Enviromental impact mitigation in rural heritage maintenance

The paper examines critical issues in the preservation and maintenance of rural building in the Apulia region. On the basis of the peculiarities of this precious part of our cultural heritage and of criticities emerged in protection and promotion processes developed in the last decades, the work here presented aims at introducing an innovative approach, represented by the VIRIDIA research program carried out at ITC-CNR (Bari). Focusing on the setting out of an integrated system of support tools for the planning and management of rehabilitation projects, the research aims at enhancing the environmental quality of the rural heritage and at facilitating an effective involvement of the different stakeholders of promotion processes. Among the project's results, the 'Guidelines for environmental impact mitigation', which represent the objective of a specific activity line within the research program, will be described in the paper.