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2002 International Year of Mountains

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2002
Switzerland, Chile, Peru, Australia, Jamaica, Bolivia, China, Iran, Russia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Argentina, India, United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
forestry
rural areas
natural resources management
land use
deforestation
natural disasters
rural development
Statements from FAO's Director-General and the King of Nepal, profiles of mountain issues and activities from countries such as Bolivia, Italy, Kyrgyzstan and Peru, and information on mountain forests, tropical cloud forests and sacred mountains complete Unasylva's foray into the mountains.
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Act No. 10 on the development of urban green spaces.

Legge n. 10: Norme per lo sviluppo degli spazi verdi urbani.

Legislation
Italy, Europe, Southern Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land-use planning
urban areas
The aim of this Act is the promotion and development of green spaces in urban areas. The Municipalities shall be responsible for developing urban green spaces within their territories, whilst a special committee under the Ministry of the Environment shall exercise monitoring functions.
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Act No. 426 promoting new interventions in the environmental field.

Legislation
Italy, Europe, Southern Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
fisheries
protected areas
coastal areas
land management
The purpose of the present Act is to establish a public intervention scheme for the rational exploitation of environmental resources. The scope of this plan is remediation and restoration of polluted sites involving marine areas, lakes and rivers. The Ministry of Health shall start the plan, together with the Regions, in national interest sites and in industrial areas (art. 1). Incentives and financial contribution shall be given to industries and industry consortia interested in the research and development of new rehabilitation technologies.
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Agroforestry creates carbon sinks whilst enhancing the environment in agricultural landscapes in Europe

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, United States of America, Europe
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
environment
farmland
forestry
land use
research
sustainable land management
Agroforestry, relative to conventional agriculture, contributes significantly to carbon sequestration, increases a range of regulating ecosystem services, and enhances biodiversity. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we combined scientific and technical knowledge to evaluate nine environmental pressures in terms of ecosystem services in European farmland and assessed the carbon storage potential of suitable agroforestry systems, proposed by regional experts.
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Assessing Nature-Based Recreation to Support Urban Green Infrastructure Planning in Trento (Italy)

Volume 7 Issue 4

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2018
Italy
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
urban planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
environment
Nature-based recreation is among the most relevant ecosystem services supplied by urban green infrastructure, affecting citizens’ physical and mental wellbeing. Providing adequate green spaces for nature-based recreation is among the main goals of urban planning, but commonly-used indicators offer a partial view on the issue.
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Assessing spatial benefits of urban regeneration programs in a highly vulnerable urban context: A case study in Catania, Italy

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Italy
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urban planning
land use
urban areas
climate change
The relationship between sustainable urban development and environmental sustainability is crucial to every strategy of urban transformation, renewal and regeneration. In particular, urban regeneration entails programmes of urban transformation that involve the rehabilitation of existing parts of a city, re-use previously built-up area and abandoned buildings, and redevelop blighted urban spaces to increase urban sustainability.
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Decree of the President of the Provincial Council No. 29 on forestry.

Regulations
Italy, Europe, Southern Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Tenure
farmland
protected areas
public ownership
pastoralists
forest management plans
forestry
land management
forest conservation
forest land
agriculture
This Decree lays down provisions for implementing Provincial Act No. 21 of 21 October 1996 relative to the forestry sector. The Decree is divided into three Titles and contains two Annexes. Title I regulates the hydrogeological and forest bonds referred to in article 3 of Provincial Act No. 21 of 1996. Article 2 concerns its removal under certain circumstances. Title II lays down particular provisions for bound lands. Part I of Title II regulates the transformation of forests. Article 4 gives the definition of forest.
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Does Forest Expansion Mitigate the Risk of Desertification? Exploring Soil Degradation and Land-Use Changes in a Mediterranean Country

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Italy
Land, Climate Change & Environment
desertification
urban areas
SUMMARY The present study evaluates the vulnerability to soil degradation of four land-use classes (urban areas, cropland, forests and non-forest natural land) during 1960–2010 using the Environmental Sensitive Area Index (ESAI) to verify if forests mitigate the increase of desertification risk in Italy. Results indicate that forests was the class with the lowest level of vulnerability during the whole investigated period and with the growth rate (1960–2010) in the ESAI always below the one observed on a landscape scale.
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Environmental Action Strategy for Sustainable Development in Italy.

National Policies
January, 2002
Italy
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
fisheries
natural disasters
land management
coastal areas
The Environmental Action Strategy for Sustainable Development in Italy is a strategic instrument with a national coverage which sets out the goals to be attained for sustainable development and outlines related measures and actions to be undertaken. The national environmental action strategy ensures continuity to the European Union action, namely through the Sixth Environmental Action Plan, with the targets regarding social cohesion, full employment and environmental protection approved by the Council of Europe in Lisbon and Göthenburg.
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Grizzly Bear Management in the Kananaskis Valley: Forty Years of Figuring It Out

Volume 9 Issue 12

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Italy
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
protected areas
Case studies offer rich insight into the way knowledge is gathered, understood, and applied (or not) in parks and conservation contexts. This study aims to understand how knowledge and information have been used to inform decision-making about human-wildlife co-existence—specifically what knowledge has informed decisions related to grizzly bear management in the Kananaskis Valley. Focus groups of decision-makers involved in the valley’s bear program painted a rich account of decision-making since the late 1970s that was coded thematically.