Effects of historical land-use change in the Mediterranean environment

Ruiz, Itxaso; Sanz-Sánchez, María José

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139315

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“…Zambon et al 2018b ); (ii) loss of semi-natural vegetation in fringe areas (e.g. Ruiz and Sanz-Sánchez 2020 ); (iii) the increasing risk of soil salinisation due to increasing groundwater abstractions as a result of concurrent residential and agricultural land/water uses (e.g. Tomaz et al 2020 ); (iv) the processes involved in soil erosion and contamination (e.g.…”

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Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe

Seifollahi-Aghmiuni

Kalantari

Egidi

et al. 2022

Ambio

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Climate change and landscape transformation have led to rapid expansion of peri-urban areas globally, representing new ‘laboratories’ for the study of human–nature relationships aiming at land degradation management. This paper contributes to the debate on human-driven land degradation processes by highlighting how natural and socioeconomic forces trigger soil depletion and environmental degradation in peri-urban areas. The aim was to classify and synthesise the interactions of urbanisation-driven factors with direct or indirect, on-site or off-site, and short-term or century-scale impacts on land degradation, focussing on Southern Europe as a paradigmatic case to address this issue. Assuming complex and multifaceted interactions among influencing factors, a relevant contribution to land degradation was shown to derive from socioeconomic drivers, the most important of which were population growth and urban sprawl. Viewing peri-urban areas as socio-environmental systems adapting to intense socioeconomic transformations, these factors were identified as forming complex environmental ‘syndromes’ driven by urbanisation. Based on this classification, we suggested three key measures to support future land management in Southern European peri-urban areas.

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Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe

Seifollahi-Aghmiuni

Kalantari

Egidi

et al. 2022

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“…Researchers carried out studies dealing with land-use changes at different scales, i.e., at the morphoclimatic regions [24][25][26][27][28][29], continental [30], national [23,[31][32][33][34] and regional scale [35][36][37][38]. However, it is at the basin scale that the above-mentioned relationships between land-use changes, soil erosion processes, river solid discharges and, in coastal areas, shoreline dynamics are clearer [39][40][41][42].…”

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Land-Use Changes in the Sele River Basin Landscape (Southern Italy) between 1960 and 2012: Comparisons and Implications for Soil Erosion Assessment

2021

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In river basins, the deep interrelationships between land-use changes, soil erosion and rivers and shoreline dynamics are clearer than at a national or regional scale. Southern Italy is an ecologically fragile, desertification-prone territory where land-use changes in the last decades were significant. Notwithstanding this, studies dealing with multidecadal land-use changes in large-sized river basins of Southern Italy and their implications on soil erosion are missing. In this study, we assessed the land-use changes that occurred between 1960 and 2012 in the 3245 km2-wide Sele River basin. We carried out GIS-aided comparisons and analysis of two land-use maps and interpreted the results in terms of soil erosion intensity based on a detailed review of the scientific literature. The results confirmed the trend of the inner areas of Italy and, in particular, of the Campania region moving towards more pristine conditions, with an increase in forest cover, mainly at the expense of grasslands. Agricultural areas remained substantially unchanged, while the area of urban settlements increased. The diffuse afforestation of slopes suggested an overall decrease in soil erosion intensity, which was fully coherent with the geomorphological evolution of both the Sele River and local shoreline reported in literature.

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“…Changes in land-use in the Mediterranean Basin have intensified desertification and landscape degradation during the Holocene. Likely, even small changes in land-use had multiple effects on several components of the environment and hydrological system, which, subsequently, affected the regional climate (Ruiz and Sanz, 2020). Today the Basin is subject to increasing human pressure due to affluence growth and rising demand for goods and services, with subsequent negative impacts on biodiversity, the local climate, the soil's structure and health, and the carbon, nutrient, and water cycles (Plan bleu, 2016).…”

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Assessment of sustainable land management practices in Mediterranean rural regions

Ruiz

Almagro

Jalón

et al. 2020

Journal of Environmental Management

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Effects of historical land-use change in the Mediterranean environment

Cited by 29 publications

References 37 publications

Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe

Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe

Land-Use Changes in the Sele River Basin Landscape (Southern Italy) between 1960 and 2012: Comparisons and Implications for Soil Erosion Assessment

Assessment of sustainable land management practices in Mediterranean rural regions

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