Peri-urban Conflicts and Environmental Challenges (eBook, ePUB)

A Mediterranean Perspective
Redaktion: Tomao, Antonio; Clemente, Matteo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the relationship between landscape and peri-urban agriculture and the possible implications of sustainable land management for fringe land quality, proposing a framework to evaluate the latent nexus between agro-forest systems and human settlements in Southern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000774382
• Artikelnr.: 66000444

Autorenporträt

Antonio Tomao graduated in "Forestry and Environmental Sciences" from the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) in 2011 and holds a PhD in "Landscape and environment design management and planning" from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2015. He is a fixed term researcher at the Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA) and adjunct professor of "urban and territorial planning" at the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Macerata. Since 2011, he has been a collaborator in research activities and subsequently a research fellow (in role until 2021) at the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems (DIBAF) of the University of Tuscia. He has carried out research periods abroad as a "visiting researcher" at the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) in Spain in 2015 and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), in Sweden, in 2019. He has a background and expertise in geomatics applications to environmental monitoring, urban forest risk assessment, urban planning, regional planning and green infrastructure planning. Matteo Clemente

Inhaltsangabe

1. Conflicting Landscapes: Urban Fringes and Socioeconomic Transformations
in Southern Europe 2. Densifying, Decompacting, Rethinking Cities: A
Mediterranean Debate 3. Wildfires and the Local Context: An Empirical
Analysis of a Peri-Urban District 4. From Deforestation to Forestation: The
Long-term Experience of a Mediterranean Area 5. Welcome to 'Forestscapes':
In Between Urban Reality and Rural Idyll