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Biblioteca Towards Land Consumption Neutrality and Natural Capital Enhancement at Urban Landscape Scale

Towards Land Consumption Neutrality and Natural Capital Enhancement at Urban Landscape Scale

Towards Land Consumption Neutrality and Natural Capital Enhancement at Urban Landscape Scale

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Diciembre 2022
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LP-midp000950

Among the UNCCD SDGs 2030, there is the recognition that land consumption can strongly affect the provision of ecosystem services. From the perspective of land degradation neutrality, urban level is the right scale when planning actions against land consumption. The aims of this research are: (1) to assess land consumption at urban landscape scale and its effects on natural capital flow provision; and (2) to identify sustainable strategic planning choices for land consumption mitigation and natural capital enhancement. We propose and test an approach based on multi-temporal landscape spatial analysis (land use/land cover map, land consumption map, and landscape metrics) and ecosystem services’ flow assessment for the identification of areas at risk of loss of natural capital flow. The results have shown that from 2006 to 2019, land consumption has increased with a consequent decrease of natural capital flow. LULC dynamics has been analyzed in terms of landscape risk to lose natural capital flow, highlighting that the management of Galatone urban landscape is still far from land consumption neutrality. Landscape metrics have allowed the analysis of the aggregation among land consumption areas. The mitigation of land consumption should be based on the identification of suitable nature-based solutions towards the balance between past land consumption and future land recovery.

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Valente, DonatellaLovello, Erica M.Giannuzzi, Cosimo G.Scardia Scardia, Angela M.Marinelli, Maria V.Petrosillo, Irene

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