Conversely, development projects and infrastructures more heavily impact on agroforestry contexts, whose landscapes are traditionally mainly characterised by natural elements, cultivated lands and rural settlements. Here infrastructural developments are likely to face more severe environmental and landscape fragilities related to the widespread productive, environmental and social values of these contexts. Experts, planners, designers, as well as the general population, are often concerned about a possible loss of their integrity, related to differences between infrastructure projects and natural and agricultural processes in terms of codes, needs and formal languages. With no effective control over these critical issues and careful design there is a severe risk of uncritically applying urban design standards to rural problems