Riflessi dell’opera di Giovanni Rosadi sull’economia dell’ambiente e del paesaggio in Italia

Abstract

The topic of landscape protection aroused considerable interest in the Italian Parliament in 1910-1911, thanks to Giovanni Rosadi, who introduced a bill specifically addressing the issue.

This article aims to examine, through the lens of environmental economics, the concepts and approaches evident in Rosadi’s writings, which would become integral to environmental analysis methodologies and policy interventions in the decades that followed. Ecosystem services, environmental externalities, sustainable development, and public goods are concepts readily discernible in Rosadi’s arguments for the need to develop regulations to protect landscape. Rosadi uses the term “landscape” as a synecdoche for the term “environment”, as it has a more evident and powerful perceptual significance, but it often emerges as a synonym in the motivations for its protection and enhancement.