Buone pratiche europee per il contrasto al consumo di suolo. Il progetto ESPON SUPER

Sustainable land use depends on the socio-economic processes that trigger spatial development and the effectiveness of spatial governance tools that regulate these processes. The ESPON SUPER project aimed to explore the main land-use dynamics in Europe, looking at and comparing the interventions implemented in the various countries to promote sustainability. A sample of 235 interventions was analysed from 39 European countries. This paper analyses them based on four different variables: (i) the scale at which the interventions are conceived; (ii) the type of territories subject to them; (iii) the type of interventions; (iv) the type of instruments behind these interventions. On this basis, it develops some considerations concerning the effectiveness of the interventions implemented in Europe to promote a more sustainable use of land.