Countryside vs City: A User-Centered Approach to Open Spatial Indicators of Urban Sprawl

Bonifazi, Alessandro; Sannicandro, Valentina; Attardi, Raffaele; Cugno, Gianluca Di; Torre, Carmelo Maria

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_12

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“…According to the above considerations, in the Ci.Vado investigation people were asked about the places in the Park where they find a particular personal feeling (Question 3), and the routes that they would recommend visiting (Question 6). Focused on specific locations within the Park area, the answers to these questions provided valuable information; indeed, the mentioned locations were recorded in QGIS, an Open Source Geographic Information System [69], which made it possible to produce a model for the spatial representation of the perceived landscape [70]. However, even the computer record of these data posed some fairly problematic issues.…”

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From Perceived Values to Shared Values: A Multi-Stakeholder Spatial Decision Analysis (M-SSDA) for Resilient Landscapes

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Panaro

2017

Sustainability

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This paper puts forth a Multi-Stakeholder Spatial Decision Analysis (M-SSDA) which combines Multi-Stakeholders Decision Analysis (M-SDA) and GIS processing based on a collaborative, hybrid and adaptive evaluative approach to support the elaboration of enhancement strategies designed for resilient landscapes. This methodology has been tested in the research project "Cilento Labscape: An integrated model for the activation of a Living Lab in the National Park of Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni", which was conducted in the Cilento National Park (Southern Italy). The aim of the methodology is to find alternative touristic routes for the promotion of the Park. The different steps in the process will be described, as will the employment of multiple tools/techniques (interviews, GIS tools, Semantic Analysis, and Geo-Statistical Analysis) to improve the reliability of the decision-making process. The most relevant results of the methodology will also be outlined in terms of the transition from the identification of the perceived landscape's values to the acknowledgement of the shared values, and their consequent employment for the outlining of new thematic itineraries for the Park. To realise sustainable territorial strategies and preserve the landscape through bottom-up decision-making processes, the different local communities need to gain a new awareness of their identity shared values and make an active contribution towards promoting and managing their site-specific resources.

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Section: Setting Spatial Representation Model and Elaborating Thematimentioning

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From Perceived Values to Shared Values: A Multi-Stakeholder Spatial Decision Analysis (M-SSDA) for Resilient Landscapes

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Panaro

2017

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“…Firstly, we produced a general reasoning about some spatial-economic indicators deriving from the analysis on land use transition, and then we tried to link this with the local economy. The study of land take and its detailed dynamics has already been presented in germinal studies oriented to profile and classify forms of urban sprawl [24]. A rough classification gave a better explanation of the never-ending pressures to expand a newly built environment, despite attempts to regenerate and re-use the existing one.…”

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“…The phenomenon has been a growing trend over the last decades due to the increase in the tourism flows. In Apulia, Salento is the most emblematic example [24,26]. According to the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), in 2014, approximately four million tourists showed some daily presence in Salento [27].…”

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“…The occupation of the countryside is mostly due to the same local inhabitants, who often own these seasonal farmhouses. Such autochthonous occupation is demonstrable by the use of a "dummy" variable, representing the anthropic pressure given by the costs of waste production and management (Figure 8), derived from the use of the LUIS (Land Use Intensity Seasonality [24]), measuring the seasonal variation in artificial land use intensity (under a summer peak assumption), by using monthly waste production as a proxy of intensity of use and environmental pressure, according to the formula: …”

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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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“…Instead, this paper will attempt to formulate a methodology with which to map the "static distributions" of the LS with data-derived estimates [36]. The Landscape Services Indicators (LSI) will be treated as the proxy-criteria, which simulate the current state of the services, while the spatial composite indicators will be created by aggregating the LSI using multi-criteria combinatorial rules [37,38]. The research will aim to explore the main theories and mapping approaches linked to the concept of the LS/ES and will provide a general framework for the visualisation of the relationships between the LS classes and well-being dimensions, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment [11].…”

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Landscape Services Assessment: A Hybrid Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS)

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Poli

2017

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Abstract:This research aims to test a scalable and transferable Geographic Information System (GIS)-based evaluation methodology for the identification, quantification and assessment of multi-functional landscape features. The evaluation of multi-functional features is one of the key tasks required when it comes to identifying the values that people attribute to landscapes, according to the principles of the European Landscape Convention. Mapping the static distribution of Landscape Services (LS) through data-derived estimates and performing spatial composite indicators are fundamental steps in understanding the current state of the Social-Ecological System (SES) of threatened or resilient landscapes. The methodological process is structured in four phases: intelligence (i), design (ii), choice (iii) and outcome (iv), according to the framework of the Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS). This process has been implemented in the case study of the National Park of Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni (Italy). The weighting of the spatial indicators, which simulates the model of LS-functioning for the study area, derives from an entropy-based method. Such a method, by which the weights are estimated without decisional agents, concerns a key-concept of information entropy theory, whereby the amount of information for each criterion determines its relative importance within a defined set of spatial criteria. The output of the model concerns mapping composite indicators of the LS; this involves the macro-categories of Regulating, Provisioning, and Cultural Services.

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Countryside vs City: A User-Centered Approach to Open Spatial Indicators of Urban Sprawl

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

From Perceived Values to Shared Values: A Multi-Stakeholder Spatial Decision Analysis (M-SSDA) for Resilient Landscapes

From Perceived Values to Shared Values: A Multi-Stakeholder Spatial Decision Analysis (M-SSDA) for Resilient Landscapes

Saving Soil for Sustainable Land Use

Landscape Services Assessment: A Hybrid Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS)

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