In 2006 European Commission stated that soil, fairly recognisable as an ecosystem structure, can be considered essentially as a non-renewable resource, thus triggering both studies for the assessment of land take phenomenon and actions for its mitigation and reduction. In last two decades, a deeper and ecosystem approach to land-use policies targeted to the sustainable development enabled a closer understanding of the complexity of urban dynamics leading to the necessity of multidimensional and integrated approaches to the assessment of the use of resources. The paper presents a multi-dimensional approach to evaluating the phenomenon of land take and soil sealing implemented on a sample of municipalities in Apulia Region, in Southern Italy. The construction of a composite indicator for comparative qualitative and quantitative measurement of land take and soil sealing among the municipalities is aimed at a better evaluation of future urbanisation scenarios and at a monitoring process of urban growth.
The Multidimensional Assessment of Land Take and Soil Sealing / Attardi, Raffaele; Cerreta, Maria; Valentina, Sannicandro; Carmelo M., Torre. - 9157:(2015), pp. 301-316. (Intervento presentato al convegno 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA) tenutosi a Banff, CANADA nel JUN 22-25, 2015) [10.1007/978-3-319-21470-2_21].
The Multidimensional Assessment of Land Take and Soil Sealing
ATTARDI, RAFFAELE;CERRETA, MARIA;
2015
Abstract
In 2006 European Commission stated that soil, fairly recognisable as an ecosystem structure, can be considered essentially as a non-renewable resource, thus triggering both studies for the assessment of land take phenomenon and actions for its mitigation and reduction. In last two decades, a deeper and ecosystem approach to land-use policies targeted to the sustainable development enabled a closer understanding of the complexity of urban dynamics leading to the necessity of multidimensional and integrated approaches to the assessment of the use of resources. The paper presents a multi-dimensional approach to evaluating the phenomenon of land take and soil sealing implemented on a sample of municipalities in Apulia Region, in Southern Italy. The construction of a composite indicator for comparative qualitative and quantitative measurement of land take and soil sealing among the municipalities is aimed at a better evaluation of future urbanisation scenarios and at a monitoring process of urban growth.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
