Looking Forward: Some Opportunities and Challenges for Bioregional Planning in Current Policies and Planning Framework

Previous chapters provided and raised some issues and concepts that could be helpful to underline as key elements in reframing planning approaches in a bioregional and transitional sense. They are issues that, at least apparently, cross with some other general findings and themes in the field of geographic and planning studies that are aimed to reframe and rethink the underpinning elements and drivers concerning human settlement evolution and related economic development. These themes once translated in integrated frames, visions, policies, and plans can feed a set of bioregional prospect and practices. In the next paragraph, I’ll try to point out some of these thematic fields as suitable, under certain conditions and interpretations, to gather a range of issues as components within a wider “critical” and “reflexive” bioregional discourse aimed to innovate planning approaches.