Land planning had been for years the leading and most important professional topic for the company, while now the r&d sector has grown, and there is equity between the two sectors. In 1985, a regional law was very important for this evolution (L.R. n. 24/1985): for the first time agriculture and agro-ecosystems, got the same importance than urban areas. This point of view has permitted new research paths and new applications, in order to conceive the importance of the rural land not only for production (crops, wood), but also for its rural landscape and agro-ecosystems.
The working method of Landlab is scientifically based:
on the analytical step (for instance it uses FAO methods),
on the elaboration of new protocols and methods (i.e. in environmental assessments)
on new products (such as Tersys) for the management of complex areas with webgis.
The new land planning law of the regione Veneto has opened up a different approach to planning, whose goals are:
- sustainable development,
- preservation of social and cultural identities,
- landscape safeguard,
- territory reorganization and qualification,
- attention to new resources,
- safety of inhabited areas against seismic risks and hydrogeological upheavals,
- connect development dynamics from the regional to the national and Eeuropean levels.
In this sector Landlab cooperates with colleagues and professionals (geologists, biologists, architects, topographers, engineers, town planners, sociologists and others), implementing a systemic and combined vision of land planning.
A typical planning path includes:
- acknowledgement and discussion over the customer's ideas;
- analysis of the point (morphology, hydrology, floristic-vegetation aspects, infrastructures, ecological connections etc.);
- draft of a first plan;
- definition of the final and material planning phase (under stated budgets);
- specialized companies research;
- management of the whole work.
The project is mostly supported by experience and knowledge coming from research and development, vice versa an important part of the research and development plans comes out of issues emerging from practical aspects of the realization. For instance both R&D and land planning includ in the topic of draining turfs (for example parkings made with turfs, designed to stock rainfalls for irrigation). A good project is has to be realized in a visible, usable and lasting way. Indeed, from the realization of a park, a sporting facility, an environmental rescue intervention, one can measure the quality of the project itself (drafts, operational details, calculations).
Land planning and management 
