Stimulating a spatial planning for rural areas, the book proposes a dynamic image of Mediterranean rural landscapes, providing novel interpretations, conceptual definitions, and operational tools designed to reduce ecological fragility and economic vulnerability.
Table of Contents
1. Toward a balanced development of forest and agricultural land? A Mediterranean perspective2. A renewed ‘Sustainability Thinking’ is possible: Land Resources, Economic Development and Global Change in Southern Europe
3. Sustainability Strategies for Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide: Implications across Economic, Social, and Environmental Front
4. Economic and Environmental convergence and the quest for sustainable development
5. Sustainability, Resilience, Land Degradation and Regional Disparities: (Re)framing four hegemonic concepts from a ‘rural’ perspective
6. A brief Outlook at the long-term Evolution of Agriculture and the Environmental Consequences in Italy
7. Rural development and Environmental Sustainability in advanced economies: The socio-ecological role of traditional crops
8. Toward an unsustainable pasture? The Influence of topographical position on soil compaction at the farm scale
9. Sustainable development and integrated soil management in Mediterranean vineyards
10. Land Degradation and Sustainable Development: a Multi-step Statistical Framework to Complexity Analysis of Soil Quality
11. Toward a Mediterranean model of rural settlement? Land degradation and the evolving demographic pressure in Italy, 1972-2021
12. Spending for the environment: a quantitative analysis of local treasure expenditure in Italy
13. The economic costs of forest fires: a simplified accounting system for Mediterranean Europe
14. Rural depopulation and land abandonment: the quest for a comprehensive framework and the experience of Itay
15. Socio-economically and environmentally disadvantaged (rural) Regions in European Union: The case of Western Macedonia
16. Mediterranean Environments and Local Communities: Monitoring Demands and Implications for Mitigation Policies
Authors
Luca Salvati CREA, Rome, Italy.Luca Salvati is an adjunct professor and staff researcher at the Faculty of Economics in Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2001 he has been staff researcher at the National Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA). From 2006 to 2010 he was permanent researcher at the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). He also had collaborations with public research bodies such as the National Research Council (CNR) and the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) and numerous universities both in Italy and abroad. He has carried out continuous research periods abroad (2012-2014) at various public universities and research institutions in France (Toulouse), Spain (Barcelona) and Greece (Athens). He is an expert in the topics of official statistics, spatial statistics, Geographic Information Systems and Remote sensing applied to socioeconomic and environmental issues. He has conducted studies on topics of economic statistics, urban economics, regional demography, and sustainable development, using exploratory multivariate statistics and geographic information systems for decision support, more recently developing studies on the monetary evaluation of natural resources. He has held courses in Economic Statistics (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Basic Mathematics (University of Rome La Sapienza), Multivariate Statistics (University of Roma Tre), Regional Economics (University of Camerino, University of Eastern Piedmont), Strategic Evaluation of environmental impact (University of Roma Tre). He is a member of the teaching staff of the doctorate of "Models for economics and finance", curriculum of Economic Statistics (University of Rome La Sapienza). He has supervised master's and doctoral theses, both in Italian universities and abroad. He has published more than 30 printed books and over 600 scientific publications in English.
