The ‘procedural/action abacus’ is a double-entry grid containing the functional classification of the main types of actions following the system analysis correlated to their possible location in the space and time frame. This method allows for controlling possible overlaps of the contradictory norms and the continuous revision of the general planning with successive programmes of actions. The abacus model represents a planning approach that is particularly useful in regions with highly complex comprehensive variables (environmental quality, wood patrimony, landscape structure, areas characterized by different human impacts, etc.), and, at the same time, it overlaps other planning actions in use. The approach should proceed with a wider perspective of strategies that take into account the continuous communications among territory context/ecosystem functions/laws in order to perform human interventions in a more sustainable and manageable way. The procedural Abacus can support both a vision/overall planning and the accomplishment of immediate actions. So it is possible to operate planning and process. By its own nature of systemic analysis and sets of laws and methodological indicators, the abacus is to be considered as an instrument for facilitating progress by featuring a constant open elaboration (Braioni et al., 2006).