Description
Urban expansion and the preservation of fringe landscapes are clearly interconnected issues. This book discusses the relationship between landscape and peri-urban agriculture and the possible implications of sustainable land management for fringe land quality, proposing a framework to evaluate the latent nexus between agro-forest systems and human settlements in Southern Europe. Eco-sustainable planning integrated with multi-faceted policy actions (social, economic, cultural and political dimensions) is a relevant approach to reinforce sustainability of fringe landscapes. Permanent assessment of these factors allows for the implementation of different development scenarios. The present work definitely contributes to systemic and multi-scale approaches informing environmental policies, with the aim of achieving an integrated management of peri-urban agricultural landscapes.
Table of Contents
1. Conflicting Landscapes: Urban Fringes and Socioeconomic Transformations in Southern Europe
Antonio Tomao, Rosanna Salvia, Matteo Clemente, and Luca Salvati
2. Densifying, Decompacting, Rethinking Cities: A Mediterranean Debate
Antonio Tomao, Tiziano Sorgi, Matteo Clemente, and Luca Salvati
3. Wildfires and the Local Context: An Empirical Analysis of a Peri-Urban District
Giuseppe Cillis, Rosa Coluzzi, Antonio Tomao, et al.
4. From Deforestation to Forestation: The Long-term Experience of a Mediterranean Area
Antonio Tomao, Agostino Ferrara, Vito Imbrenda, and Luca Salvati
5. Welcome to ‘Forestscapes’: In Between Urban Reality and Rural Idyll
Matteo Clemente, Adriano Conte, Giovanni Quaranta, and Luca Salvati
