Spazio rurale e Land use quality: una proposta per un sistema di indicatori a scala comunale in Italia

Luca Salvati (), Marco Zitti () and Luigi Perini ()
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Luca Salvati: Italian National Institute of Statistics
Marco Zitti: Cra-Cma
Luigi Perini: Cra-Cma

Rivista di statistica ufficiale, 2009, vol. 11, issue 2-3, 101-131

Abstract: Land degradation is a global problem which involves different climatic, soil, vegetation, agricultural and population conditions. Originally attributed to the most arid regions of the world, desertification risk has been rapidly increased also in temperate regions. In Mediterranean Europe, high human pressure, climatic changes, and the intense agricultural development combine to produce land consumption, a key factors to start desertification processes. Unfortunately, the effect of agriculture on land degradation was poorly considered as far as the agro-environmental indicators are concerned. The aim of this paper is to design a system of environmental indicators contributing to improve a simplified model of land use quality assessment especially focusing on landscape, farm management, and the impact of the agricultural practices on soil quality. Thirty-two indicators were included in a Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) scheme in order to define the contribution of the agriculture to land use quality in Latium, central Italy. Finally, we discussed on the use of agro-environmental indicators as a tool to quantify the agricultural impact on the environment as an original contribution to the study of land degradation.

Keywords: agri-environmental indicators; Model ESA; land use quality; Europe Mediterranean. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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