The quality of life conditioning with reference to the local environmental management: A pattern in Bivona country (Calabria, Southern Italy)

Abstract

a b s t r a c tThe increasing landscape urbanization, through goods and services production, as required by people needs, is often cause of environmental decay producing a sharp decrease in quality life for resident population.This paper aims to study some negative environmental feedbacks and the increase of geomorphological hazards in the coastal area, roughly urbanized, of Bivona country (Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Southern Italy). The analysis shows how the wrong and chaotic urban development, without any appropriate town planning scheme, has produced growing conditions of environmental decay with time. Consequently, it has been detected a decrease of prices in market estate commonly used as a marker of Human Quality Life. For this purpose, it has been applied the Hedonic model able to supply useful information about the gained or the reduced values of building industry caused by the improvement or by the worsening of environmental health conditions. The results highlight, with quantitative data, how the sustainable development of landscape must be realized through goods and services production respecting the environmental limits, in order to avoid negative territorial feedbacks able to decrease Human Quality Life. It has also been proposed a graphical representation about the trend of Human Quality Life in function of goods and services production.

Integrated coastal zone management in Italy: a gap between science and policy

“…These conditions have produced some losses in natural ecosystems with heavy consequences on environmental quality and on local economy (Girard 1993;Geoghegan 2002;Bengochea-Morancho 2003;Jim and Chen 2006;Ietto et al 2014). As regards Italian coastal zone, 30% of national population, as 16.9 million of inhabitants, lives in littoral regions, concentrated in an area restricted to 13% of national territory (ISPRA 2013).…”

“…In many urban agglomerations, the overcrowding and the consequent landscape urbanization along coastal areas have been occurred without any appropriate town-planning scheme. This kind of urban approach has produced conditions of environmental deterioration in marine and coastal ecosystems and has affected the geo-morphological unstable equilibrium, highlighting the risk of erosion on sandy beaches (Ietto et al 2014). Really, in the time lag 1950-2000, about the 30% of national coastline has suffered withdrawals wider than 25 m. In particular, for sandy beaches (58% of national coastline), spreading out along 4.863 Km in overall length, the 46% has suffered large changes producing a total negative sedimentary budget (Fig.…”

“…In particular, Calabrian coasts and some littoral areas along the Adriatic Sea have different and distinctive morphological characteristics that expose their coastal regions to a high erosional risk. Besides, the urban development in seaboard zone, often occurred without any appropriate town planning, produces a confused overbuilding in coastal landscape with heavy consequences in human wellbeing (Ietto et al 2014). In this way, actions as:…”

“…As a direct consequence, it has been occurred the progressive deterioration of the coastal morphological equilibrium and, accordingly, an increase of erosion in sandy beaches as well as flood hazards (Ietto et al 2014). In this critical context, it is evident that a holistic approach, such as ICZM policy, could be able to connect the right management of natural processes with the social and economic development in littoral areas (Kelleher and Kenchington 1990).…”

Economic Valuation of Ground Mounted Photovoltaic Systems

“…Since 2001 in the United States of America, the number of mounted photovoltaic systems has increased considerably, enough so, that the appraisers have had the problem of evaluating the market value of the properties characterized by energy saving arrangements [6][7][8][9], because there are no guidelines for the appraiser in this specific case.…”