Project number: 639 Project acronym: trAILs Project title: Alpine Industrial Landscapes Transformation DELIVERABLE D.T1.3.2 Pilot profile (draft) WPT1 Map AILs: data collection, harmonization and transfer into Work package: webGIS Activity: Activity A.T1.3 Organization: LAMORO Development Agency – Project Partner 6 Deliverable date: November 2018 Version: 1 Dissemination level: Regional and Local stakeholders Dissemination target: Regional and Local This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Alpine Space programme CONTENT 1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 REGIONAL PP S AND LOCAL STAKEHOLDER NETWORK ................................................................................................ 3 1.2 OVERVIEW OF THE REGION............................................................................................................................................. 3 1.2.1 VALLE GESSO – GESSO VALLEY ....................................................................................................................... 9 1.2.2 VALLE VERMENAGNA.......................................................................................................................................... 9 2 REGIONAL PROFILE ............................................................................................................................ 10 2.1 NATURAL CONDITIONS AND LANDSCAPE .................................................................................................................. 10 2.1.1 VALLE VERMENAGNA....................................................................................................................................... 15 2.1.2 VALLE GESSO ....................................................................................................................................................... 15 2.1.3 CUNEO PLAIN AND HILLS .............................................................................................................................. 16 2.2 ALPINE CLIMATE DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................................ 17 2.3 TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRAFFIC .............................................................................................................. 19 2.4 SPATIAL STRUCTURE AND SETTLEMENTS .................................................................................................................... 22 2.4.1 Soil consumption – VALLE VERMENAGNA ............................................................................................... 23 2.4.2 Soil consumption – VALLE GESSO ................................................................................................................ 24 2.5 POPULATION AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE ............................................................................................................ 25 2.6 ECONOMIC SITUATION ................................................................................................................................................ 28 2.7 ACTORS AND NETWORKS ............................................................................................................................................ 30 3 SITE PROFILE ....................................................................................................................................... 31 3.1 SITE BORGO SAN DALMAZZO-VALDIERI ....................................................................................................... 31 4 CHALLENGES AND EXPECTATIONS ................................................................................................. 38 4.1 PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION. ........................................................ 38 4.2 PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE . .............................................................. 38 Page | 2 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 REGIONAL PPS AND LOCAL STAKEHOLDER NETWORK LAMORO involved the Regional Authority (Land Planning and Landscape Sector) as Observer and it started to work for pilot area description in close cooperation with local stakeholders (first of all municipalities). The network of stakeholders includes the following actors: - Piemonte Region (Land Planning and Landscape Sector); - Province of Cuneo; - Municipalities (8 Municipalities of the pilot area); - The Mountain Unions “Alpi del Mare” and “Alpi Marittime”; - Italcementi SpA HeidelbergCement Group; - Trade associations at the provincial level; - Environmental associations (Legambiente); - Civil Society and citizens. The Mayors of Borgo San Dalmazzo and Valdieri shared with LAMORO info about the territory, development proposal idea and knowledge about past industrial settlement (mining and productive lines). Some information was also shared with Italcementi SpA. The Municipalities’ technical offices have been also involved. Anyway, for data collection it was necessary to involve stakeholders at 3 different administrative levels (regional, provincial and municipal). The major information of the pilot area has been processed on the basis of the Regional Landscape Plan (2017), the Regional Territorial Plan (2011), the Town Plans, the Provincial Territorial Plan (2005). 1.2 OVERVIEW OF THE REGION Table 1: Facts & Figures of the Pilot region Pilot region Valle Gesso e Val Vermenagna - Gesso Valley and Vermenagna Valley Country Italy Location Piedmont Region (NW Italy) Area (in sq. km) About 400 sq. km Inhabitants About 21.000 Page | 3 Borgo San Dalmazzo, Roccavione, Robilante, Roaschia, Valdieri, Municipalities Vernante, Limone Piemonte, Entracque Characteristics Flat and (mainly) mountainous The pilot region is characterized by the presence of many quarries and mines. The pilot area is located in the province of Cuneo, in the Piedmont region borders. Figure 1: The pilot area, in red the quarries and in yellow the pilot site. Page | 4 Figure 2: In red, you can see where the pilot is located in relation to Italy and Europe (the picture is catch up from the Geographic Catalogue of the Piemonte Region (Regional Authority). Page | 5 Figure 3: In blue you can see the pilot area in relation with the regional territory Page | 6 The pilot area is inserted in the Maritime Alps territory which embraces the part of the Alps between the Colle di Tenda (Tenda Pass) and the Colle della Maddalena (Maddalena Pass), including the three valleys that lie on the Italian side of the Maritime Alps: Vermenagna, Gesso, and Stura Valleys. To be more precise the right side of the Vermenagna Valley is in the Ligurian Alps, and the left side of the Stura Valley is in the southern Cozie. The pilot area includes two alpine valleys (Vermenagna and Gesso) and the municipality of Borgo San Dalmazzo. More precisely, the pilot area is identified as follows: - Valle Gesso – Gesso Valley (Municipalities: Entracque, Roaschia, Valdieri); - Valle Vermenagna – Vermenagna Valley (Municipalities: Roccavione, Robilante, Vernante, Limone Piemonte); - the flat and hill territory where the Municipality of Borgo San Dalmazzo is placed. Borgo San Dalmazzo Municipality is settled at end of the flat area and it’s the starting point of different alpine valleys: Gesso Valley, Vermenagna Valley and Stura Valley. Figure 4: The mountain valleys in the province of Cuneo Page | 7 Figure 5: The Municipalities borders (Borgo San Dalmazzo, Roccavione, Robilante, Roaschia, Valdieri, Vernante, Limone Piemonte, Entracque). This territory is characterized by a configuration of small villages with: low population density (lower than the national level), aged population, weak level of migratory dynamism, low prevalence of children under 14 years old (versus the total of the population). Families are small, the demographic dynamism is negative, both in the short both in the long term, and is affected by low birth rates that will impact on the short future. An aggravating factor is the level of education, since the lack of young graduates’ people is alarming. The number of pupils is shocking and it is relevant for a situation of a demographic shock in short term. Moreover, the houses not occupied for various reasons are very numerous. Commercial Structures (shops) are fragmented. The number of public concerns per inhabitant are undersized compared to the territorial surfaces. Tourism also does not constitute an element of strength for these areas (except for the Municipality of Limone Piemonte), in spite of the increasing number of holiday’s homes. From the analysis of wealth, production and services provided, the number of bank branches and money deposits are very low, as well as services to individuals and businesses. Also, agriculture does not seem playing an alternative role in the local development (the use of the soil is low in comparison to the total area). there are few major economic contributors and in the fragmented partition of the production structure there are employees with low income levels. Page | 8 1.2.1 VALLE GESSO – GESSO VALLEY The Gesso Valley is situated just outside the town of Borgo San Dalmazzo and goes up towards Valdieri where it splits into the valleys of Entracque and Terme di Valdieri. It’s the core zone of the Nature Park of the Maritime Alps . The park is one of the largest protected area in Piedmont and it touches the municipalities of Aisone, Entracque, Roaschia, Valdieri