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The collaboration for the first Gran Paradiso National Park draft Plan is the beginning of the cooperation with R. Gambino in researches about European protected areas. Such researches, far before the 394/91 law provision for Italy, have been developed considering the parks as laboratories of experimentation of policies and tools for an environmental, landscape and territorial integrated management.