
Stefania PindozziUniversity of Naples Federico II | UNINA · Department of Agriculture
Stefania Pindozzi
PhD in Science and technologies for forest and environmental management
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January 2012 - present
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The landscape has undergone accelerated and strong changes due to anthropic pressures. Urbanization and urban sprawl as well as the spread of industrial and tertiary activities, in conjunction with intensification of agricultural activities, have generated new types of landscape. This growing phenomenon, which is throwing the trad...
Open manure storage contributes to the release of ammonia (NH3) into the atmosphere. Tank floating covers represent an effective technique to reduce NH3 emissions and biochar has been gain attention as a floating cover and as manure additive. Nevertheless, the mechanisms involved in the process still need to be elucidated since they are influenced...
CONTEXT
Identifying the marginal lands distribution and understanding the criteria and processes which characterize them, is strategic both to improve their conditions and to support a broad-scale suitable landscape development.
OBJECTIVE
The main aims of the work are: i. to support the identification of marginal land for agricultural uses and, sp...
Anaerobic digestion can provide a valuable aid to manure management while producing renewable energy. Biogas production is highly dependent on the size and composition of livestock farms, and the availability of fresh manure can vary throughout the year, limiting reliable assessment of potential production. The aim of this study is to develop an af...
In the last two centuries, land-use change (LUC) has been the most important direct change driver for terrestrial ecosystems. In contrast with the consequent ecosystem degradation, forward-looking spatial policies and target landscape and land-use planning processes are needed from a sustainability perspective. The present paper proposes a framewor...
In the last two centuries, land use change (LUC) has been the most important direct changes driver for terrestrial ecosystems. To contrast the consequent ecosystems degradation, forward-looking spatial policies and target landscape and land-use planning processes, promoting a sustainable land use change, are needed. The present paper proposes a fra...
Livestock digestate provides nutrients and organic matter to the soil while increasing agricultural sustainability. Nevertheless, nitrogen (N) losses due to the nutrient surplus in regions characterized by intensive animal farming activities still represent an unsolved issue. For this purpose, digestate needs proper treatment and management to avoi...
This study investigates the dark fermentation of fruit and vegetable waste under meso-philic conditions (30-34 °C), as a valorization route for H2 and volatile fatty acids production, simulating the open market waste composition over the year in two Mediterranean countries. Specifically , the study focuses on the effect of the (i) seasonal variabil...
In recent decades in the Mediterranean basin there has been a considerable increase in both the number of wildfires and the extent of fire-damaged areas, resulting in ecological and socio-economic impacts. Protected areas are particularly vulnerable and many characteristics underpinning their legal protection are threatened. Several studies have be...
Peri-urban areas constitute an enormous resource in terms of natural capital, landscape heritage and economic activities, but, at the same time, they are often affected by physical and socio-economic degradation, drawing the attention of decision makers and planners. Many studies have focused on these contexts both in terms of suburbs, with a close...
Wildfires are one of the most important natural disturbances in vegetation biomes. In recent decades, both the number and severity of fires have significantly increased in Mediterranean forests, frequently resulting in catastrophic events. In this scenario, we aimed to explore the flow of ecosystem services and their related economic value that was...
During the manure storage, ammonia (NH3) and
methane (CH4) emissions play an important role in the
optimization of manure management of a farm. Different cover
types were studied over the years: natural or composite
materials; permanent or not. Quite recently, there has been a
growing interest in biochar cover application on the storage
tanks. Diff...
The importance of collaboration among peers in science is widely investigated: an essential issue is the relevance of credits shared among scholars for the good faith and cooperation in research projects. Despite its significance, so far in Italy the usefulness of collaboration in research activities is not taken in due consideration by both scient...
Agriculture is mainly responsible for ammonia (NH3) volatilisation. A common effort to produce reliable quantifications, national emission inventories, and policies is needed to reduce health and environmental issues related to this emission. Sources of NH3 are locally distributed and mainly depend on farm building characteristics, management of ex...
Agriculture is responsible for more than 90% of ammonia emissions in the air. To control emission levels and meet requirements of the National Emission Ceilings Directive, mitigation strategies must be implemented. This study illustrates a laboratory scale study aimed to assess how to control the ammonia emissions during and after storage phase of...
In Campania Region, the rise in Buffalo heads reared plays an important role in the manure management of the region. Moreover, in order to comply with the European regulation (the National Emission Ceiling), the updating of national emission inventories, as well as the investigation of different fertilizers, manure treatments prior to field applica...
Landscape is increasingly characterized by a multifaced nature. In scientific literature and landscape governance, new landscape definitions are often coined to explain new meanings and to define specific intervention strategies and tools. The present study purposes a framework for the identification of hybrid landscapes as support for land-use pla...
The storage of livestock manure is responsible for ammonia emissions into the atmosphere. Different natural covers could be used during animal manure storage, but the mitigation effect is influenced by the manure characteristics due to the housing or treatment systems. Starting from cattle and buffalo manure, the objectives of this study were (i) t...
Starting from the identification of marginal areas, this work presents a possible physical-mathematical approach as a support to landscape planning, based on the pragmatic determination of the predictable environmental effects connected to land use changes (LUC) and related to objective and quantitative ecological indicators for environmental impac...
Cattle breeding is almost diffused around the world, with a growth of 7% in the last ten years. The increase in manure production makes cattle farms responsible for ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) emissions into the atmosphere. Many treatments have been adopted to reduce gaseous emissions, in order to comply with European regulations. Anaerobic dig...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a mature technology commonly used for manure treatment, both for the stabilisation of waste and for the production of energy. The introduction of new incentives could represent an opportunity for biogas production, when the current feed-in-tariffs, which improved the financial feasibility of AD plants producing electrici...
The post-treatment of biomass from phytoremediation is not yet a well-established practice due to the risk induced by the presence of Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs). Pyrolysis is a thermochemical treatment that reduces the volume and weight of contaminated matter producing a combustible vapor phase and a solid residue (char). A key factor enhanc...
Agriculture is still the main source of NH3 emissions. Consequently, ammonia reduction and monitoring are included in the strict EU targets. Unfortunately, the main issue with the quantification of NH3 emissions is that some uncertainties are still related to NH3 volatilization measurements, mainly because of the absence of a standard measurement t...
Historical land use change studies and modelling support the analysis of current land use dynamics and landscape pattern. Historical maps are sources of geographical information and traditionally landscape uses, once geo-referencing accuracy and information reliability have been verified. GIS processing and landscape metrics allow assessing and dee...
Most of the European territory cannot be understood as simply places with specific and defined spatial, functional and perceptive features. In this general view, marginal lands, "territories in between" (TiB), “less favoured areas” (LFA), are recognized as areas in transformation, in which particular attention should be paid in order to a coordinat...
Livestock manure management, storage, and especially field application for crop productions have large environmental impacts related to the considerable losses of reactive nitrogen (N). Effective emissions-reducing strategies and consolidated measurement methods are key aspects contributing to the decrease of the environmental impacts of livestock...
Quite recently, considerable attention has been paid to the effect of anaerobic digestion on ammonia emissions from digestate spreading in the field, due to the growing interest in NH3 emission monitoring. Unfortunately, there are still some different studies finding about the effect of anaerobic digestion on ammonia emissions. Thus, more research...
Ammonia volatilization is widely recognized as one of the major environmental European problems, due to the increase in livestock farming activities. As a consequence, accurate ammonia assessment is needed in order to control ammonia emissions and to update national emission inventories. Besides some uncertainties still related to the measurement m...
The long-standing awareness of the environmental impact of land-use change (LUC) has led scientific community to develop tools able to predict their amount and to evaluate their effect on environment, with the aim supporting policy makers in their planning activities. This paper proposes an implementation of the Dyna-CLUE model applied to the Litor...
Restoration of soils contaminated by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) can be carried out through phytoremediation technique able to reduce bioavailable PTEs by translocation them from the soil to the different organs of the plants. The European LIFE ECOREMED project is now implementing an eco- compatible protocol for soil restoration through phyto...
Terraced landscapes are largely widespread in Mediterranean area from Neolithic, since their construction has been essential to make mountain or steep slope areas habitable and arable. Among these areas, Amalfi Coast is the most famous zone thanks the uniqueness of its landscape. Over the years, these areas have been subjected to quick geomorpholog...
Objectives
Ammonia emissions represent a growing issue for European countries due to the rapid increase in livestock production and next National Emission Ceilings EU Directive adoption, which will limit emissions of NH3 as well as SO2, NOx and NMVOC applicable from 2020 and 2030. Recent researches are devoted to the individuation of standard metho...
This paper deals with the environmental characterization of a large and densely populated area, with a poor reputation for contamination, considering the contribution of environmental features (air, soil, soil hydraulic and groundwater) and the potential effects on human health. The use of Geographic Information System (GIS) has made possible a geo...
Biodiversity and landscape management are recognized as crucial pillars of EU policies and strategies in order to ensure the integration of environmental issues with socio-economic needs at the base of human-made changes, in structural and functional terms. Midterm EU’s Biodiversity Strategy (Feb 2th 2016) highlights the importance of biodiversity...
This paper deals with the environmental characterization of a large and densely populated area, with a poor reputation for contamination, considering the contribution of environmental features (air, soil, soil hydraulic and groundwater) and the potential effects on human health. The use of Geographic Information System (GIS) has made possible a geo...
Livestock and agricultural activities contribute significantly to atmospheric ammonia emission in Europe. The volatilization process depends on many factors, especially wind speed and rainfall. The most important methods to evaluate ammonia volatilization are the wind tunnel and micrometeorological methods. The tunnels are more flexible and simple...
Contaminated areas represent a crucial concern in contemporary planning all over the world. The absence of shared value for such areas leads to abandonment and soil sealing specially if such areas have lost their agricultural potential. The European Project LIFE/ENV/IT/275 Ecoremed has implemented a protocol for the bioremediation of contaminated s...
Historical maps are effective sources of geographical information and useful for historical and territorial research. In this study, the examination of landscape dynamics on the basis of historical maps over a period of more than 200 years was conducted. The study area is Sorrento peninsula and part of the near Sarno river basin in South Italy. Thi...
The ammonia volatilization process depends on many factors (soil conditions, agricultural practices, slurry characteristics and climate conditions, especially the wind speed and rainfall). Consequently it is difficult to assess the atmospheric ammonia fluxes and there is no standard measurement for this purpose. The wind tunnel is often preferred f...
Campania Region of Southern Italy has a complex environmental situation, due to geogenic and anthropogenic soil pollution. Some of the pollutants such as copper are mobilized in the organic matter. It has been shown that wetlands provide physical as well as biogeochemical barriers against pollutants. Therefore, the objective of this study was to in...
The automatic milking systems (AMS) have been deeply studied in dairy cows applications, but not in the case of buffaloes; although, a few applications to the species can be found in literature. The objective of this study is to compare some important functional aspects of AMS with the conventional milking systems. Aspects such as adaptation of buf...
The performance of coppice harvesting machines is influenced by parameters such as field yield, the shape and size of the plantation and the space for turning at the headland. The quality of chips and the effect of the dendrometric characteristic of nine different species (Fraxinus angustifolia, Robinia pseudoacacia, Salix alba, Eucalyptus occident...
The accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural soils is a serious environmental problem. The Campania region in southern Italy has higher levels of cancer risk, presumably due to the accumulation of geogenic and anthropogenic soil pollutants, some of which have been incorporated into organic matter. The aim of this study was to introduce and test...
This study employed the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to evaluate the environmental impacts of utilizing cattle manure as a substrate for biogas generation for cooking energy in Uganda. Results of the study showed that biogas energy systems based of cattle manure has potential environmental benefits in comparison to charcoal produced from...
In many areas of the world there are contaminated areas due to illegal actions. Naples and the whole Campania region, in South of Italy, are under the pressure of mass media caused by the discover of criminal acts and are now suffering the damage of their image in tourism, culture and agriculture, in addition to problems related to public health....
Campania region has always been known for the beauty and prosperity of its landscapes. Unfortunately, nowadays, it is in an extremely critical environmental situation. In fact, although it occupies the 18th position in the national ranking of the death rate, it occupies the 1st place in the annual report of male cancer mortality rate and the 3rd po...
Poor access to clean and reliable energy technologies is a major challenge to most developing countries. The decision to introduce new technologies is often faced by low adoption rates or even public opposition. In addition, the data required for effective decision making is often inadequate or even lacking, thus constraining the planning process....
Poor access to clean and reliable energy technologies is a major challenge to
most developing countries. The decision to introduce new technologies is often faced by
low adoption rates or even public opposition. In addition, the data required for effective
decision making is often inadequate or even lacking, thus constraining the planning process....
Rural landscapes are characterized by great heterogeneity, thus for any policy of landscape protection and management, the delineation of landscape structures is a prerequisite and the demand for such information at the scale of large catchments or basins. Focusing on wetlands, different studies proposed indexes to predict their extension, based on...
Campania region is undergoing a new and important land use change (LUC). Large areas under tobacco are experiencing a severe economic crisis and cereal areas, especially in the hill, are cultivated with increasing difficulty, with poor economic results (yield value of 2.5 t/ha/year) and under the risk of erosion. No-food crops suitable in these con...
The globalization of the tobacco production has led to a drop in competitiveness of the Italian tobacco on the world market. Burley is the main variety of tobacco cropped in Campania region of Southern Italy. Its leaves have to be sewn, in the curing phase. Aim of this work is to show the results of the implementation of a new harvest machine proto...
The globalization of the tobacco production has led to a drop in competitiveness of the Italian tobacco on the world market. Burley is the main variety of tobacco cropped in Campania region of Southern Italy. Its leaves have to be sewn, in the curing phase. Aim of this work is to show the results of the implementation of a new harvest machine proto...
Campania region is undergoing a new and important land use change (LUC). Large areas under tobacco are experiencing a severe economic crisis and cereal areas, especially in the hill, are cultivated with increasing difficulty, with poor economic results (yield value of 2.5 t/ha/year) and under the risk of erosion. No-food crops suitable in these con...
Campania region is undergoing a new and important land use change (LUC). Large areas under tobacco are experiencing a severe economic crisis and cereal areas, especially in the hill, are cultivated with increasing difficulty, with poor economic results (yield value of 2.5 t/ha/year) and under the risk of erosion. No-food crops suitable in these con...
Biomass is the major source of energy in most developing countries. Howeyer, there are concerns about the sustainability of biomass supplies and the environmental impacts resulting from their use. Use of residues could contribute to ensuring sustainable supply of biomass energy. This study presents findings of an evaluation of the energy potential...
In order to evaluate the performance of two empirical models for buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) manure evaporation, predictions were compared with measured data. The two models were developed by adapting the potential evapotranspiration models of Tombesi-Lauciani and Hargreaves. The data used for assessing the manure evaporation in situ, were derived fr...