Sustainable development of small Mediterranean islands:bioregional strategies for the valorisation of military heritage and the islands territory

The paper illustrates and reflects upon the recovery, enhancement and sustainable reuse of military architectures in small Mediterranean islands on the base of the valorisation projects carried out by the partners of the research project “ISOS - Sustainable islands: Network of islands for the long-lasting development and preservation of heritage” (Interreg Italy-France Maritime Program 2014-2020), to which the authors take part. Through a comparative analysis of the valorisation projects carried out by the project partners, the paper provides some guidelines for the construction of knowledge frameworks inspired by the bioregional model in order to guarantee the coherence among the recovery and reuse of military architectures, the environmental landscape system and the organization of the settlement in small Mediterranean Islands