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The setting up of a general framework for the environmental and landscape planning of a protected area requires a basic detailed survey of this area and its vegetation, accompanied by a constant monitoring of the latter, so that a specific maintenance plan can be implemented accordingly. With reference to an area of high environmental, landscape an...

Agroecology is a scientific subject, an innovative practice and a social movement, which studies ecological processes in relation to agro-food systems, providing new concepts and tools for mainstreaming advanced management strategies of the agroecosystems. The implementation of Agroecology principles may strongly benefit from Biosystems Engineering...

Understanding the profound changes generated by the interaction between human activities and natural components, requires an investigation of rural landscape, that would strongly benefit by the implementation of GIS technology. In this framework, a multi-temporal study may offer significant hints for analyzing landscape evolution on time. This pape...

The volume of waste produced by agricultural activities is constantly rising, due to the continuous increase of crop and livestock production, aimed to cover the nutritional needs of the accreting population of the Planet. According to recent estimations, the total amount of waste produced in the whole EU by the agricultural sector during the perio...

Over the past century, the agricultural production has benefited from several factors that have exponentially increased its efficiency. One of the most significant aspects has been the growing use of novel materials, such plastics, which have made it possible to increase manufacturing in a straightforward and cost-effective manner. Different polyme...

The sustainability of agricultural systems is essential for protecting the rural environment, as well as for feeding the future generations. The creation of efficient closed-cycle farming systems, would lead agricultural production to have less impact on the rural environment. In this framework, the use of plastic nets for crop protection is increa...

Within the valorization process of rural landscape for public recreation, an increasing interest is currently registered on ancient sheep-tracks. Indeed, these paths constitute the historical infrastructure of the transhumance system, that covered all over Europe thousands of kilometers, forming the routes of shepherds, merchants, warriors and pilg...

Rural tourism is progressively growing in several areas of the World, thanks to its characteristics to noticeably combine naturalistic, cultural and eno-gastronomic opportunities. In this framework, many old agricultural buildings have been successfully converted into new accommodations, typical restaurants or educational farms. Tourism activities...

Plastic pollution, largely perceived by the public as a major risk factor that strongly impacts sea life and preservation, has an even higher negative impact on terrestrial ecosystems. Indeed, quantitative data about plastic contamination on agricultural soils are progressively emerging in alarming ways. One of the main contributors to this polluti...

The use of plastics in agriculture represents one of the main factors having a major impact on the environmental sustainability of the agricultural sector. The effectiveness, economy and versatility of using different plastic polymers has made these products widespread in highly profitable agricultural activities (orchards and horticulture). Howeve...

Multi-chronological examination of territory using GIScience and historical cartography may reveal a strategic tool for investigating changes in land use and the surrounding landscape structure. In this framework, the soil plays a key role in ecosystem evolution, since it governs all the mechanisms at the basis of vegetal growth, as well as all com...

In recent decades, the construction industry has advanced in its use of natural green resources, such as vegetable fibers (e.g., flax, hemp, jute, etc.) added in concrete mixtures, to create building materials that are both economically and environmentally sustainable. The pricing, low energy cost, and environmental sustainability of these natural...

The agricultural sector has benefitted over the last century from several factors that have led to an exponential increase in its productive efficiency. The increasing use of new materials, such as plastics, has been one of the most important factors, as they have allowed for increased production in a simpler and more economical way. Various polyme...

Over the last decades, there has been a growing attention in research and development on non-conventional building materials, such as vegetable fibers (e.g., flax; hemp; jute; etc.), to be used as eco-friendly materials in a wide range of applications in civil construction. The main reasons of this interest are related to the specific properties, p...

Over the last decade, there has been a growing attention in research and development on non-conventional building materials and technologies, such as vegetable fibers (e.g., flax; hemp; jute; etc.), to be used as eco-friendly materials in a wide range of applications in civil construction. The main reasons of this interest are related to the specif...

In order to assess the dynamics of forests and the effectiveness of their management strategies, it is necessary to develop monitoring systems based on qualitative and quantitative tools for their conservation, valorization and restoration. This approach is particularly important for areas that have undergone intense anthropogenic transformations i...

In the recent years, the production, management and disposal of both organic waste and agricultural residues has become significantly difficult in Italy, due to the lack of suitable facilities. Very often, indeed, within the different regions, there are no treatment plants for the organic fraction of municipal solid waste or agricultural residues t...

The rural built heritage constitutes a unique example, due to architectural and technical issues, which plays a central role in the formation of rural landscape. In this research, interactions between rural buildings and the surrounding land have been examined. Two case studies exemplifying some of typical dynamics of some internal mountain areas o...

In order to assess landscape dynamics, as well as the effectiveness of relevant management strategies, it is necessary to develop monitoring systems based on qualitative and quantitative tools for its conservation, valorisation and restoration. This approach is particularly important for historical rural landscapes having a recognized ecological an...

The growth of population living in city centers, brings with it the need to make people's lives healthier, intervening in urban and peri-urban areas to increase the presence of green spaces, able to control air pollution levels, maintain biodiversity and improve the city's microclimate. The evaporation produced by plants also mitigate the heat peak...

Protecting crops under a greenhouse allows their optimal management all over the year. Mostly during summer, in order to limit the indoor temperature and create suitable internal growing conditions, a common traditional solution is whitening the external side of the cladding material with slaked lime (calcium hydroxide-Ca(OH)2). The benefits of whi...

Farm buildings, designed over the centuries in order to fulfil their primary agricultural goal, now often constitute a widespread heritage of vernacular constructions, endowed with an unreplaceable architectural value. Together with the concurrent action of natural events, human interventions and changes in natural cycles, they play indeed a centra...

The optimization of land use, entailing the integration of land, water and soil management, encompasses complex decisions, which ask for some appropriate socioeconomic and ecological priorities. Soil represents a fundamental resource, which plays a key role in ecosystems, since it governs all the mechanisms at the basis of vegetal growth and of all...

An important aspect to be considered in the study of a landscape is how people perceive it. Assessing the landscape visual quality has a fundamental importance, and it is one of the parameters to be taken into account for planning issues. Moreover, it has an additional significance, because in many cases there is a relationship between visual and e...

Rural landscapes are the result of the interaction occurred over time between human activities and natural environment. Humanity has built constructions conceived to host farmers and biological productions, that have contributed to increase the level of agricultural productivity, meeting the food demand. This built heritage constitutes now a unique...

Historical maps are useful sources of geographical information for territorial research. The optimal distribution of the rural road network is a crucial tool for forestry and agricultural land management. This study provides a general framework for the assessment of the rural road network density and distribution in terms of historical development....

In order to limit the internal air temperature during summer and create optimum cultivation conditions in the greenhouses, a common solution utilized by growers is the shading against excessive solar radiation using plastic nets; this is due to their photo-selective properties. With the aim to analyse the efficacy of the shading effect of plastic n...

Circular economy aims to create a system that allows an optimal reuse of products and materials. In this context, the contribution provided by the valorization of residual biomass is fundamental for the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into new added-value products. Indeed, according to an appropriate planning hiera...

Farm buildings constitute a witness of the economic and productive organization of a specific rural territory. Designed over the centuries in order to fulfil their primary agricultural role, they now constitute a widespread heritage, which in some cases possesses an irreplaceable architectural value. Moreover, they also play a central role for the...

In the last decades, Mediterranean rural landscapes have undergone significant changes, with relevant considerable environmental and socio-economic impacts. These phenomena are often triggered by agricultural abandonment, especially in environmentally-sensitive areas, which are usually located in marginal and less profitable regions, and which coul...

Circular economy aims to create a system that allows an optimal reuse of products and materials. According to an appropriate planning hierarchy, agricultural and agro-food co-products, by-products and wastes should be primarily employed to re-balance soil fertility, and afterwards valorized as new secondary raw materials used in the same agricultur...

Over the centuries, farm buildings, which accompany the development of agriculture, have played an important role in defining spatial and environmental planning. In some European countries in particular, these rural structures have been built based on traditional agricultural needs and typical land characteristics. Considering the land abandonment...

In order to limit the internal air temperature during summer and create optimum cultivation conditions in the greenhouses, a common solution utilized by growers is the shading against excessive solar radiation using plastic nets; this is due to their photo-selective properties. With the aim to analyse the efficacy of the shading effect of plastic n...

Circular economy aims to create a system that allows an optimal reuse of products and materials. In this context, the contribution provided by the valorisation of residual biomass is fundamental for the production of renewable biological resources and their conversion into new added-value products. Indeed, according to an appropriate planning hiera...

Farm buildings constitute a witness of the economic and productive organization of a specific rural territory. Designed over the centuries in order to fulfil their primary agricultural role, they now constitute a widespread heritage, which in some cases possesses an irreplaceable architectural value. Moreover, they also play a central role for the...

In the last decades, Mediterranean rural landscapes have undergone significant changes, with relevant considerable environmental and socio-economic impacts. These phenomena are often triggered by agricultural abandonment, especially in environmentally-sensitive areas, which are usually located in marginal and less profitable regions, and which coul...

A rural landscape is the result of the interaction among natural elements and human activities which takes place in time and space. It represents a non-renewable resource that can provide incomparable information on the general state of the environment. The rapid transformations that are taking place in the last century push towards the implementat...

During the last decades, changes in land use and management led to the degradation of traditional rural landscapes, mostly in Mediterranean areas, with relevant consequences for local populations, landscape functionality and the maintenance of ecosystem services. The analysis of modifications occurred in rural land, as well as in mountain areas of...

The rural road network is an inseparable part of the landscape and a fundamental mean for agricultural and forest management. The aim of this study was to analyze the historical development of the rural road network in relation to its density and distribution. The evaluation of the rural road network development includes an assessment of whether an...

The study of a landscape can be considered as a multidisciplinary topic that should include all its different characteristics and their relationships in space and time. The international scientific literature currently proposes several methodologies for the assessment of landscape visual quality, jointly with the analyses of natural, agricultural a...

Cities play a considerable role in landscape protection and global biodiversity conservation. They comprise several habitat types, from remnant patches of native vegetation, urban wastelands, gardens, yards, etc., to highly engineered green infrastructures, such as green walls/roofs and bioswales. Landscape planners are increasingly aware about the...

Mediterranean areas are characterized by hot summers, which can determine unfavorable environment for the growth and quality of the crops which are cultivated inside a greenhouse. In order to control the greenhouse air temperature raise, one of the most common traditional solutions utilized by growers is the shading of the greenhouse against excess...

Rural buildings play a central role on the environmental characteristics of the rural land, because they accompanied in the centuries the development of agricultural activities; the farmer-man built them also considering the specific characteristics of the economic, social, climatic and cultural rural context. They are important elements of the rur...

Due to several growing environmental constraints, renewable energy sources currently play an increasingly crucial role that, owing to their high temporal and spatial variability, needs a careful planning approach. It is important therefore to develop a framework that examines the distribution of different energy sources in a spatio-temporal context...

The apparent features of a rural landscape are the final result of the interaction among several natural and anthropic factors. The analysis of a landscape, as well as the identification of its best management strategies, can be improved when useful information about its modifications along a wide time period is available, so as to assess the effec...

The use of advanced technological tools may considerably support the protection of landscapes with high cultural and naturalistic value, since they allow the implementation of multidisciplinary information, which may reveal crucial for a sound management of sites representing an heritage of outstanding value. In the present paper, a special analysi...

The colonization occurred at large scale during the past centuries has contributed to shape the image currently perceived from a landscape. The settlement dynamics are especially interesting, having played an important role. Several traces of extinct settlements and their access routes are usually still visible in many today's European landscapes....

The valorisation of agricultural co-products, by-products and wastes may play a significant role in the framework of the concept of bio-economy, which is referred to the transition from a linear to a circular economy, based on the exploitation of by-products and transformation of residues from waste to new resources. After contributing to the resto...

In the European Union almost 50% of the territory is covered by farmland, which means that agriculture plays a key role in land management, having also a huge responsibility in the preservation of natural resources. In order to practice a sustainable agriculture, farmers and other agricultural operators must adopt correct and environmentally-friend...

The effect of sand wind ageing simulation performed under different conditions for a fivelayer film consisting of polyethylene (PE), poly (vinyl acetate) (PVAc) and various additives has been investigated. The mechanical properties of the five-layer films after several treatments were evaluated, together with their surface morphology - analyzed by...

The current characteristics of a rural landscape may be better understood if suitable information related to its past is available. The availability of a Geographical Information System (GIS) can enable the analysis of landscape features in relation to several aspects, e.g., the evolution and mutual inter-relation among different ecosystems, the im...

Rural buildings play a central role on the environmental char- acteristics of the extra-urban land. They accompanied in the cen- turies the development of agricultural activities by humans, who was so able to breed cattle, to grow and yield crops, and to store, transform and process agricultural products in a functional and efficient way, working i...

Within the current global trend aimed to increase energy saving and exploit renewable energies, agriculture may play a significant role, mainly when the energy valorization of agricultural by-products, co-products and waste is concerned. Agricultural biomass is a diffuse source of energy, having one of the highest potential to cover renewable energ...

Excessive levels of solar radiation may negatively influence crop growth, with sunburns or other possible crop damages, while increasing the internal greenhouse temperature above levels that are tolerable for plants and workers. In order to control hot air temperature inside a greenhouse, one of the most common solutions traditionally employed by g...

Mediterranean areas are characterized by hot summers that can determine bad environmental conditions for the growth of vegetable crops cultivated inside greenhouse. In Southern Italy, the traditional technique often employed by farmers during summer to reduce sun radiation and excessive internal air temperature is the whitening of the external side...

In this work the performance and durability of a new generation of greenhouse covers, in which the cover is composed of five layers, is investigated. A sand wind ageing was performed under different exposure conditions. Surface morphology and chemical, physical and thermal characteristics were investigated by using optical microscopy, FTIR and tens...

This work aims at studying the degradable effect of artificial ageing on tri-layer polyethylene films used as greenhouse cover in the North Africa environment. The film was supplied by Agrofilm and made of low density polyethylene (LDPE), containing additives (e.g., color and ultraviolet UV stabilizers). Optical, thermal, surface analysis and mecha...

Renewable energy sources currently play an increasingly crucial role that, owing to their spatial and high temporal variability, need a careful planning approach to develop a flexible spatio-temporal analysis framework. From an energy point of view, thanks to its morphological, agricultural and environmental structure, a regional territory, such as...

The human activities and the social and economic transformations occurred during the last century led modifications in the agro-forestry areas. This paper shows a study case study in which the dynamics of land use are analysed using a geographic information system applied to historical maps in order to evaluate the consequences of these land transf...

Rural buildings play a central role on the environmental characteristics of the extra-urban land. They accompanied in the centuries the development of agricultural activities of the man who was so able to breed cattle, to grow and yield crops, and to store, transform and process agricultural products in a functional and efficient way, working into...

The human activities led modifications, connected to land use changes, in the agro-forestry areas and in the rural land. The changes in social and economic conditions, occurred during the last century, have imposed significant modifications to the rural land, with different impacts on the environment. To understand these modifications is now more e...

Rural land has been affected over the years by profound, complex and difficult to understand transformations due to natural events, human intervention and changes in natural cycles. Nowadays, the analysis of rural land as well as the environment and landscape is made easier and more complete through the use of powerful and reliable tools; many chan...

New technologies could be adequately introduced for an improved analysis aimed to the sustainable management and planning of the rural land, as well as its environment and landscape. Nowadays, this analysis is easier and more complete through the use of powerful and reliable tools. Several changes can be considered to be as models of territorial de...

During the Middle Ages, the main linking route between northern and southern Europe was created. It was crossed by merchants, armies and pilgrims: the Francigena Way. A minor branch of this route, continued in the direction of Jerusalem through the Southern Italy, passing through the actual " Parco Nazionale Appennino Lucano Val d'Agri Lagonegrese...

The analysis of the rural land modification, as well as its environment and landscape, is important to understand the profound transformations connected with the human intervention and natural events. A multi-temporal analysis, with the support of GIS techniques, has a great potential for monitoring landscape diversity. The objective of this paper...

The use of Geographical Information Systems facilitates spatial analysis and allows the understanding of the evolutionary processes that occurred over the years and have led to the current conditions. Thanks to a comparison between an historical cartographic map with recent ortophotos, it was possible to evaluate the meaningful elements present in...

volume XLIV(s1):e125] [page 627] Abstract In this paper the attention has been focused on the energy from bio-mass by-product, including forest biomass and agricultural production, waste and other sources of renewable energy, available in the Basilicata Region. In order to determine the quantity of extractable biomass from the forests of the region...

In this paper the attention has been focused on the energy from biomass by-product, including forest biomass and agricultural production, waste and other sources of renewable energy, available in the Basilicata Region. In order to determine the quantity of extractable biomass from the forests of the region data from plans for forest management were...

In this paper the attention has been focused on the energy from biomass by-product, including forest biomass and agricultural production, waste and other sources of renewable energy, available in the Basilicata Region. In order to determine the quantity of extractable biomass from the forests of the region data from plans for forest management were...

The study of fl ooded areas is derived from detailed knowledge of the area under consideration (river and fl oodplain), hydrological analysis and hydraulic modeling. The estimated risk of fl ooding is now facilitated by survey systems able to create enable the creation of highly detailed digital terrain models (COBBY et alii, 2001), by complex math...

The Environmental Engineering Faculty of University of Basilicata have higher-level course for students in the field of natural hazard. The curriculum provides expertise in the field of prediction, prevention and management of earthquake risk, hydrologic-hydraulic risk, and geomorphological risk. These skills will contribute to the training of spec...