Daniele Codato

University of Padua | UNIPD · Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering ICEA

There are many examples of projects and activists whose efforts to achieve environmental and spatial justice have been strengthened by digital participatory mapping methodologies and tools (Albagli and Iwama, 2022; Brown and Kyttä, 2018; Cochrane and Corbett, 2019; Haklay et al., 2018; Rawat and Wie Yusuf, 2020; Sletto et al., 2020). Increased acce...

Urban agriculture is recognized as a worthy resource to support a growing population as well as to provide other positive effects on urban ecosystems and their citizens. In this context, community gardens are considered key topics in terms of food production and food security, in both developing and developed countries, as well as in terms of socia...

The interconnection of urban contexts represents the baseline for the quality of life within them. An efficient urban mobility system ensures environmental, economic and social sustainability. It promotes inclusivity by fostering access to urban facilities and services. Moreover, it enables improvement to the organisation of urban space by allowing...

Agrobiodiversity plays a critical role in fostering the stability, resilience, and sustainability of European farming systems. Nonetheless, there is currently a lack of comprehensive methods to describe its spatial distribution within farms, its connectivity with the surrounding landscape, and, most crucially, how the perceptions and actions of hum...

Nitrogen (N) deposition significantly affects forest dynamics, carbon stocks and biodiversity, and numerous assessments of N fluxes and impacts exist in temperate latitudes. In tropical latitudes, however, there are few such assessments. In this study, we measured the inorganic N concentration (wet deposition) deposited in rainfall and rainfall pH...

Despite the ongoing impacts of climate change around the world, fossil fuels continue to drive the global economy. The socio-environmental impacts of oil development at the local level are widely recognized, especially in high biocultural diversity areas, highlighting the need to develop and implement effective policies that protect both biodiversi...

The last two decades have seen the development and diffusion of new technologies that can help in managing geographic information. This has led to a proliferation of grassroots processes for exploring, creating and sharing geographical data as a way for citizens to take part in decision making in different kinds of processes.However, these ongoing...

In the Ecuadorian Amazon - one of Earth's last high-biodiversity wilderness areas and home to uncontacted indigenous populations – 50 years of widespread oil development is jeopardizing biodiversity and feeding environmental conflicts. In 2019, a campaign to eliminate oil-related gas flaring, led by Amazonian communities impacted by fossil fuel pro...

Veneto, one of the most densely populated, industrialized and tourist regions in Italy, also has the sad distinction of being one of the ftrst to have seen Covid-19 arrival in its territory. The maps and reflections produced far the Veneto region have brought out some aspects related to the analysis of the pandemie and the consequences of the lockd...

The rising environmental issues on contemporary cities urgently calls for sustainable planning policies. Implementation of nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and green infrastructures associated to green spaces management is at present of paramount importance. In contrast to policies mainly focused on public greenery, the inclusion of priv...

En esta investigación se estudia la Información Geográfica Voluntaria (IGV) como herramienta para generar información geográfica independientemente de la profesión de los usuarios. Se identificaron áreas en las provincias de Orellana y Sucumbíos, en las que se realizan o se han realizado actividades petroleras, y se recorrió el denominado Toxic Tou...

The main objective of this research was to critically examine the concept of Social Licence to Operate (SLO) in an oil concession of the Ecuadorian Amazon inhabited by indigenous villages. In this paper we present the qualitative data of the semi-structured interviews and the household survey with village residents. The main findings revealed the i...

The purpose of this research was to critically analyze the social license to operate (SLO) for an oil company operating in Block 10, an oil concession located in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The specific study area is an important biodiversity hotspot, inhabited by indigenous villages. A mixed-methods approach was used to support a deeper understanding o...

Soil sealing is a worldwide phenomenon of covering of natural or seminatural soil with impervious surfaces, such as built-up or paved surfaces. It is widely recognized as a major environmental issue which drives landscape fragmentation and ecosystem services degradation and loss. Italy is one of European countries with the highest extent of soil se...

Focusing on a sustainable and strategic urban development, local governments and public administrations, such as the Veneto Region in Italy, are increasingly addressing their urban and territorial planning to meet national and European policies, along with the principles and goals of the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development. In this regard,...

Con il rapido sviluppo delle tecnologie digitali per la raccolta, gestione e diffusione di dati spaziali, la ricerca geografica ha beneficiato in anni recenti di numerosi contributi basati sulla partecipazione o collaborazione di cittadini, singolarmente o in gruppo, facilitata da tecnologie dell'informazione geografica, geotool, geoapp. Processi d...

Over the last few years, soil sealing has been recognized as one of the major threats in terms of soil degradation and loss of ecosystem services. Although many efforts have been promoted to increase the awareness of safeguarding soil for stakeholders, its value as a non-renewable resource as well as soil-related services in urban ecosystems is not...

In the Amazon Rainforest, a unique post-carbon plan to mitigate global warming and to protect the exceptional bio-cultural diversity was experimented in 2007-2013 by the Ecuadorian government. To preserve the rainforest ecosystems within the Yasuní-ITT oil block, the release of 410 million metric tons of CO2 would have been avoided. The neologism "...

Dal primo Summit sul cambiamento climatico nel 1992, il dibattito sociale, politico e scientifico sulla relazione tra global warming ed utilizzo di combustibili fossili ha avuto un crescendo esponenziale, evidenziando come le politiche di sviluppo vadano coniugate sempre più con sostenibilità ambientale ed energetica. Nel periodo compreso tra il 20...

La Geographic Information Science è stata considerata la “causa comune per la ricerca interdisciplinare” (Onsrud, Kuhn, 2015). Nell'era dei sistemi aerei a pilotaggio remoto, l’Università di Padova ha avviato con l’anno accademico 2015/2016 un nuovo master di secondo livello in “GIScience e Sistemi a Pilotaggio Remoto (SAPR) per la gestione integra...

Climate change currently represents the tip of the iceberg of the human footprint on the Biosphere, showing social and environmental impacts both on local and global scales. McGlade and Ekins (2015) argued that to keep the temperature from increasing by 2 °C, more than 80% of coal, 50% of gas and 30% of oil reserves must remain "unburnable" undergr...

Gli obiettivi di sostenibilità al 2030 del settore del oil & gas indicano come prioritario l'impegno delle compagnie petrolifere nella promozione dello sviluppo sostenibile delle comunità presenti nei territori in cui esse operano. In questo modo l'impresa può raggiungere più facilmente la cosiddetta Social Licence to Operate (SLO), ovvero il livel...

Riassunto Abstract Il bacino del Mediterraneo, uno dei più importanti hotspot di biodi-versità a livello mondiale, è interessato da attività di ricerca ed estra-zione di petrolio e di gas, con il potenziale rischio di effetti negativi sui suoi delicati ecosistemi. Nonostante le importanti implicazioni, in letteratura le relazioni spaziali fra opera...

b) Master di secondo livello in GIScience e SPR per la gestione integrata del territorio e delle risorse naturali, Abstract Gli obiettivi di sostenibilità al 2030 del settore del oil & gas indicano come prioritario l'impegno delle compagnie petrolifere nella promozione dello sviluppo sostenibile delle comunità presenti nei territori in cui esse ope...

Nel 1999 l'Ecuador, primo paese al mondo, istituiva una zona Intangibile riservata al diritto all'autodeterminazione dei popoli incontattati Tagaeri-Taromenane. Nel 2007 la Zona Intangibile Tagaeri-Taromenane (ZITT) veniva finalmente delimitata occupando un'area di 7500 km 2 della regione amazzonica ai confini con il Peru, perpetuamente vietata ad...

L'estrazione di combustibili fossili è un'attività che ha ormai raggiunto aree remote ad alta diversità biologica e culturale, tra le quali desta gran preoccupazione l'espansione della frontiera petrolifera in Amazzonia occidentale, specialmente nella Riserva della Biosfera Yasunì (YBR), uno dei luoghi più biodiversi del pianeta e casa ancestrale d...

La Zona Intangible del Yasuní se delimitó de acuerdo a los límites de los bloques petroleros, mas no de las necesidades territoriales de sus habitantes. Esta ampliación, puesta en consulta popular para complacer una demanda de grupos ecologistas y ambientalistas principalmente, se complica pues el territorio cada vez es más complicado y los interes...

The purpose of this research, still ongoing, is to put forward and test a model to measure the concept of Social Licence to Operate (SLO), analysing benefits, limits and possibilities of adopting this tool in the oil context of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The study area is Block 10, an important biodiverse hotspot inhabited by four indigenous groups and...

1 ABSTRACT With the advent of climate-related issues and low-carbon economy, networks of cycle paths and tracks are becoming a more and more relevant mobility infrastructure for cities. However, mapping their critical points in order to fix them to improve liveability and accessibility can be difficult. One solution may be to combine digital techno...

L’aumento di consumo di suolo rappresenta, oggigiorno, una problematica sempre più urgente che coinvolge principalmente le aree urbane e peri-urbane: cemento, asfalto, nuove costruzioni e infrastrutture limitano, o sovente annullano, il corretto svolgimento delle funzioni ecologiche ed idrauliche del suolo. Tale fenomeno incide sui servizi ecosiste...

"Droni in viticoltura e frutticoltura: geoinformazione per agroecosistemi 4.0 in Veneto e Trentino" è il progetto finanziato dal bando FSE 2017 della Regione Veneto (DGR 2216/2016) denominato "La ricerca a sostegno della trasformazione aziendale; innovatori in azienda”. Obiettivo del progetto è mettere a disposizione delle aziende agricole venete,...

Precision viticulture (PV) requires the use of technologies that can detect the spatial and temporal variability of vineyards and, at the same time, allow useful information to be obtained at sustainable costs. In order to develop a cheap and easy-to-handle operational monitoring scheme for PV, the aim of this work was to evaluate the possibility o...

L'utilizzo di satelliti commerciali o sensori prossimali ad alta risoluzione, incontra ancora grosse difficoltà di utilizzo al di fuori degli ambiti della ricerca. In ambito commerciale le analisi effettuate con tali strumenti, a causa dei costi e della poca conoscenza degli stessi, si riducono spesso ad utilizzi sporadici, diminuendone drasticamen...

Il progetto qui presentato è stato sviluppato a partire da giugno 2017 dall’Università degli Studi di Padova, attraverso il sostegno della Regione Veneto nell’ambito di un bando POR-FSE, con l‘obiettivo di mettere a disposizione delle aziende agricole venete competenze e conoscenze avanzate nell’impiego di Sistemi a Pilotaggio Remoto (SPR), di dati...

La Geographic Information Science è stata considerata la "causa comune per la ricerca interdisciplinare" (Onsrud, Kuhn, 2015). Nell'era dei sistemi aerei a pilotaggio remoto, l'Università di Padova ha avviato con l'anno accademico 2015/2016 un nuovo master di secondo livello in "GIScience e Sistemi a Pilotaggio Remoto (SAPR) per la gestione integra...

Scopo del lavoro è sperimentare l’uso di rilievi eseguiti con tecnologia MMS per valutare la potenziale attrattiva paesaggistica di una strada. Lo studio è stato condotto in via sperimentale su un unico tratto di strada in provincia di Treviso. Il rilievo della strada è stato visionato, identificando e mappando i tratti di strada per i quali la vis...

The increase of soil sealing is presently affecting urban areas by concrete surfaces, asphalt, new buildings, and infrastructures. This phenomenon is eroding important urban ecosystem services provided by the soil system: carbon sequestration, micro-climate regulation, mitigation of hydrogeological risk, water and air purification, cultural and aes...

Para liberar los territorios de su destino y descubrir nuevos caminos posibles, tenemos que desarrollar dos exploraciones geográficas paralelas: una. en relación con mapas que distorsionan el terreno; y otra, para entender lo que está sucediendo. Esto es especialmente importante en lugares que no son inmediatamente accesibles, para hacer visible lo...

Direct and indirect ecological impacts of roads and their expansion are well documented: habitat degradation, ecosystem fragmentation, changes in natural drainage systems and water quality. Important landscape scale impacts concern roads about direct and indirect effects on deforestation and land use land cover change, that lead to habitat loss and...

Assessing ecosystem services (ES) and mapping their values are of paramount importance. Here we present two case studies where the participatory mapping of social values of landscape ecosystem services is used in territories with high levels of cultural and biological diversity (Adamello Brenta Natural Park in Italy and the Alto Mayo basin in the W...

Among the human activities characterized by higher negative effects on biodiversity conservation, there is the hydrocarbons extraction, with all the connected phases. The production of hydrocarbons, in fact, can lead to a wide range of effects on ecosystems including contamination of soil, water and air pollution, deforestation and habitat fragment...

The increasing availability of geographic information and the rapid development of new technologies for the management of geographic data (from drones, to WebGIS, to Mobile-GIS) require the updating, the reorganization and the development of decision-making processes in many sectors of the economy, public administration and the non-profit. At the...

La crescente disponibilità di informazioni geografiche e il rapido sviluppo di nuove tecnologie per la gestione dei dati geografici (dai droni, al WebGIS, al Mobile-GIS) richiedono l'aggiornamento, la riorganizzazione e lo sviluppo dei processi decisionali in molti settori dell'economia, dell’amministrazione pubblica e del non-profit. Allo stesso t...

El Estado Ecuatoriano en 1999 se ha comprometido en delimitar una Zona Intangible para los pueblos en aislamiento Tagaeri Taromenane, que debería vedar “a perpetuidad a todo tipo de actividad extractiva”. Pero hay una movilidad de los pueblos en aislamiento y se asiste a una movilidad de la frontera petrolera. Este trabajo utilizando el papel de la...

El Estado Ecuatoriano se comprometió en delimitar una Zona Intangible para los pueblos en aislamiento de 7580,48 km2. Se trata de un polígono de al redor de 140 km para 70 km. Dentro de la Zona Intangible en base al Decreto 552/1999 es “vedada a perpetuidad a todo tipo de actividad extractiva”. El Art. 2 del decreto 2187/2007 establece una “Zona d...

Ecosystem services (ES) are defined as the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. The inclusion of the ES is being acknowledged as very important, as well as the local actors knowledge and getting an estimation of the perceived social, economic or biophysics values in order to evaluate the complete range of ecosystem values. Social values are may...