In today’s world, territorial scale is key to understanding our environment as a process. Natural or cultural heritage are subordinated to the scale and dynamics of a way of understanding these circumstances in a systemic and complex way, in which everything is understood as a collective. The ‘landscape’ as a constituent element of the ‘territorial’ contains everything, and living organisms or beings are part of this environmental gearing that in the present environmental crisis play a key role. It is urgent to mitigate this environmental crisis and, to bring this about, it is necessary to create new balances, but also to interact, to live together in an active way; that is to say, to learn from our coexistence with other living beings, as the epigraph states. All this stems from a new relationship between the countryside and the city, polycentrism, cooperation, complementarity, active conservation and ecological regeneration.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/fa.2007252Xp.2023.14.28

Published: 01-12-2023