The urban transformation of Italy's Adriatic coastal strip: Fifty years of unsustainability

Romano, Bernardino; Zullo, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.10.001

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“…With particular regard to mountain contexts the relational value seems to be helpful to highlight the cultural value of certain agricultural practices as well as to "link and enliven intrinsic and instrumental considerations" related to the sustainable management and use of natural resources [77]. The results showing urban growth on more productive lands are consistent with the trends that have occurred during the last decades, especially in flat zones and along the coastline of Italy [18]. The urban expansion has several implications other than the loss of the provisioning service, such as the land degradation processes due to soil sealing: the definite loss of agricultural lands over the medium-long period (Northern Italy [67]).…”

Section: Shrinkage Of the Agricultural Landssupporting

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Where Land Use Changes Occur: Using Soil Features to Understand the Economic Trends in Agricultural Lands

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This study investigates the major land use change processes over the 1990-2008 period in Abruzzo region (Central Italy) in relation to the characteristics of the soils and with particular regard to their capability for agricultural purposes, in order to highlight their implications on agricultural productivity. The relative changes in the agricultural incomes and land values were also estimated. To this end, we proposed an inventory approach as a flexible and feasible way for monitoring land use changes at multiple scales. As main outcomes, the shrinkage of agricultural lands and their internal changes (intensification vs. extensification processes) were highlighted. The shrinkage of agricultural lands was strictly related to: (a) reforestation process in mountain areas and less productive lands after land abandonment; and (b) urbanization on plains and more productive lands. Although the intensification process was demonstrated to have a positive effect on the overall regional agricultural incomes, especially on high quality soils, this was not adequate to compensate the economic loss due to the other land use changes, especially in marginal areas and low-to-medium quality soils. Finally, the paper discusses the geographical pattern of land use change processes across the region, including their interrelations and combined effects, and ultimately offers recommendations to decision-makers addressing future sustainable development objectives from local to global scale.

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Where Land Use Changes Occur: Using Soil Features to Understand the Economic Trends in Agricultural Lands

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“…Moreover, a quantitative similarity has been found between Italian regions and western Europe. They both have an average of 360 m 2 /inhab, despite having had very different situations in the 1950s [4,5]. The research then highlighted the huge increase in the rate of plains' urbanization (from 3.3% to 12%) and more recently of hills' urbanization (from 1.2% to 6%), in addition to the threat of fragmentation of the national ecosystem's fundamental hubs (protected areas and Natura 2000 areas).…”

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Urban Growth Control DSS Techniques for De-Sprinkling Process in Italy

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This article relates to the concept of urban expansion reduction in limited areas, called "de-sprinkling districts", and methods of designation of their range, as well as modelling and management of their network. This concept was developed from research concluded in 2016, referring to 50 years of urban evolution in Italy, that investigated and diagnosed the forms of urban growth focusing on the Italian model. For this model, the authors of this paper proposed an alternative definition (urban sprinkling) with respect to the sprawl international standard. Certainly this urban model established in Italy during the mentioned years is due to an inefficient control of peripheral areas and new conurbations' development, both in forms and functions. The cause is to be searched for in the importance given to single towns' general plans and the minor role of strategic planning (province and region). The political and social assumption that urban development according to the extreme sprinkling model is no longer feasible is gaining ground. However, implementing de-sprinkling processes will not be easy. In this paper, criteria to create a decision support system (DSS) for administrators and municipalities is illustrated. These criteria aim at dealing, technically and politically, with sprinkling and planning medium-term containment.

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“…Additionally, UREDI not only accurately reflected the overall condition of URED, but also revealed detailed information for each factor corresponding to the specific value of each component, this has important implications for policy makers in identifying the overall regional development pattern [51]. Moreover, the PCA method used in synergy with GIS technology made it possible to simulate URED temporal aspects in a spatially explicit manner, which strongly contributes to ensuring sustainability in regional development, especially in developing countries like China with unequal development between cities and rural areas [52][53][54][55][56].…”

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Spatio-Temporal Differentiation of Urban-Rural Equalized Development at the County Level in Chengdu

Deng

Wang²,

Ren

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Urban-rural equalized development (URED) is recognized as strongly contributing to the narrowing of societal, economic, life, and environmental gaps between urban and rural areas and is also an effective way to solve the "three rural issues" of rapid industrialization and urbanization in China. This paper explores the spatio-temporal patterns of URED in the state-designated experimental zone of Chengdu at a county level by using quantitative survey data from 2004 to 2013. The major findings are as follows: (1) the regions that are closer to the central city of Chengdu had a more optimistic urban-rural equalized development outlook (i.e., the three-tier geographical distribution phenomenon); (2) this distribution characteristic was gradually broken up in the process of urban and rural integration, and the differences between the three tiers has been narrowing; and (3) the gap between urban and rural areas has been significantly improved and exhibited a higher dynamic degree in the second and third tiers than in the first tier, which suggests a new development mode that exhibits better quality and higher sustainability. Given these results, the development orientation and strategy of each tier are discussed according to the characteristics of urban and rural equalized development.

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The urban transformation of Italy's Adriatic coastal strip: Fifty years of unsustainability

Cited by 112 publications

References 20 publications

Where Land Use Changes Occur: Using Soil Features to Understand the Economic Trends in Agricultural Lands

Where Land Use Changes Occur: Using Soil Features to Understand the Economic Trends in Agricultural Lands

Urban Growth Control DSS Techniques for De-Sprinkling Process in Italy

Spatio-Temporal Differentiation of Urban-Rural Equalized Development at the County Level in Chengdu

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