L'impronta ecologica quale strumento di valutazione ambientale per una rete di ecovillaggi.

The ecological imprint as a tool of environmental evaluation for creating an “ecovillage network” The research whose aim has been the realization of an “ecovillage network” into the territory of the Reventino-Tiriolo-Mancuso Comunità Montana, in the province of Catanzaro, has been made through a flexible, multi-disciplinary and integrated methodology and the use of specialist competences, in order to analyze concretely the possible opportunity for creating an ecovillage network inside a definite territorial context. The focus of the research is, of course, the inclination of a territorial model having definite features which can be implemented in every local framework by certain environmental, social and economic qualities. The ecovillage constitutes a laboratory for the research and the experimentation of lifestyles which are alternative to those of the current socio-economic model. Unlike the “community” which has a smaller size, the ecovillage aims at elevating the greatest selfsufficiency in order to satisfy, as much as possible, every needs of its members (job, pleasure, selfexpression, education, affective needs etc…) inside it.