Autori
Marino, Davide
Marucci, Angelo
Pili, Silvia
Palmieri, Margherita

Titolo
Long-term land cover changes and ecosystem services variation: have the anthropogenic transformations degraded human well-being in Italy?
Periodico
Rivista di economia agraria
Anno: 2022 - Volume: 77 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 7 - Pagina finale: 23

Landscape composition has a crucial role in determining ecosystem func-tioning and human well-being. Human activities (e.g. urban expansion or agricultural intensification) have strongly modified the natural environment and ecosystem integri-ty. This paper presents an exemplary application of the ecosystem service (ES) concept to the whole Italian territory. A GIS-based analysis of the long-term dynamics (1960-2018) between land cover changes and landscapes’ capacities to provide ecosystem services was conducted in order to achieve a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the supply and demand of ES. The applied methodology considers a matrix linking spatially explicit biophysical landscape units to ecosystem services supply, which was united in a GIS framework. We set the analysis considering national scales and 3 time periods (1960-1990, 1990-2018, 1960-2018). As main results we found a great impact of intensification and urbanization on the decline of ES supply, while forest expansion and forest permanence determined the most important increases. The analysis detect-ed several variations of ES supply that have direct impact on humans and can provide information about the importance of preserving the environment and the benefits we derive from nature



SICI: 0035-6190(2022)77:1<7:LLCCAE>2.0.ZU;2-U
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