The Perception of the Beauty of the Landscape
Today, roughly half the area of the archipelago is environmentally protected with an extensive network of rules and instruments, which are major obstacles to human actions. It is quite difficult to move a stone of place, being subject to the approval of appropriate administrative action. A bureaucratic framework that has become a torture for the minority of people who are involved with protected land use, farmers, residents, etc..
On the contrary, despite the legal mess, half of the island territory has become the space for the disposal of all landscape imaginable horrors and may be exercised in a particular place. I think it has become abundantly clear that the complex regulations instituted in a long process of decades have failed to properly channel the protection of landscape and peri-urban areas.
In an idealistic view of the landscape, one might say that this is the result of the intrinsic evil to human actions, the prevailing materialism. Or a result of selfishness that would result from a technocratic idea of economic space as a venue in which to obtain simple profitability.
According to a neo-Platonic philosophical approach, good and evil are states that we can perceive things in a way that innate knowledge is acquired. One could almost argue that the perception of the beauty of the landscape would be related to the goodness of collective action, with the approach to the ideal of common good and public interest, while ugliness of places could be the result of a social deficit linked an extreme individualism, to that position of every man for himself.