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Introduction
Giuseppe Pulighe currently works at the Research Center for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA). He is working in the field of Agronomy, Bioenergy, Land Use Change, Water Management, Remote Sensing and GIS. He has authored over 60 journal publications and conference contributions. Regularly serves as reviewer for international journals. University Lecturer in GIS - University of Sassari.
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June 2010 - January 2012
March 2008 - March 2009
March 2012 - November 2014
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Invasive species pose a growing threat to global biodiversity, agricultural productivity, and ecosystem health, as climate change worsens their spread. This study focused on modelling the current and projected distribution of the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica Newman), an invasive pest with potentially devastating impacts on crops and natural v...
Chapter 3 WEFE nexus adaptation and mitigation strategies. In: Interlinking climate change with the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus in the Mediterranean Basin. Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC) Reports. MedECC Secretariat, Marseille, France.
Climate change poses significant challenges to agricultural systems in the Mediterranean region, with Italy being significantly affected. This literature scoping review aims to examine existing research on the impact of climate change on yield and income on the three agri-food value chains in Italy: viticulture, fruit and vegetables, and dairy catt...
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This paper provides a systematic literature review regarding climate change impact on agriculture.
Applying the systematic literature review, a sample of 44 studies published over the last 20 years was
reviewed through descriptive and content analysis. This study shows, both based on projections
meteorological for the coming decades and based on me...
Italy has long been a key player in olive crop production, but the sector is currently facing an unprecedented crisis. This is evident by shrinking cultivated areas, farms, production levels, and investments. Multiple factors contributed to this decline, including traditional cultivation practices, limited innovation and competitiveness, siloed-ori...
This paper provides a systematic literature review regarding climate change impact on agriculture. Applying the systematic literature review, a sample of 43 studies published over the last 20 years was reviewed through descriptive and content analysis. This study shows, both based on projections meteorological for the coming decades and based on me...
Bioenergy can significantly contribute to facilitating the transition to a self-sufficient low-carbon energy sector in Europe. The establishment of sustainable bioenergy systems needs ex-ante analysis that considers specific contexts and potential trade-offs, including competing uses of natural resources such as land, water and energy. The use of m...
Global palm oil demand for energy, food, and chemical uses has led to a rapid expansion of tree plantations in Southeast Asia, Central Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. This oil tree is the world’s most productive, highly profitable and traded vegetable oil crop, and the demand is expected to increase further in the near future. Nevertheless...
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Global food demand will increase by nearly 50% during the
next 30 years. Sustainably meeting future food demand,
which is at the core of SDG 2, requires human civilization to
increase crop yields on existing cropland and ensure that
the most productive croplands around the world remain
under production. However, as co...
Highly managed Mediterranean river basins are facing considerable environmental management challenges. Water resource managers are increasingly concerned about the allocation of limited water resources, environmental quality concerns and planning under present and future climatic change and uncertainty. We implemented a watershed-scale eco-hydrolog...
Large land areas in European countries can be considered marginal, underutilized, and contaminated (MUC). Many recent studies have shown that bioenergy crop cultivation can make this land profitable, creating new income opportunities for local citizens without interfering with food production. However, farmers, landowners, and local communities mus...
It is increasingly recognized that land use and land cover changes driven by anthropogenic pressures are increasingly impacting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their services, human society, and human livelihoods and well-being. Mapping and monitoring land use and land cover change dynamics are essential for preserving the environment and na...
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) enables the simulation of watershed and river basin quantity and quality of surface and ground water under the influence of land use, management, and climate change.
It can be used to monitor and control soil erosion, non-point source pollution and basin management.
The recent version (SWAT+) was implemente...
Current and future scenarios for global agricultural systems under a changing climate require innovative approaches, novel datasets, and methods for improving environmental resource management and better data-driven decision-making [...]
Bioenergy systems can play a central role in the transition towards sustainable, inclusive, resilient, low emissions and circular economies, while creating income opportunities, enhancing livelihood and access to energy for current and future generations, leaving no-one behind. However, the foundations of sustainable bioenergy systems need to be ba...
Bioenergy from renewable resources plays a central role in the transition toward net-zero emission of carbon dioxide and low-energy circular economy. The main objective of this work was to examine the main challenges and opportunities for producing renewable biomass feedstocks and developing realistic bioenergy value chain
s in the European Union....
The European Commission fosters the opening and reusing the Integrated Administration and Control Systems (IACS) administrative data from the European paying agencies as useful tools for monitoring the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) performances. In this scenario, the Open IACS project goes in the same direction by demonstrating reuse of the IACS...
Eco-hydrological models, such as SWAT (Soil Water Assessment Tool), are used to simulate complex hydrological processes and LU management in relation to water quality and quantity on a wide range of ecosystems. SWAT, developed by United States Department of Agriculture, is one of the most widely used watershed-scale modelling to assess changes in l...
The consequences of climate change on food security in arid and semi-arid regions can be serious. Understanding climate change impacts on water balance is critical to assess future crop performance and develop sustainable adaptation strategies. This paper presents a climate change impact study on the water balance components of an agricultural wate...
Biogas production and use can represent a win-win strategy providing multiple opportunities to mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, while offering a range of important social, environmental and economic benefits. Nevertheless, as for other bioenergy pathways, biogas sustainability needs to be carefully assessed...
Extensive surfaces of land are currently under-utilized, marginal and/or contaminated (MUC) in many EU and neighbouring countries. In the past few years, scientific research has demonstrated that bioenergy crops can potentially render this land profitable, generating income for the local populations and, at the same time, reaching the goals of the...
Bioenergy represents the highest share of renewable energies consumed in the European Union and is still expected to grow. This could be possible by exploring bioenergy production on Marginal, Underutilised, and Contaminated lands (MUC) that are not used for agricultural purposes and therefore, present no competition with food/feed production. In t...
Several EU and neighboring countries have relevant surfaces of land that are currently largely marginal, under-utilized and/or contaminated (MUC). In the last decade, many scientific studies have demonstrated how bioenergy crops have the potential to be grown profitably on this land and can therefore offer a source of income to local populations wh...
The COVID-19 emergency has revealed the extreme fragility of large cities to unexpected complex global risks and crises. City lockdown has led to increasing awareness of the vital importance of food availability for citizens. The combined effect of border closure and movement restrictions increased food losses and export costs, especially for veget...
Over the past decade, a growing body of literature recognizes the importance of urban agriculture (UA) as relevant phenomenon able to interconnect a range of environmental, economic, and social issues in urban areas. In parallel with food production, UA contributes to climate change mitigation, biodiversity promotion, rainwater regulation, and cult...
Predicting the availability and quality of freshwater resources is a pressing concern in the Mediterranean area, where a number of agricultural systems depend solely on precipitation. This study aims at predicting streamflow and nonpoint pollutant loads in a temporary river system in the Mediterranean basin (Sulcis area, Sardinia, Italy). Monthly d...
The recent Communication of the European Commission “A Clean Planet for all. A European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy” guides the environmental policies of the Member States towards the achievement of the objectives defined under the Paris Agreement (COP21 – Dec. 2015), by proposing new...
The BIOPLAT-EU project will promote and support the uptake of sustainable bioenergy projects on marginal, underutilized and contaminated lands (MUC lands). These lands cannot be used for food production or for recreational and conservation purposes, but in some cases, they still retain the potential to produce biomass for non-food purposes. Moreove...
Urban agriculture in Global North cities is strongly promoted as a sustainable solution to achieve different goals, such as food production, quality of life, and well-being. Although several attempts have been made to evaluate urban agriculture production, few studies have investigated food production in a multitemporal geospatial way and considere...
The cultivation of marginal lands for bioenergy production has recently become a topic of research interest for the agronomic and agricultural economy scientific communities. The growing availability of arable land in the Mediterranean regions, as a consequence of the decline of cereal cropping systems and grain legume, provides ample opportunities...
The paper proposes a methodology to assess water consump-
tion in urban agriculture. Green and blue water footprints were
calculated for five selected community gardens (CGs) in Rome
(Italy) based on weather, crops, and yields. Then, the water
requirement for all the CGs of the city, identified by means of a
geodatabase, was estimated. For a cultiv...
The Copernicus Programme is the European effort to monitor the Earth and ecosystems by providing Earth
Observation information and services to handle a broad range of challenges (e.g. climate change, transports,
sustainable development, regional and local planning, security, health, agriculture, etc.). Copernicus
information are collected through a...
The occurrence of water shortages ascribed to projected climate change, especially in the Mediterranean region, fosters the interest in remote sensing (RS) applications to optimize water use in agriculture. Remote sensing evapotranspiration and water demand estimation over large cultivated areas were used to manage irrigation to minimize losses dur...
In the upcoming years bioenergy production in the European Union (EU) is expected to grow significantly in order to meet the targets of the new Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). To this end, marginal, contaminated and underutilized lands in Mediterranean regions have the potential to contribute to meeting EU goals through the production of susta...
Anthropogenic soil diffuse pollution with heavy metals is of increasing question because of its potential effects on environment and ecosystem, as well as human health and safety. The cultivation of dedicated energy crops across unavailable soils for food production could be a possible pathway for restoring contaminated and polluted soils, fosterin...
Water managers need map of irrigated areas (defined as the identification of their location and their areal extent) to plan a rational use of water under limited availability and to prevent the unauthorized withdrawals. Many authors have shown that the Earth Observation techniques are an effective tool for mapping irrigated areas worldwide at diffe...
Urban agriculture is being recognized as spreading activity in many metropolitan areas with positive impacts on the socio-economic sphere, favouring forms of sustainable urban environments. A stepping stone for analysing potential benefits, sustainability aspects and to define planning strategies is the availability of high resolution land use data...
In a context of growing competition between land uses, bioenergy development is often seen as one of the possible contributors to such competition. However, there are areas which are not used or cannot be used for the production of food and feed. This is the case of contaminated land, land unsuitable for the production of food or feed, set-aside la...
Homegrown fruits and vegetables are gaining popularity in many metropolitan areas with several facets connected to the wider urban agriculture phenomenon. At the same time, the relationship between urban food production and irrigation water is pivotal in terms of resource management. In this paper, we investigated water savings through the collecti...
Deforestation and forest degradation have several negative effects on the environment including a loss of species habitats, disturbance of the water cycle and reduced ability to retain CO2, with consequences for global warming. We investigated the evolution of forest resources from development regions in Romania affected by both deforestation and r...
Urbanization and rapid population growth pose the cities in front of massive challenges in terms of
environmental impacts. This paper explores recent progresses in mapping ecosystem services provided
by urban green infrastructures (GI) and discuss how GI can contribute to promoting cohesion, resilience
and livability toward sustainable and green ci...
In the context of environmental sustainability there has been an increasing interest in bioenergy production from renewable resources, and is expected that European biofuel production from energy crops will increase as a consequence of the achievement of policy targets. The aim of this paper is to assess the agronomic feasibility of biomass crop cu...
Water managers need map of irrigated areas (defined as the identification of their location and their areal extent) to plan a rational use of water under limited availability and to prevent the unauthorized withdrawals. Many authors have shown that the Earth Observation techniques are an effective tool for mapping irrigated areas worldwide at diffe...
The limited amount of studies addressing the long-term effectiveness of restoration actions to combat land degradation is a constraint for current landscape restoration planning and implementation. Remote sensing data provide a unique opportunity for gathering information
on the spatial and temporal variability of restoration processes, and may co...
Le potenzialità dell’agricoltura urbana (AU) sono state evidenziate da numerosi studi, che hanno messo in evidenza come essa rappresenti un valido strumento per contribuire a tessere legami sociali anche in situazioni di forte degrado o crisi; a preservare e migliorare la qualità della vita delle popolazioni urbane; ad assicurare alimenti sani e nu...
The strategies to cope with future climate ch ange scenarios need to take into account the water use at local level, especially in urban areas where water demand and water conflicts among different users may be relevant. In recent years, urban agriculture is emerging as new competitor among the users of water available in many metropolitan areas, d...
Nel 2014, nell’ambito del progetto “Promozione della cultura contadina” coordinato dal CREA (ex-Istituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria), è stata sviluppata una metodologia per la mappatura spaziale dell’agricoltura urbana utilizzando dati telerilevati e strumenti di web-mapping1 liberamente disponibili.
L’obiettivo principale è stato quello di inqu...
The sustainable management of water resources plays a key role in Mediterranean viticulture, characterized by scarcity and competition of available water. This study focuses on estimating the evapotranspiration and crop coefficients of table grapes vineyards trained on overhead " tendone " systems in the Apulia region (Italy). Maximum vineyard tran...
Nitrogen (N) is one of the major limiting factors of crop production, and the crop uptake is highly variable within a single year, between years, sites, and crops. The uptake variability is influenced by numerous agronomic, environmental and genetic factors. Therefore, coefficients of nutrient content in crop production may vary between regions, re...
While Europe is by large considered as having adequate water resources, water scarcity and drought is an increasingly frequent and widespread phenomenon in the European Union. The long term imbalance resulting from water demand exceeding available water resources is no longer uncommon (EU, 2012). Objective of this paper is to show how the tools, ba...
During the last years, in the city of Rome (Italy) due to social and economical trends urban agriculture is a growing phenomenon. Residential kitchen gardens in Rome are a custom started in the past, but recently they experienced a strong increase with a concentration in the city fringe. The amount and extension of these cultivated parcels has been...
Google Earth (GE) has recently become the focus of increasing interest and popularity among available online virtual globes used in scientific research projects, due to the free and easily accessed satellite imagery provided with global coverage. Nevertheless, the uses of this service raises several research questions on the quality and uncertainty...
The aim of this study is to deepening knowledge on the agricultural nitrogen cycle within the Veneto region (Northern Italy) by computing the Gross Nitrogen Balance (GNB) with highly geographical resolution. Spatialised maps of nitrogen input and output, created using the most detailed information available, are important tools for assessing enviro...
Il potenziale informativo sull’uso/copertura del suolo a livello italiano è migliorato notevolmente negli ultimi anni ed ad oggi si può affermare che lo scenario permette di analizzare e quantificare una serie di
fenomeni territoriali, come ad esempio il consumo di suolo3. Tuttavia, le informazioni attualmente disponibili mantengono una notevole di...
Il progetto ITALI (Integration of Territorial And Land Information) nasce per rispondere alle esigenze dell'Ufficio Statistico dell'Unione Europea (Eurostat), con lo scopo di supportare, integrare e migliorare l’informazione statistica sulla copertura del suolo a livello nazionale correntemente prodotta dall’indagine europea LUCAS (Land Use/Cover A...
Il progetto ITALI (“Integration of Territorial And Land Information”), ha lo scopo di supportare, integrare e migliorare l’informazione sulla copertura del suolo correntemente prodotta dall’indagine triennale europea LUCAS (Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey) e di alcune fonti nazionali. Il progetto “Pilot studies on the provision of harmonized land...
The aim of this study is to analyze the accuracy of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) created with photogrammetric techniques from stereoscopic pairs of aerial photos in areas with complex geomorphologic characteristics. The evaluation of DEM and derived geomorphometric parameters was conducted by comparison with other standard DEM products (i.e. TIN...
Desertification is an important environmental and socio-economic problem that affects much of the world’s drylands, resulting in a significant loss of biological and economic productivity. Responding to desertification by improving the efficiency of land and resource management represents a crucial step towards social welfare in drylands. While sci...
The use of foreign workers in Italian agriculture is well established phenomenon from different motivation and the many implications and consequences. The estimates made by INEA through a dedicated research of twenty-year historical series, were up nearly constant from about 23,000 units in 1989 to 190,000 today. Numbers of this magnitude, combined...
The aim of the present study is to assess remote sensing based approaches to observe and quantify the land use/cover changes that occurred, in the last decades, in a sylvopastoral area located in southern Sardinia (Italy), where different restoration actions have been implemented. Specific research questions are: can simple and cost-effective remote...
Often the recovery of historical data from aerial photographs involves problems (poor quality of the frames and total lack of metadata about the frame camera). The problem can be better dealt with the modern techniques of digital photogrammetry, using procedures and methods of ortho-projection with the support derived from analysis of the current t...
This paper presents a semi-automatic procedure for the classification of high resolution images in order to obtain a fast update of land cover - land use maps. The adopted methodology can be considered as both recursive and hierarchical. It is hierarchical since it is developed as a top-down procedure starting from the main classes and moving down...
Earth From Space, movie produced as part of "The Long Night of Research 2008" at EURAC research in Bolzano, an initiative promoted by the European Commission that involves every year thousands of researchers and research institutions in all European countries. The video shows a series of fascinating satellite images of the Earth like glaciers, huma...
The study is concerned with the assessment of land erosion hazard proneness of the Rio Badu Crabili drainage basin, which lies almost entirely within the municipal territory of Viddalba in North Sardinia between the Anglona and Gallura regions with which it confines. The basin, which covers an area of 42,67 km 2 , forms the final portion of the Riv...
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Dear all,
Does anyone of you know a tool for dissolving/eliminate small polygons by combining them with larger adjacent polygons? In the past I used the tool "Dissolve Adj. Polys" by Jenness Enterprise (http://www.jennessent.com/arcview/dissolve_adjacent_polys.htm) and it worked very well. However, it worked with ArcView3.x and now with the ArcGIS 10.x I don't know how to do it and setting minimum mapping unit quickly and efficiently.
Do you know a tool or software for this operation?
Thanks
I have a soil map with 20 map units for a study area in Sardinia (Italy) and I would like to convert these units (taxonomic) classified as FAO and USDA (e.g. Eutric and Calcic Vertisols FAO legend 1988; Typic Pelloxererts int. Xerofluvents USDA soil taxonomy 1988) for ArcSWAT input.
I would like to create a lookup table for associate my map units like as SSURGO (mukey) soil map tipically used in SWAT for US soils; attached the legend of my map.
Any suggestions? thanks
I would like to know if in southern Europe price volatility (commodity prices, commodities bubble) has led to a reduction in the cultivated area under cereals and durum wheat, especially for the period 2007-2013.
Hi, I want to make one or more density maps (GIS) on urban agriculture in Rome, I have 4000 polygons differentiated by types (community garden, residential garden etc.) and uses (horticulture, vineyards, olive groves etc.). I thought firstly to kernel density to represent the area density, anyone have other ideas?
Regards
Giuseppe
