Evolution Trends of Land Use/Land Cover in a Mediterranean Forest Landscape in Italy

Fazio, Salvatore Di; Modica, Giuseppe; Zoccali, Paolo

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21928-3_20

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“…The need for common approaches to planning and evaluation becomes evident in order to structure the selection of the goals that are pursued and that can lead to possible sustainable actions, considering a multifaceted knowledge framework that can reflect the complexity of the issues at hand, and allowing the assessment of alternatives and their effects as well as to define indicators useful in monitoring plan implementation [73][74][75].…”

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Strategic Environmental Assessment of Port Plans in Italy: Experiences, Approaches, Tools

Cerreta

Toro

2012

Sustainability

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Evaluation is increasingly important in decision-making processes for the sustainable planning and design of port plans. It acts as a support for plan preparation, for making values, interests and needs explicit, and for exploring the components of the decision-making process itself. Evaluation can be likened to an "implicit tool" that can integrate approaches, methodologies and models, adapting to the many needs revealed during the decision-making process. New sustainability challenges call for new approaches to creating frameworks for the analysis and evaluation of plans and projects that allow the integration of multidimensional goals and values. Utilizing some selected case studies of port plans in six Italian cities, this paper explores how environmental assessment can become a tool for dialog and interaction among different fields of expertise to support dynamic learning processes, knowledge management and the creation of shared choices, using suitable approaches and tools. In this view, Integrated Spatial Assessment (ISA) can be useful in supporting decision-making processes on different scales and institutional levels to stimulate dialog between technical and political evaluations, referring to complex values that are part of conflicting and changing realities in which it has become imperative to operate according to sustainability principles.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic Environmental Assessment of Port Plans in Italy: Experiences, Approaches, Tools

Cerreta

Toro

2012

Sustainability

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“…The coupling of incentives with the productions harvested bowed the so called Solar Bubbles on arable lands. Despite it is no more a matter to be aware about the lesson learned tells us on the need of sound monitoring systems which could preventively alert the land governance chains [7]. In others (right) companies unrelated with farming loaned arable parcels.…”

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Detection of Fast Landscape Changes: The Case of Solar Modules on Agricultural Land

Marcheggiani

Gulinck

Galli

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Fast land changes may lead to new unadaptive structures and functions and may remain unnoticed causing national as well as local land survey agencies to be ineffective. This argument will be displayed by means of a real case in central Italy and by focusing on the booming sprawl of photovoltaic solar modules on arable land. In Marche Region such a change has come about with an exponential pace in terms of area coverage. The figure emerging from our experimental survey shows 800 ha of arable lands sealed over the overall regional area in less than 7 years. So far, planning permissions to install solar modules are no longer acknowledged with ease on agricultural land and the subsidies have declined. Since solar technologies are a new promising land use frontier in agricultural land, a "standstill" may not be the best policy response. Land use policies should be able to respond to rapid changes, but this starts with rapid update of the effective land use practices. A positive feedback would come from open and volunteered geo-information.

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“…The need of complex social and environmental assessment arises during the process, when the public has to "defend" the property rights on commons, against the development rights of the stakeholder [32].…”

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Evaluating Sustainability and Democracy in the Development of Industrial Port Cities: Some Italian Cases

2012

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Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a major policy evaluation tool, for institutional processes, when they need to cope with fundamental risks, give voice to non-human agents, manage commons, and address environmental justice. The interplay of SEA with planning, unravels key issues and criticalities in both urban governance and environmental democracy. How can evaluation be developed to support the process? Structured evaluation methods applied in environmental assessment are maybe not sufficient to solve complex social conflicts. We point out some key reflections with the aim of opening up the discussion, by taking the case study of the environmental assessment of pollutant activities in the main industrial port cities of Southern Italy. They represent, at the moment, the most significant social criticality in our country, related to the interplay between environmental assessment and risk for labor. The paper focuses on the case study by mentioning the evolution of some thoughts about the red stripe that links sustainability, environmental democracy, and social evaluation, and illustrates the issues of these aspects in the case study, with the aim of underlining the difficulty of environmental assessment tools as a major support for planning processes, when social conflicts arise.

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Evolution Trends of Land Use/Land Cover in a Mediterranean Forest Landscape in Italy

Cited by 30 publications

References 41 publications

Strategic Environmental Assessment of Port Plans in Italy: Experiences, Approaches, Tools

Strategic Environmental Assessment of Port Plans in Italy: Experiences, Approaches, Tools

Detection of Fast Landscape Changes: The Case of Solar Modules on Agricultural Land

Evaluating Sustainability and Democracy in the Development of Industrial Port Cities: Some Italian Cases

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