The first joint disciplinary study of the rehabilitation of the country's river landscape, with contributions by Vittorio Algarotti, Gabriella Crivelli, Franco Giorgetta, Giovanna Longhi, Valentino Parmiani, Ippolito Pizzetti, Cesare Stevan, Stefano Topuntoli, Virgilio Vercelloni. CONTENTS: Reconstruction scheme for the Po river. Reconstruction scheme for the Po landscape and the culture of complexity. History and study of springs to enable a scheme of improvement for the human landscape. Nature and artifice: new interrelations with the landscape. Toward forms of nondestructive landscape exploitation. The manmade landscape as a means of knowledge and territorial design. Man and river. Territory and history. Landscape photography as an essential tool for land improvement schemes.