Land use strongly influences soil properties and unsuitable practices lead to degradation of soil and environmental quality. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of different land uses on some chemical properties of soils developed from Pliocene clays, within hilly environments of central and southern Italy. The areas investigated are located in Vicarello di Volterra (Pisa, Tuscany), S. Quirico d'Orcia (Siena, Tuscany) and Soveria Simeri (Catanzaro, Calabria).
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Italy
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Greece
The diversity and abundance of wild bees ensures the delivery of pollination services and the maintenance of ecosystem diversity. As previous studies carried out in Central Europe and the US have shown, bee diversity and abundance is influenced by the structure and the composition of the surrounding landscape. Comparable studies have so far not been carried out in the Mediterranean region. The present study examines the influence of Mediterranean landscape context on the diversity and abundance of wild bees. To do this, we sampled bees in 13 sites in olive groves on Lesvos Island, Greece.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2011Italy
Il contributo pone in luce alcune caratteristiche dei sistemi informativi geografici necessari alla gestione integrata delle funzioni di pianificazione del territorio, di valutazione immobiliare e di manutenzione della base imponibile immobiliare, ed in particolare le caratteristiche di interoperabilità fra le diverse basi dati gestite dai settori della PA variamente competenti in materia di governo del territorio, che alla luce della Direttiva europea INSPIRE dovranno conseguire elevati standard di accessibilità e di condivisione dell’informazione.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2011Italy
Partendo dai presupposti dettati dai postulati estimativi dell’ordinarietà, della previsione e della comparazione, il legame tra la stima del Valore di Mercato e il Prezzo di Compravendita può essere spiegato da un punto di vista matematico.
Il modello di Prezzo di Compravendita e un campione estimativo significativo sono strumenti centrali per lo sviluppo di uno dei qualsiasi metodi di stima diretti del Valore di Mercato. -
Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Italy
In this paper is presented a methodological approach which integrates statistic modelling and 2-D cellular automata (CA) in order to describe tree species shifts responding to the climate changes foreseen for Italy in the 21st century. Five Italian tree species populations of Abies alba, Pinus sylvestris, Fagus sylvatica, Acer campestris and Quercus suber and their actual potential distributions (PDs) – represented by Importance Value (IV), have been considered.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2012Italy
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2011Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Italy, Africa
The Kagera Transboundary Agro ‐ ecosystem management project is a regional project comprising four East African countries ‐ Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda ‐ that share the Kagera river basin. The agro‐ecosystems in the Kagera basin are facing increasing pressure as a result of rapid population growth and agricultural and livestock intensification characterized by progressive reduction in farm sizes and unsustainable land use and management practices.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2011Italy
Il tema affrontato concerne il ruolo dell’informazione economica nell’ambito dei mercati immobiliari.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Fiji, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Belgium, Dominican Republic, Afghanistan, China, Indonesia, Australia, Myanmar, Mozambique, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Italy, Ecuador, Cambodia, India, Sudan
Este manual de capacitación está destinado a personas que trabajan tanto en la gestión de riesgos y respuesta a los desastres naturales, como aquéllas que trabajan en el sector de la tenencia de la tierra. Mediante un formato de auto-capacitación, esta publicación tiene como objetivo brindar una visión general de los aspectos más importantes de la tenencia de la tierra que pueden surgir después de un desastre natural y que necesitan ser considerados e incluidos en los procesos de toma de decisiones asociados con las diferentes fases del manejo de riesgos en los desastres naturales.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Austria, South Africa, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Italy, Australia, Netherlands, Tunisia, Argentina, Senegal, Brazil, Cuba, Europe, Asia, Africa, Northern America
LADA (Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands project) is a scientifically-based approach to assessing and mapping land degradation at different spatial scales ? small to large ? and at various levels ? local to global. It was initiated in drylands, but the methods and tools have been developed so as to be widely applicable in other ecosystems and diverse contexts with minimal required adaptation.
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