Planning restoration in a cultural landscape in Italy using an object-based approach and historical analysis

Marignani, Michela; Rocchini, Duccio; Torri, Dino; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Maccherini, Simona

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.06.005

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“…Some authors have carried out studies on land use change (i.e., deforestation) by using two date maps created by remotely-sensed data, in order to detect deforested land, and making it candidate for restoration [6,70,71]. Others have identified priority areas for restoration according to environmental quality.…”

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Improving Identification of Areas for Ecological Restoration for Conservation by Integrating USLE and MCDA in a GIS-Environment: A Pilot Study in a Priority Region Northern Mexico

Aguirre-Salado

Miranda-Aragón

Pompa-García

et al. 2017

IJGI

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Nature conservation is critical for securing an adequate supplying of environmental services to humans. Paradoxically, financial resources for conservation are normally scarce and, forest ecosystem restoration activities are expensive. So, a careful and detailed planning is vital for optimizing economic funds when ecosystems restoration practices are implemented. In this work, we developed a methodology to find physically-degraded sites in order to determine both, urgency and feasibility to carry out ecological forest restoration activities in the Priority Region for Conservation Xilitla in the state of San Luis Potosí (Mexico). Both, Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) were integrated together by using climatic, soil, remotely-sensed, and proximity data at a 30 m spatial resolution. The results indicated that, more than 80% of the bare soil land in the protected area is under several conditions that lead to feasible ecosystem restoration. This methodology can be further applied to know about the spatial location of soil degraded sites when planning forest restoration practices in natural protected areas.

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Improving Identification of Areas for Ecological Restoration for Conservation by Integrating USLE and MCDA in a GIS-Environment: A Pilot Study in a Priority Region Northern Mexico

Aguirre-Salado

Miranda-Aragón

Pompa-García

et al. 2017

IJGI

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“…Most landscape restoration to quarries adopts mainly an ecological approach [15]- [20] or a geomorphological approach [21]- [23]. Other approaches have also been adopted such as in [24]- [27]. The ecological approach takes into account the context of the landscape, both natural [28], [29] and cultural [30], in full cognisance of the general public appeal to same [30]- [33].…”

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Landscape Restoration and Rehabilitation: A Geocultural Design Approach

Bianco¹

2017

IJESD

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Abstract-The visual impact of open-pit mineral workings along sloping terrain generates conspicuous scars extending to the surrounding landscape. Such irreversible developments permanently alter the original landform. This is more pronounced in areas of high landscape value. The aim of this paper is to put forward the case for a contextual design of a restoration scheme grounded in the geophysical and cultural elements making up the landscape character and thus complimenting it. This is demonstrated through a case study of Gozo, a picturesque sister island of Malta, known as the island of Calypso after the legendary Homeric nymph, where such quarries have significant visual impact. Based on site contours derived from historical survey sheets and making reference to vernacular cultural features within the surroundings, a restoration and rehabilitation of a disused quarry based on a geocultural approach to landscape design was developed. Prior rehabilitated to sustainable agrarian parcels of land, the site contours were re-introduced together with field boundaries to pre-mineral operational status. This approach is a rational solution derived from rural vernacular architecture and ensures a landscape design solution which reinstates the scenic quality and the aesthetic experience of the area.

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“…Consequently, these tools inform landscape modifications across time [29,30,31]. Finally, by combining qualitative and indicator-based comparisons, spatial patterns and ecological processes are quantified and an assessment of the integrity of a landscape [32] is attained.…”

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Integrity in UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A comparative study for rural landscapes

Gullino

Larcher

2013

Journal of Cultural Heritage

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Since 2005, Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) is the standard by which United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) evaluates world cultural heritage site suitability. The sites worthy of UNESCO preservation as well as the parameters used to demonstrate OUV are diverse. Our study focused on the uniquely distinguished rural landscape sites and the OUV parameter of integrity. Integrity however, is an elusive concept for which UNESCO provides no definitional protocol, and for which the scientific

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Planning restoration in a cultural landscape in Italy using an object-based approach and historical analysis

Cited by 61 publications

References 76 publications

Improving Identification of Areas for Ecological Restoration for Conservation by Integrating USLE and MCDA in a GIS-Environment: A Pilot Study in a Priority Region Northern Mexico

Improving Identification of Areas for Ecological Restoration for Conservation by Integrating USLE and MCDA in a GIS-Environment: A Pilot Study in a Priority Region Northern Mexico

Landscape Restoration and Rehabilitation: A Geocultural Design Approach

Integrity in UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A comparative study for rural landscapes

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