438
Views
13
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Land-cover changes and sustainable development in a rural cultural landscape of central Italy: classical trends and counter-intuitive results

, , , , , & show all
Pages 27-36 | Received 12 Apr 2016, Accepted 18 May 2016, Published online: 23 Jun 2016

References

  • Agnoletti M. 2007. The degradation of traditional landscape in a mountain area of Tuscany during the 19th and 20th centuries: implications for biodiversity and sustainable management. Forest Ecol Manage. 249:5–17.
  • Antrop M. 2004. Landscape change and the urbanization process in Europe. Landsc Urban Plan. 67:9–26.
  • Anzalone B. 1961. Osservazioni fitosociologiche su alcune faggete depresse del Lazio [Phytosociological observations on some beech woodlands in Latium]. Ann Bot. 27:120–134.
  • Attorre F, Bruno M, Francesconi F, Valenti R, Bruno F. 2000. Landscape changes of Rome through tree-lined roads. Landsc Urban Plan. 49:115–128.
  • Bakker MM, van Doorn AM. 2009. Farmer-specific relationships between land use change and landscape factors: introducing agents in empirical land use modelling. Land Use Policy. 26:809–817.
  • Bender O, Boehmer HJ, Jens D, Schumacher KP. 2005. Analysis of land-use change in a sector of Upper Franconia (Bavaria, Germany) since 1850 using land register records. Landsc. Ecol. 20:149–163.
  • Blasi C. 2010. Il sistema ambientale: ecologia del paesaggio e rete ecologica [The environmental system: landscape ecology and ecological network]. In: VV. AA, editor. Provincia di Roma: Piano Territoriale Provinciale Generale (PTPG). [cited 30 Apr 2016]. Available from: http://ptpg.provincia.roma.it:8080/.
  • Bossard M, Feranec J, Otahel J. 2000. CORINE land cover technical guide—Addendum 2000 (Tech. Rep. No. 40). Copenhagen: European Environment Agency.
  • Caneva G. 2010. Cultural landscapes and climate change. In: Lefevre RA, Sabbioni C, editor. Climate change and cultural heritage. Bari: Edipuglia.
  • Cetin M. 2015a. Evaluation of the sustainable tourism potential of a protected area for landscape planning: a case study of the ancient city of Pompeipolis in Kastamonu. Int J Sust Dev World Ecol. 22:490–495.
  • Cetin M. 2015b. Using GIS analysis to assess urban green space in terms of accessibility: case study in Kutahya. Int J Sust Dev World Ecol. 22:420–424.
  • Chorianopoulos I, Pagonis T, Koukoulas S, Drymoniti S. 2010. Planning, competitiveness and sprawl in the Mediterranean city: the case of Athens. Cities. 27:249–259.
  • Claessen L, Schoorl JM, Verburg PH, Geraedts L, Veldkamp A. 2009. Modelling interactions and feedback mechanisms between land use change and landscape processes. Agr Ecosyst Environ. 129:157–170.
  • Di Pietro R, Azzella MM, Facioni L. 2010. The forest vegetation of the Tolfa-Ceriti Mountains (Northen Latium-Central Italy). Hacquetia. 9:91–150.
  • Droste B, Plachter H, Rossler M, editors. 1995. Cultural landscapes of universal value—components of a global strategy. Jena: G. Fischer and UNESCO.
  • Esteves TCJ, Kirkby MJ, Shakesby RA, Ferreira AJD, Soares JAA, Irvine BJ, Ferreira CSS, Coelho COA, Bento CPM, Carreiras MA. 2012. Mitigating land degradation caused by wildfire: application of the PESERA model to fire-affected sites in central Portugal. Geoderma. 191:40–50.
  • Falcucci A, Maiorano L, Boitani L. 2007. Changes in land-use/land-cover patterns in Italy and their implications for biodiversity conservation. Landsc Ecol. 22:617–631.
  • Fanelli G, Bertarelli M, Bianco PM, Caroselli V, Cazzagon P, D’Angeli D, De Corso S, De Sanctis M, Gioia A, Guerra A, et al. 2007. Carta della vegetazione della Provincia di Roma [Vegetation map of the Rome municipality]. Rome: Provincia di Roma.
  • Foley JA, DeFries R, Asner GP, Barford C, Bonan G, Carpenter SR, Chapin FS, Coel MT, Daily GC, Gibbs HK, et al. 2005. Global consequences of land use. Science. 309:570–574.
  • Fowler PJ. 2003. World heritage cultural landscapes 1992–2002. Paris: UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
  • Frondoni R, Mollo B, Capotorti G. 2011. A landscape analysis of land cover change in the Municipality of Rome (Italy): Spatio-temporal characteristics and ecological implications of land cover transitions from 1954 to 2001. Landsc. Urban Plan. 100:117–128.
  • Kalnay E, Cai M. 2003. Impact of urbanization and land-use change on climate. Nature. 423:528–531.
  • Kasanko M, Barredo JI, Lavalle C, McCormick N, Demicheli L, Sagris V, Brezger A. 2006. Are European cities becoming dispersed? A comparative analysis of 15 European urban areas. Landsc Urban Plan. 77:111–130.
  • Lambin EF, Geist HJ, Lepers E. 2003. Dynamics of land-use and land-cover change in tropical regions. Annu Rev Environ Resour. 28:205–241.
  • Lambin EF, Meyfroidt P. 2011. Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity. P Natl Acad Sci USA. 108:3465–3472.
  • Latorre JG, Garcia-Latorre J, Sanchez-Picón A. 2001. Dealing with aridity: socio-economic structures and environmental changes in an arid Mediterranean region. Land Use Policy. 18:53–64.
  • Lawrence D, Peart DR, Leighton M. 1998. The impact of shifting cultivation on a rainforest landscape in West Kalimantan: spatial and temporal dynamics. Landsc Ecol. 13:135–148.
  • Longhi C, Musolesi A. 2007. European cities in the process of economic integration: towards structural convergence. Ann Reg Sci. 41:333–351.
  • Luque SS. 2000. The challenge to manage the biological integrity of nature reserves: a landscape ecology perspective. Int J Remote Sens. 21:2613–2643.
  • McNeill JR, editor. 1992. The mountains of the mediterranean world—an environmental history. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Metzger MJ, Rounsevell MDA, Acosta-Michlik L, Leemans R, Schroter D. 2006. The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change. Agr Ecosyst Environ. 114:69–85.
  • Millington JD, Perry GL, Romero-Calcerrada R. 2007. Regression techniques for examining land use/cover change: a case study of a Mediterranean landscape. Ecosystems. 10:562–578.
  • Olsson EGA, Austrheim G, Grenne SN. 2000. Landscape change patterns in mountains, land use and environmental diversity, Mid-Norway 1960–1993. Landsc Ecol. 15:155–170.
  • Petit CC, Lambin EF. 2002. Long term land cover changes in the Belgian Ardennes (1775-1929): model-based reconstructions vs. historical maps. Glob Change Biol. 8:616–630.
  • Pimm SL, Lawton JH. 1998. Planning for biodiversity. Science. 279:2068–2069.
  • Poyatos R, Latron J, Llorens P. 2003. Land use and land cover change after agricultural abandonment: the case of a Mediterranean mountain area (Catalan Pre-Pyrenees). Mount Res Dev. 23:362–368.
  • Reger B, Otte A, Waldhardt R. 2007. Identifying patterns of land-cover change and their physical attributes in a marginal European landscape. Landsc Urban Plan. 81:104–113.
  • Salvati L. 2013. ‘A chronicle of a death foretold’: Urban shrinkage and land consumption in Rome, Italy. Eur Plan Stu. 21:1176–1188.
  • Salvati L, Gemmiti R, Perini L. 2012. Land degradation and the Mediterranean urban areas: an unexplored link with planning? Area. 44:317–325.
  • Salvati L, Sabbi A. 2011. Exploring long-term land cover changes in an urban region of southern Europe. Int J Sust Dev World Ecol. 18:273–282.
  • Salvati L, Zitti M. 2007. Territorial disparities, natural resource distribution, and land degradation: a case study in southern Europe. Geojournal. 70:185–194.
  • Sanderson EW, Jaiteh M, Levy MA, Redford KH, Wannebo AV, Woolmer G. 2002. The human footprint and the last of the wild. BioScience. 52:891–904.
  • Savo V, De Zuliani E, Salvati L, Perini L, Caneva G. 2012. Long-term changes in precipitation and temperature patterns and their possible impacts on vegetation (Tolfa-Cerite area, central Italy). Appl Ecol Environ Res. 10:243–266.
  • Schneider A, Woodcock CE. 2008. Compact, dispersed, fragmented, extensive? A comparison of urban growth in twenty-five global cities using remotely sensed data, pattern metrics and census information. Urban Stu. 45:659–692.
  • Serra P, Pons X, Saurí D. 2008. Land-cover and land-use change in a Mediterranean landscape: a spatial analysis of driving forces integrating biophysical and human factors. Appl Geog. 28:189–209.
  • Spada F. 1977. Primi lineamenti della vegetazione del comprensorio tolfetano-cerite [First finding of a study on the vegetation of the Tolfa-Cerite area]. Quad Acc Naz Lincei. 227:33–50.
  • Stafford Smith DM, McKeon GM, Watson I, Henry BK, Stone GS, Hall WB, Howden SM. 2007. Land change science special feature: learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands. P Natl Acad Sci USA. 104:20690–20695.
  • Tasser E, Walde J, Tappeiner U, Teutsch A, Noggler W. 2007. Land-use changes and natural reforestation in the Eastern central alps. Agric Ecosyst Environ. 118:115–129.
  • Turner II BL, Lambin EF, Reenberg A. 2007. Land change science special feature: the emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 52:20666–20671.
  • Turok I, Mykhnenko V. 2007. The trajectories of European cities, 1960–2005. Cities. 24:165–182.
  • UNESCO. 2012. World Heritage. [cited 2016 Apr 30]. Available from: http://whc.unesco.org/en/about/
  • Wrbka T, Erb KH, Schulz NB, Peterseil J, Hahn C, Haberl H. 2004. Linking pattern and process in cultural landscapes. An empirical study based on spatially explicit indicators. Land Use Policy. 21:289–306.
  • Zasada I, Fertner C, Piorr A, Sick Nielsen T. 2011. Peri-urbanisation and multifunctional adaptation of agriculture around Copenhagen. Geogr Tidsskr-Dan. 111:59–72.
  • Zomeni M, Tzanopoulos J, Pantis JD. 2008. Historical analysis of landscape change using remote sensing techniques: an explanatory tool for agricultural transformation in Greek rural areas. Landsc Urban Plan. 86:38–46.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.