A5090403282- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Forest Management and Policy
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Agricultural Systems and Practices
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Rural development and sustainability
- Historical and Environmental Studies
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Date Palm Research Studies
University of Florence
2016-2025
Sapienza University of Rome
2018
Abstract Research gaps in understanding flood changes at the catchment scale caused by forest management, agricultural practices, artificial drainage, and terracing are identified. Potential strategies addressing these proposed, such as complex systems approaches to link processes across time scales, long‐term experiments on physical‐chemical‐biological process interactions, a focus connectivity patterns spatial scales. It is suggested that will stimulate new research coherently addresses...
During 25 October 2011, an extremely intense rainfall event occurred in Eastern Liguria and Northern Tuscany. Severe damages were registered the Monterosso Vernazza basins, located famous area of Cinque Terre, which have been affected by hundreds landslides, mud flows, erosions. The main feature Terre landscape is presence terraced cultivations on steep slopes facing sea. represents a remarkable cultural landscape, National Park, included World Heritage List UNESCO. This work aims to analyze...
The recent National Strategic Plan 2007-2013 has introduced landscape as a strategic objective of the rural sector. This represents minor revolution in way visualizing role landscape, together with that agriculture and territory whole, demonstrates importance treating systematic point view. As part Efficond project, three sample areas have been identified, each about 800-1000 hectares, zones important historical - cultural landscapes are included Catalogue Historical Rural Landscapes. For...
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) program, promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), recognizes multifunctional role of agricultural heritage systems. Traditional terraced landscapes represent important touristic destinations, Chianti is one most well-known areas Italy for rural tourism. high-quality landscape Lamole, consisting forests areas, included in Italian National Register Historical Rural Landscapes thanks to local farmers who recently...
Abstract Traditional oases represent unique forms of adaptation to extreme environmental conditions, developed through the centuries by local farmers support their livelihood, combining different crops (date palms, fruit trees, vegetables and fodder) with livestock breeding. Despite social, economic cultural importance, these agroforestry systems are currently facing multiple socio-environmental threats. The aim paper is investigate variety Ecosystem Services (ES) main threats related...
Abstract Context In 2005 Marc Antrop published the article “Why landscapes of past are important for future” that became a milestone traditional and cultural research planning, highlighting their multifunctional role importance sustainable development. Objectives After 20 years, this paper analyzes current rural in relation to concept Ecosystem Services, understand if why these still future areas communities. Results Traditional represent resource capable providing wide range Services local...
Terraced areas have existed in Italy since ancient times, and they continue to be characteristic elements of the cultural identity country. The progressive abandonment rural farmland that began 1960s has led disintegration disappearance many terraces, representing one problems connected with deterioration historic Tuscan agricultural landscape. This research aims provide a contribution territorial analysis terraced landscapes at regional scale. preliminary phase study involved setting up...
The European continent still has a rich heritage of rural landscapes built up over thousands years. UNESCO-sCBD Florence Declaration 2014, describes it as being predominantly biocultural landscape, assimilates economic, social, cultural, and environmental processes in time space. This definition also includes the forests, which have been affected by several centuries human action are part cultural heritage. However, an approach to forest often employing same tools used for nature...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTMeat Flavor Chemistry, Precursors of Beef FlavorO. F. Batzer, A. T. Santoro, M. C. Tan, W. Landmann, and B. S. SchweigertCite this: J. Agric. Food Chem. 1960, 8, 6, 498–501Publication Date (Print):November 1, 1960Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 November 1960https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf60112a023https://doi.org/10.1021/jf60112a023research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTBeef Flavor, Identification of Some Beef Flavor PrecursorsO. F. Batzer, A. T. Santoro, and W. LandmannCite this: J. Agric. Food Chem. 1962, 10, 2, 94–96Publication Date (Print):March 1, 1962Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 March 1962https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf60120a004https://doi.org/10.1021/jf60120a004research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views193Altmetric-Citations52LEARN ABOUT...
In the context of worldwide increasing interest on role forests for global warming and biodiversity targets, there is a growing tendency to consider need increase not only extension forests, but also their degree naturalness. These indications have been recently included in important political documents such as European Green Deal enacted by Union, affecting 28 member states continent, with aim fighting deforestation desertification. Italy national regional forest inventories, well planning...
Europe retains a great variety of cultural landscapes that constitute significant part the European heritage. In last decades, these high-quality are facing several challenges due to socio-economic transformations often compromise their integrity. This situation is even worse for terraced landscapes, as in case Porto Venere and Cinque Terre UNESCO World Heritage List site. The Management Plan developed this area needs deal with different issues: abandonment cultivations growth secondary...
Protected areas have a key role in preserving biodiversity at different scales, as well providing ecosystem services to rural communities. Natura 2000 is the primary conservation network EU level, with aim of protecting most valuable species and habitats; it covers around 18.6% EU’s land area. The this study assess evolution forest cover sites period 2012–2018 through GIS-based spatial analyses High-Resolution Layers produced framework Copernicus initiative. In 2018, fifteen countries had...
The importance of rural landscapes is recognized at both the international and national level. Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) has established a program called Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) agricultural are also listed in UNESCO World List. Bank Convention on Biological Diversity have departments working this topic, while landscape been included Common Policy European Union 2020–2027. One most important tools for management, conservation valorization...
Traditional agricultural systems are receiving increasing attention at the international level due to their multifunctional role. The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) aims identify global importance, preserve landscape, agrobiodiversity traditional knowledge apply principles dynamic conservation promote sustainable development. Biodiversity associated practices is particularly important, especially in difficult...
Terraced systems currently represent an indubitable added value for Tuscany, as well other Italian regions and several Mediterranean countries. This goes beyond their original function of hosting new areas cultivation. The hydrological functions performed by these systems, including control erosion, stabilisation the slopes, prolongation runoff times possible reduction volumes surface runoff, are well-known. In addition, they also play a strategic role in conservation biodiversity...
Landscape restoration projects are among the most extensive conservation actions at global level that have been promoted in last three decades. Such projects, however, cannot exclusively be based on of natural and semi-natural ecosystems, but should focus a cultural landscape approach balancing environmental socio-economic needs. One largest realized five years was World Bank’s Burundi Restoration Resilience Project (PRRPB). PRRPB utilized an integrated to restore social-ecological systems...
Cinque Terre, one of the most important Italian cultural landscapes, has not been spared from depopulation and agricultural abandonment processes, that involved many rural areas in Europe, as a consequence socio-economic transformations occurred after WWII. Depopulation areas, especially mountains or terraced caused significant environmental consequences, such decrease biodiversity, landscape homogenization, increase hydrogeological forest fires risks. Terre National Park (5TNP) was...
Abstract Chagras are complex agroforestry systems developed by indigenous populations of the Amazon region based on shifting agriculture, as part a system that includes harvesting wild fruits and plants, hunting fishing. During centuries, thanks to their traditional knowledge, have deep relationship with surrounding environment, as, living in remote places, they must be self-sufficient. The result is chagra , whose cycle seven basic steps establish successful sustainable system, starting...
Abstract Indonesia is one of the countries with highest forest loss rates in world. Protected areas (PAs) can have a key role counteracting deforestation, especially if they are combined active involvement local communities, rather than be only based on strict nature conservation. The study aims at assessing and measuring transformations 1950–2017 through GIS-based spatial analyses, to evaluate PAs preserving forests from deforestation. At national level dramatically decreased, passing 78.3%...
Abstract Argan tree is endemic of Moroccan arid regions, providing socioeconomic and cultural benefits since ancient times. This study identifies the emerging threats for argan forest, opportunities related to innovative uses products byproducts. forest facing pressure from overgrazing, demand oil nuts, land degradation, despite its recognition as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve inclusion in FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme. Innovative use recycling waste...