Terraced landscapes: From an old best practice to a potential hazard for soil degradation due to land abandonment

Tarolli, Paolo; Preti, Federico; Romano, Nunzio

doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2014.03.002

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“…The best-known protected terraced landscapes are mentioned in the works of Tarolli, Preti, and Romano (2014), Varotto (2015), Peters (2015) and Andlar, Šrajer in Trojanović (2017) (Register … 2016). Based on the justifications for inclusion on the list and the explanations of the reasons for protection, we identified heritage units (unambiguously or by making inferences based on knowing the actual conditions) that have been selected as worth protecting due to the important role of agricultural terraces.…”

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Terraced landscapes as protected cultural heritage sites

Kladnik¹,

Hribar²,

Geršič³

2017

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This article presents the current state of protection of terraced landscapes as an important type of cultural landscape, both globally and in Slovenia. The UNESCO World Heritage List, the Satoyama Initiative list, and the Slovenian Register of Immovable Cultural Heritage are analyzed. The findings show that terraces rarely appear as a factor justifying protection, even though certain progress has been made in recent years. At least globally, this has clearly been contributed to by the 2010 adoption of the Honghe Declaration. Slovenia shows both a lack of appropriate criteria for identifying terraced landscapes worth protecting and an insufficiently systematic treatment of heritage sites that are already being protected.

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Terraced landscapes as protected cultural heritage sites

Kladnik¹,

Hribar²,

Geršič³

2017

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“…Mediterranean and insular Spain and Greece (Tarolli et al, 2014) are some example. In the recent years some disastrous events involved terraced slopes: in 2011, during the 82 Cinque Terre flood (Liguria, northern Italy) (Brandolini et al, 2017;Luino and Turconi, 2017), many terraces collapsed and the subsequent debris filled villages at a height of 84 about 3 m, and in 2014, in the Leivi village during the Chiavari flood (Liguria) a terraced slope collapsed destroying a house and causing 2 fatalities (Faccini et al, 2017;Luino 86 and Turconi, 2017 Prenger-Berninghoff et al, 2014).…”

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“…Furthermore, the modifications are often interesting even the hinterland: besides the urban sprawl and the 72 fragmentation caused by infrastructures, in some areas the ancient man-made terraces realized for agricultural practice and actually largely abandoned, constitute an increasing 74 factor of geomorphological hazard (Brancucci and Paliaga, 2006;Tarolli et al, 2014;. In the recent years many evidences have been arising in Italy: large areas 76 of Liguria (Brandolini et al, 2017;Cevasco et al, 2017) and Toscana (Bazzoffi and Gardin, 2011) are interested by terraces instability that may turn in source of 78 geomorphologic hazard.…”

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A spatial multicriteria prioritizing approach for geohydrological risk mitigation planning in small and densely urbanized Mediterranean basins

Paliaga¹,

Faccini²,

Luino³

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16Landslides and floods, particularly flash floods, occurred currently in many Mediterranean catchments as a consequence of heavy rainfall events, causing damages 18 and sometimes casualties. The high hazard is often associated to intense urbanization in particular along the coastline where streams are habitually culverted. The necessary risk 20 mitigation strategies should be applied at catchment scale, considering the concurrent landslides and flood events and would need to be accurately planned in order to optimize 22 the available economic resources. In the present work 21 small catchments in a high hazard area have been assessed and 24 compared through three sets of parameters: one describing the morphometricmorphological features related to flood and landslide hazard, another describing the 26 degree of urbanization and of anthropogenic modifications at catchment scale and the last related to the elements that are exposed to risk. The aim of the research is to constitute a 28 priority scale among the small catchments, applying the multicriteria analysis technique to the descriptive parameters and giving a support tool for decision makers, supporting a 30 strong scheduling of long-time planning interventions at catchment scale. This approach could be applied in similar context, even at sub-catchment scale, after 32 identifying a suitable set of descriptive parameters depending on the active geomorphological processes and the kind of anthropogenic modification, obtaining the 34 optimization of economic resources. 36

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“…The conservation of water (increasing infi ltration, decreasing runoff, reducing evaporation and increasing soil water storage) and that of soil go hand-in-hand; therefore, practices which conserve water also conserve soil (Arnaez et al 2015). Numerous publications in countries such as Spain (Douglas et al 1994, Gallart et al 1994, Cerdà 1998, Italy (Mauro 2011, Tarolli et al 2014, Germany (Lóc-zy 1998), Mexico (Mountjoy and Gliessman 1988), Nepal (Gardner and Gerrard 2003), and China (Quine et al 1999, Cao et al 2013, Yi et al 2017, as well as numerous conferences, confi rm the signifi cance of both the threat posed by the erosion process, as well as the methods of protection against this phenomenon (Arnaez et al 2015). Terracing is one…”

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Determining the spacing of ridge terraces on arable land in central and south-western Poland

Baryła¹,

Żmuda²

2017

Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW. Land Reclamation

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The practice of many countries has shown that terraces can significantly prevent land degradation processes such as excessive soil erosion, landslides. Condition is good layout, proper construction, and then proper maintenance. Practical application in many countries showed that terraces can significantly prevent processes leading to the degradation of land, such as the excessive erosion of soils and landslides. The requirement for this is well-planned, adequate construction, and later – proper conservation. In Poland this is a little popular method. In the article, the dorsal spacing terraces were calculated for two catchments – in the central and south-western parts of Poland. Meteorological and soil data were used for Puczniew station (Ner catchment) and Boleścin station (Mielnica catchment). Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was performed to assess the compatibility of a given feature with a normal distribution, then the distribution of the probability distribution was developed. For probability 1, 50 and 90% the spacing of terraces was calculated using Ramser and Morgan method. The results obtained were combined with the results from the USLE model. Hydraulic methods have shown greater spacing for the Mielnica catchment (loess soils) compared to the Ner basin (clay loam). For the USLE model, the larger spacing was calculated for the Ner basin. From the practical application to the acceptance of land user will be the maximum distance calculated by different methods. The highest terrace spacing values were obtained using the Morgan method for the Mielnica catchment, for the Ner catchment model USLE.

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Terraced landscapes: From an old best practice to a potential hazard for soil degradation due to land abandonment

Cited by 376 publications

References 89 publications

Terraced landscapes as protected cultural heritage sites

Terraced landscapes as protected cultural heritage sites

A spatial multicriteria prioritizing approach for geohydrological risk mitigation planning in small and densely urbanized Mediterranean basins

Determining the spacing of ridge terraces on arable land in central and south-western Poland

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