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Rural Development Policy for Water Management Sustainability in Italy: Opportunities to Achieve Water Framework Directive Objectives

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15th International Congress on Agricultural Mechanization and Energy in Agriculture (ANKAgEng 2023)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering ((LNCE,volume 458))

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Abstract

Reg. (EU) 2021/2115 requires the integration between the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the 2021–2027 programming period, therefore the consistency between the National CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) and the River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs). To verify this consistency, a survey of River Basin District Authorities (RBDA) has been conducted in various steps along the CSP and RBMPs’ programming process. The main objective of this work is to underline the approach adopted to verify whether and to what extent the macro interventions of CSP can contribute to the Key type of measures (KTM) of RBMP’s and then to the priority identified at RBD level to achieve the WFD objectives. The result was that the interventions identified in the Italian CSP are quite appropriate for implementing the PoMs from a qualitative point of view, suggesting that about 70% of the proposed CSP interventions (30/43) are considered a tool for implementing the RBMPs. Furthermore, from a quantitative point of view, even if Rural Development resources provide a significant contribution to RBMPs, they must be considered together with other financing funds to provide an adequate cost recovery of PoMs measure. Weak points of integration may be important to understand which RBMPs needs cannot be met through the identified RD interventions, seeking other points of contact in the CSP, seeking other sources of funding, or rethinking RD regional strategies.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.reterurale.it/downloads/Piano_Strategico_Nazionale_PAC_31-12-2021.pdf.

  2. 2.

    https://www.reterurale.it/downloads/PSP_Italia_15112022.pdf.

  3. 3.

    KTM are groups of measures with a common purpose. KTMs are therefore containers of measures, independent even if not disconnected from each other, as the same individual action, due to the multiplicity of its objectives and characteristics, can be part of more than one KTM.

Abbreviations

CAP:

Common Agricultural Policy

RD:

Rural development

CSP:

CAP Strategic Plan

RBD:

River Basin District

PoM:

Programme of Measures

RBMP:

River Basin Management Plan

WFD:

Water Framework Directive

ECA:

European Court of Auditors RBDA: River Basin District Authority

KTM:

Key Type of Measures

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    Ruberto Myriam, Chiappini Silvia, Ferrigno Marianna, Manganiello Veronica, Monteleone Alessandro, Pesce Alessandra, Zucaro Raffaella & Pergamo Raffaella

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  1. National Research Council of Italy, Torino, Italy

    Eugenio Cavallo

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

    Fernando Auat Cheein

  3. Dipartimento TESAF (University of Padova, TESAF Department), Università di Padova, Legnaro, Italy

    Francesco Marinello

  4. Department of Agricultural Machinery and Technologies Engineering, Ankara University, Altındağ/Ankara, Türkiye

    Kamil Saçılık

  5. Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA

    Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan

  6. Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Purushothaman C. Abhilash

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Annex 1. Format of the questionnaire submitted to the RBDAs - Eastern Alps sample
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Annex 2. List of RD interventions potentially relevant to RBDMPs measures
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Myriam, R. et al. (2024). Rural Development Policy for Water Management Sustainability in Italy: Opportunities to Achieve Water Framework Directive Objectives. In: Cavallo, E., Auat Cheein, F., Marinello, F., Saçılık, K., Muthukumarappan, K., Abhilash, P.C. (eds) 15th International Congress on Agricultural Mechanization and Energy in Agriculture. ANKAgEng 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 458. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51579-8_38

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