Land Suitability Evaluation for Agro-forestry: Definition of a Web-Based Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS): Preliminary Results

Modica, Giuseppe; Pollino, Maurizio; Lanucara, Simone; Porta, Luigi La; Pellicone, Gaetano; Fazio, Salvatore Di; Fichera, Carmelo Riccardo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42111-7_31

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“…It should be matched with such concepts as adaptive cycles and resilience [63]. Certainly, a consolidated quest for such long-term safeguarding of resources and economies across sectors, zones, disciplines and stakeholder groups is not possible without a new sense of "commons" [64,65] and new forms of governance. …”

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confidence: 99%

The Fourth Regime of Open Space

Gulinck

Marcheggiani

Verhoeve³

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:This article reinterprets open space as the theatre of adaptive regimes in the interfering wakes of two major waves of transformation: the agricultural and the urban transformation. The aim of the wave regime concept is to accommodate traditional and emerging land uses in a logical scheme of co-existing regimes separated by transition waves in space and time. Each wave corresponds to a transitional stage from one set to another set of value regime, which by the agents of the transformation is interpreted as a major value increase. The current struggle for space and the difficult interpretations of quality and sustainability can be explained as expressions of competition between value regimes. These value regimes tend to be driven and perpetuated by customary paradigms of land-use planning and management (urban planning, ecology, agronomy, etc.). Land-use sectors ask for rather unambiguous definitions and clear use rights of land use categories and zoning, leaving limited possibility for interaction, mixed regimes and innovative multifunctional land-use. New service demands, new sustainability and resilience urgencies challenge these customary land-use planning paradigms and their rules and instruments. This paper acknowledges a third wave and consequent fourth regime. This regime seeks overall increased sustainability and resilience in open spaces, stressing the strategic importance of unsealed soils and other life conditioning substrates. Different existing land-use models, such as "transition towns", "agroforestry" and many more, can be interpreted as fourth regime examples, but altogether there is a need for more coordination or integration to turn the third wave concept into a real "wave". A specific target is to scan territories for characteristics and values according to the prevailing regimes, and assess each unit in terms of third wave transition opportunities, even within active uses that may be at odds with customary rules and expectations. This is illustrated for cases of illegal intake of farmland for non-agricultural activities and for domestic gardens as a missing category in customary rural and land use policy.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Fourth Regime of Open Space

Gulinck

Marcheggiani

Verhoeve³

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…Some of the most promising lines of future DSS developments include the use of the web to enable easy access to public data and enhance the capability of participatory decision-making processes [8]. Recent developments in S-DSSs occurring in other domains [32][33][34] are delivering interesting opportunities in land management and planning by combining open-access WEB-GIS systems and open-source codes. In fact, this combination provides -through the web-freely access of critical geospatial data to any end-user while the open-source approach creates strong synergies with new code development, especially those occurring in other domains.…”

Section: Forest Dss Systemsmentioning

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A Geospatial Decision Support System Tool for Supporting Integrated Forest Knowledge at the Landscape Scale

Marano

Langella

Basile

et al. 2019

Forests

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Forests are part of a complex landscape mosaic and play a crucial role for people living both in rural and urbanized spaces. Recent progresses in modelling and Decision Support System (DSS) applied to the forestry sector promise to improve public participative forest management and decision-making in planning and conservation issues. However, most DSS are not open-source systems, being in many cases software designed for site-specific applications in forest ecosystems. Furthermore, some of these systems often miss challenging the integration of other land uses within the landscape matrix, which is a key issue in modern forestry planning aiming at linking recent developments in open-source Spatial-DSS systems to sectorial forest knowledge. This paper aims at demonstrating that a new type of S-DSS, developed within the Life+ project SOILCONSWEB over an open-source Geospatial Cyber-Infrastructure (GCI) platform, can provide a strategic web-based operational tool for forest resources management and multi-purpose planning. In order to perform simulation modelling, all accessible via the Web, the GCI platform supports acquisition and processing of both static and dynamic data (e.g., spatial distribution of soil and forest types, growing stock and yield), data visualization and computer on-the-fly applications. The DSS forestry tool has been applied to a forest area of 5,574 ha in the southern Apennines of Peninsular Italy, and it has been designed to address forest knowledge and management providing operational support to private forest owners and decision-makers involved in management of forest landscape at different levels. Such a geospatial S-DSS tool for supporting integrated forest knowledge at landscape represents a promising tool to implement sustainable forest management and planning. Results and output of the platform will be shown through a short selection of practical case studies.

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“…The use of photovoltaics in the Apulian Region has been widespread and represents more than half of the new coverage, located frequently in the highlands from Foggia to Brindisi. In the territory of Brindisi, the networks and areas for production and distribution of energy cover more than 8/10 of the transition of artificial soil from 2006 to 2011 [35,36]. Half of the preexisting coverage in 2006 is due to three power stations inside the border line of Brindisi (the power station "Federico II" of Brindisi is the second largest in Europe) [37,38], and the rest is due to the coverage of rural ground by solar panels.…”

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“…In Figure 12, the phenomenon is more evident. In Table 13, we register the largest transition in Apulia, from rural land (2.1, 2.2, 2.4 CLC classes) to industrial uses (1.2 CLC classes), with 85% due to solar farms and power stations and, as consequence, the greatest MLV (Table 14) and the largest increase of land value (Table 15) due to the new industrial areas [36]. …”

Section: Solar Farms In Rural Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Saving Soil for Sustainable Land Use

2017

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This paper experiments with some costs-benefit analyses, seeking a balance between soil-take and buildability due to land policy and management. The activities have been carried out inside the MITO lab (Lab for Multimedia Information for Territorial Objects) of the Polytechnic University of Bari. Reports have been produced about the Southern Italian Apulia Region, which is rich in farmland and coastline, often invaded by construction, with a severe loss of nature, a degradation of the soil, landscape, and ecosystem services. A methodological approach to the assessment of sustainability of urban expansion related, on one hand, to "plus values" deriving from the transformation of urban fringes and, on the other hand to the analysis of the transition of land-use, with the aim of "saving soil" against urban sprawl. The loss of natural and agricultural surfaces due to the expanding artificial lands is an unsustainable character of urban development, especially in the manner in which it was carried out in past decades. We try to assess how plus value can be considered "unearned", and to understand if the "land value recapture" can compensate for the negative environmental effects of urban expansion. We measured the transition from farmlands and natural habitat to urbanization with the support of the use of some Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, in favor of a new artificial land cover in the region of Apulia, Southern Italy. Data have been collected at the regional scale and at the local level, producing information about land use change and increases of property values due to improvements, referring to the 258 municipalities of the region. Looking at the results of our measurements, we started an interpretation of the driving forces that favor the plus values due to the transition of land-use. Compensation, easements, recapture of plus value, and improvement are, nowadays in Italy, discussed as major land-policy tools for managing environmental and landscape preservation. The interplay between urban economics and environmentally sound regulations reveals some controversial issues in urban governance and nature preservation: perhaps some abstract regulations, conjoined with non-case-oriented urban policies, consider these keywords as the old chemists considered the Philosopher's Stone. The analyses show criticality emerging themes in emblematic cases, studied in some municipal contexts.

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Land Suitability Evaluation for Agro-forestry: Definition of a Web-Based Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS): Preliminary Results

Cited by 35 publications

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The Fourth Regime of Open Space

The Fourth Regime of Open Space

A Geospatial Decision Support System Tool for Supporting Integrated Forest Knowledge at the Landscape Scale

Saving Soil for Sustainable Land Use

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