Assessment of land use changes through an indicator-based approach: A case study from the Lamone river basin in Northern Italy

Benini, Lorenzo; Bandini, Vittoria; Marazza, Diego; Contin, A.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.03.016

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“…Not surprisingly, the overall proposed rank seems to list (many) similar indicators proposed by other studies in sustainability gathered from different methodologies. Some examples include soil health/quality [16,24]; biodiversity [24,68]; chemical inputs [9]; water use optimisation; and off-farm impacts, including waterways [69], productivity [68], yield [30,70]; and aesthetics [71]. Nevertheless, this investigation is unique as it objectively proposes lists of indicators ranked by their importance.…”

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Sustainability Assessment in Wine-Grape Growing in the New World: Economic, Environmental, and Social Indicators for Agricultural Businesses

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Abstract:Indicators have been used in many sustainability assessment methods, however, disagreements over a common definition and scope for the sustainability concept have led to many distinct assessment methods, which are not often directly comparable. Before developing a sustainability assessment, it is essential to: define sustainability and specify the viewpoint of the assessor, the purpose of the assessment, and the context and time frame of the assessment. This article presents a short list of indicators and a method that can be readily adopted by any agricultural business or region to assess sustainability, making any organization, region or crop qualitatively comparable. These indicators were proposed by 83 top-level executives in 14 group interviews conducted using our adapted nominal group technique (ANGT). Executives were sourced from wine-grape growing organisations from New World wine-producing countries that also owned vineyards, and they considered everyday management practices of farms. These indicators, grouped within three categories (economic, environmental, and social) were ranked by their importance. The method defines OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 8179 qualitative indicators that, in the context of distinct wine regions or crops should be quantified to maintain their relevance and usefulness.

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Sustainability Assessment in Wine-Grape Growing in the New World: Economic, Environmental, and Social Indicators for Agricultural Businesses

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“…Under the DPSIR framework, the environmental management process may be described as a feedback loop that controls a five-stage cycle (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2004). Recently, the DPSIR framework has become very popular worldwide (Turner et al, 1996;Newton et al, 2003;WSM, 2004;Scheren et al, 2004;Odermatt, 2004, Karageorgis et al, 2005Pirrone et al, 2005;Holman et al, 2005;Agyemang et al, 2007;Giupponi et al, 2004Giupponi et al, , 2006Chung and Lee, 2009a;Benini et al, 2010;Chung et al, 2011;Yang et al, 2012;Kagalou et al, 2012). According to Tscherning et al (2012), The DPSIR framework including considerable potential and usefulness of application could provide policy makers with meaningful explanations of cause and effect relationships.…”

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“…The DPSIR framework makes it possible to formalise all policy-making and management processes by identifying cause and effects links among complex elements of the chain of human-environment interaction. It emphasises the interaction between society (human activities in the river basin) and environment in integrated river basin management (Benini et al, 2010;Kagalou et al, 2012) The DPSIR framework is a five-stage cycle starting with "driving forces" through "pressures" to "states" and "impact" and leading to "response". The driving force refers to the underlying causes of environmental pressures.…”

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Integrated multi-criteria flood vulnerability approach using fuzzy TOPSIS and Delphi technique

Lee

Jun

Chung

2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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This study aims to develop a new procedure that combines multi-criteria spatial vulnerability analysis with the traditional linear probabilistic risk approach. This approach is named integrated fuzzy flood vulnerability assessment because it combines the watershed-based vulnerability framework with stream-based risk analysis. The Delphi technique and pressure-state-impact-response framework are introduced to objectively select evaluation criteria, and the fuzzy TOPSIS technique is proposed to address the uncertainty of weights to all criteria and crisp input data of all spatial units. ArcGIS is used to represent the spatial results to all criteria. This framework is applied to the south Han River basin in South Korea. As a result, the flood vulnerability ranking was derived and vulnerability characteristics of all spatial units were compared. This framework can be used to conduct a prefeasibility study for flood mitigation projects when various stakeholders should be included

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“…These metrics are frequently used to assess the structural characteristics of landscapes and to monitor changes in land use (Zhou et al 2012;Benini et al 2010;Uuemaa et al 2013). The expressions were as follows (McGarigal et al 2012):…”

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Spatial heterogeneous response of land use and landscape functions to ecological restoration: the case of the Chinese loess hilly region

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Ecological restorations over time may have profound effects on ecological and socio-economic systems. However, land-use changes and landscape functions that accompany ecological restorations can have spatial differentiations due to varied biophysical and socio-economic contexts. Therefore, these spatial differentiations caused by ecological restoration must be understood for better planning and management of restoration activities. The Baota District, with 576 villages in the center of the Chinese Loess Plateau, was selected as the study area because of its dramatic transition from cropland to grassland and shrubland from 1990 to 2010. Using the ArcGIS software and a k-means clustering analysis, an approach to identify types of land-use change patterns (TLCPs) at the village level was developed, and four TLCPs were delineated. The analysis indicated a general pattern of cropland decline by 21.6 %, but revealed significant spatial variations between villages in different TLCPs. Vegetation cover and soil retention, which are key proxies for landscape functions, increased by 22.70 and 108 %, respectively, from 2000 to 2010 with significant spatial heterogeneity. The Universal Soil Loss Equation was employed for the assessment of soil retention. The analysis of landscape metrics revealed a major trend of fragmentation and regularity on the county and village scale; however, spatial variations remained. Physical attributes were used to characterize different TLCPs, and notable differences were found. The spatial heterogeneous change in land use and landscape functions on the village scale may be useful for land use and ecological restoration management policy makers.

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Assessment of land use changes through an indicator-based approach: A case study from the Lamone river basin in Northern Italy

Cited by 89 publications

References 25 publications

Sustainability Assessment in Wine-Grape Growing in the New World: Economic, Environmental, and Social Indicators for Agricultural Businesses

Sustainability Assessment in Wine-Grape Growing in the New World: Economic, Environmental, and Social Indicators for Agricultural Businesses

Integrated multi-criteria flood vulnerability approach using fuzzy TOPSIS and Delphi technique

Spatial heterogeneous response of land use and landscape functions to ecological restoration: the case of the Chinese loess hilly region

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