Environmental Sustainability and Global Change
Forests, Agriculture, and Soils vis à vis Human Disturbance
- 1st Edition - November 22, 2024
- Latest edition
- Editor: Luca Salvati
- Language: English
Environmental Sustainability and Global Change: Forests, Agriculture, and Soils vis à vis Human Disturbance offers an integrated approach to the socio-environmental dynamics of the… Read more
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Description
Description
Stimulating a spatial planning for rural areas, the book proposes a dynamic image of Mediterranean rural landscapes, providing novel interpretations, conceptual definitions, and operational tools designed to reduce ecological fragility and economic vulnerability.
Key features
Key features
- Offers a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to ecological and economic issues, including studies spanning agronomy, demography, ecology, and economics
- Contains unique case studies from comparative cases and quali-quantitative studies with extensive geographical coverage
- Includes updated ecological issues of complex rural systems in the Mediterranean region and provides specialized strategies for sustainable development in these less studied areas
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. A renewed ‘Sustainability Thinking’ is possible: Land Resources, Economic Development and Global Change in Southern Europe
3. Sustainability Strategies for Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide: Implications across Economic, Social, and Environmental Front
4. Economic and Environmental convergence and the quest for sustainable development
5. Sustainability, Resilience, Land Degradation and Regional Disparities: (Re)framing four hegemonic concepts from a ‘rural’ perspective
6. A brief Outlook at the long-term Evolution of Agriculture and the Environmental Consequences in Italy
7. Rural development and Environmental Sustainability in advanced economies: The socio-ecological role of traditional crops
8. Toward an unsustainable pasture? The Influence of topographical position on soil compaction at the farm scale
9. Sustainable development and integrated soil management in Mediterranean vineyards
10. Land Degradation and Sustainable Development: a Multi-step Statistical Framework to Complexity Analysis of Soil Quality
11. Toward a Mediterranean model of rural settlement? Land degradation and the evolving demographic pressure in Italy, 1972-2021
12. Spending for the environment: a quantitative analysis of local treasure expenditure in Italy
13. The economic costs of forest fires: a simplified accounting system for Mediterranean Europe
14. Rural depopulation and land abandonment: the quest for a comprehensive framework and the experience of Itay
15. Socio-economically and environmentally disadvantaged (rural) Regions in European Union: The case of Western Macedonia
16. Mediterranean Environments and Local Communities: Monitoring Demands and Implications for Mitigation Policies
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 22, 2024
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Luca Salvati
Luca Salvati is an adjunct professor and staff researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2001 he has been staff researcher at the National Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA). He is an expert in official statistics, spatial statistics, Geographic Information Systems and Remote sensing applied to socioeconomic and environmental issues. He has conducted studies on topics of economic statistics, urban economics, regional demography, and sustainable development, using exploratory multivariate statistics and geographic information systems for decision support. He has held courses in Economic Statistics (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Basic Mathematics (University of Rome La Sapienza), Multivariate Statistics (University of Roma Tre), Regional Economics (University of Camerino, University of Eastern Piedmont), Strategic Evaluation of environmental impact (University of Roma Tre). He has supervised master's and doctoral theses and has published more than 30 printed books and over 600 scientific publications in English.