Coastal vs inland sensitivity to desertification: a diachronic analysis of biophysical and socioeconomic factors in Latium, Italy

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• 作者：Luca Salvati ; Daniela Smiraglia ; Sofia Bajocco ; Marco Zitti…
• 关键词：Composite index ; Indicators ; Territorial disparities ; Castelporziano forest ; Mediterranean basin
• 刊名：Rendiconti Lincei
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：26
• 期：3-supp
• 页码：571-576
• 全文大小：673 KB
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• 作者单位：Luca Salvati (1)
  Daniela Smiraglia (2)
  Sofia Bajocco (2)
  Marco Zitti (2)
  Luigi Perini (2)
  
  1. Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Centre for the Study of Plant-Soil Interactions (CRA-RPS), Via della Navicella 2-4, 00184, Rome, Italy
  2. Consiglio per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Unit of Climatology and Meteorology applied to Agriculture, Via del Caravita 7a, 00186, Rome, Italy
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Life Sciences
  Biomedicine
  History of Science
  
• 出版者：Springer Milan
• ISSN：1720-0776

文摘

The present study assesses the spatial distribution of a composite index of land sensitivity to desertification (called ISD) in the coastal area of Rome, including natural areas such as Castelporziano forest, compared with inland areas of Latium region, central Italy. Based on two partial indicators integrating 10 elementary variables (five biophysical attributes investigating climate, soil and vegetation, and five socioeconomic attributes assessing population pressure, changes in the use of land and human pressure), the ISD was calculated for two reference years (1970 and 2000) and at the municipal scale in Latium region. Results indicate a positive trend in the ISD in both coastal and inland areas with territorial disparities widening significantly over the studied period. Interestingly, coastal urban and peri-urban municipalities showed the highest growth rate in the ISD. These finding possibly reflects rising human pressure in lowland and coastal areas experiencing urbanization compared to internal hilly and mountain areas.