Land Resource Depletion, Regional Disparities, and the Claim for a Renewed ‘Sustainability Thinking’ under Early Desertification Conditions

Rosanna Salvia, Valentina Quaranta, Adele Sateriano and Giovanni Quaranta
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Rosanna Salvia: Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Economics, University of Basilicata, Via Nazario Sauro 85, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
Valentina Quaranta: Mediterranean Sustainable Development Foundation, C.da San Licandro, 1, Sicignano degli Alburni Salerno Campania, I-84029 Salerno, Italy
Adele Sateriano: Independent Researcher, I-00184 Rome, Italy
Giovanni Quaranta: Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Economics, University of Basilicata, Via Nazario Sauro 85, I-85100 Potenza, Italy

Resources, 2022, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: The present contribution discusses recent findings in environmental issues dealing with desertification risk and regional disparities in the Mediterranean basin. By focusing on key socioeconomic factors underlying land and soil degradation (population growth, urban sprawl, coastalization, agricultural intensification, and land abandonment), this commentary highlights the intimate linkage between socioeconomic processes, rural poverty, and territorial disparities based on complex dynamics of demographic and economic factors. The increasing complexity in the spatial distribution of land vulnerable to degradation has also been pointed out with special reference to post-war Italy, a Mediterranean country considered as particularly affected in the UNCCD Annex IV, as the results of non-linear biophysical and socioeconomic dynamics. The lack in multi-target and multi-scale policies approaching land degradation and territorial disparities together is finally discussed as an original contribution to the study of Mediterranean desertification.

Keywords: desertification; territorial disparities; land degradation; Mediterranean basin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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