We are becoming more and more aware that the apparently unchangeable environment in which we live is in fact constantly in motion, at first slow and imperceptible while now rapid and visible. Cities, forests, and continents are moving their residence southwards and with them their inhabitants. This rapid transition has led us to look beyond the immediate and anticipated effects of such movement, including the increasing temperatures, prolonged drought periods and the recurrence of extreme climatic phenomena.
Simultaneously, today we see the result of a progressive abandonment of cultivable lands that took place over 70 years ago and began with the two World Wars, heightened by the advanced technology of agricultural machinery. This has shifted the agricultural practice - which has become intensive - almost exclusively in the plains and has allowed the forests to return to hills and unfertile lands. Together with the woods, also the cities have conquered these lands until they reached the limits of the vegetated areas - often surrounding them – usually developing a positive coexistence which, together with the rapid movement southwards, hides a future threat due to human negligence: wildfires.
This thesis therefore wants to give some tools to prepare these domestic woods to mitigate a probable sooty future, and at the same time bring the current coexistence to a state of symbiotic equilibrium.
