 2010

On Tuesday, 8th of June, the partnership of COMMONS project is holding an international conference in Rome, dealing with The sustainable management of Common Lands: A European perspective.

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COMMONS project faces the challenge of territorial management in marginal lands in the framework of a continuous concentration of former rural population towards urban or peri-urban areas. Important natural areas risk environment depletion because of changing in the utilization patterns and abandoning of traditional practices.

Some of these areas correspond to ancient common lands once managed for the livelihood of a whole village, but now subject to overgrowing. Across centuries common lands were preserved by the managing system in use, and nowadays these areas cover habitats often of very high nature conservation value, because of their very long continuity of management. Commons were once widespread across Europe, there are still existing but faces threats due to the complexity in defining the legal entity and rights of the commoners, and scarcely still represent an interesting source of income for communities.

Generally common land is a natural area owned by one person, public or private, but over which another is entitled to exercise right of use in common with others, such as a local community. This double sided aspect of common lands, being rich in nature and subject to special legal treatment, represent an opportunity which risks to be forget.

COMMONS intends to reassess the value of the uncultivated common lands - called forest based common lands to distinguish from rural common lands – as a valid instrument for preserving natural resources and valorise natural products in order to both preserve the natural heritage and reduce the phenomenon of depopulation.

COMMONS is a EU project funded within the first call for proposal of the INTERREGIVC Programme.

The Interregional Cooperation Programme INTERREG IVC (www.interreg4c.net) , financed by the European Union’s Regional Development Fund, helps Regions of Europe work together to share experience and good practice in the areas of innovation, the knowledge economy, the environment and risk prevention. EUR 302 million is available for project funding but, more than that, a wealth of knowledge and potential solutions are also on hand for regional policy-makers.