Private Utility and Public Utility in the Landscape-Environmental Evolution. The contraposition between public and private interest is a political common place, certainly not typical of today. It can also be observed that while there is the great convincement that the public and private utility are in conflict for what concerns urban landscape and industrial areas, there has been, and partially there is even today, the silent convincement that in the agricultural areas the public and the private goods correspond. Maybe this is due to the fact that we have been used for many centuries to an extraurban landscape forged by agriculture, so it seems to us as the only right landscape in that area, and therefore it is considered beautiful. On the other hand we know well that modern agriculture has bought to relevant environmental damages, and that the high agricultural industrialization does not only harm the beauty, the variety and the harmony of landscape, but sometimes it ruins also the geological infrastructures. Without trying wishfully to hand out reports, the aim of this work is to prepare the setting for equilibrated evaluations and, mostly, not only one-sided. In particular the amplificators that work at the perception and formation of landscape are compared. The possible causes of the evolution are therefore outlined, both for what concerns those that work casually, that those derived from known and organised decisions.
