Search results for "Land area"
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Disintegration of Italian rural landscapes to international environmental agreements
2015
In Italy, the first law that puts landscape and historical buildings under public control was implemented in 1922. While this represents a significant achievement for those times, for that law landscape essentially has an historical and aesthetic connotation, without any explicit reference to the components of flora, fauna and geology. Today, many protection policies and initiatives are still biased by the lack of reference to the intrinsic value that biodiversity and ecosystem services have for the maintenance of traditional landscapes, as well as for the survival of the human species. The priority accorded to historical and aesthetic values can lead to a lack of attention to the complex r…
Adequate Urinary Iodine Concentration among Infants in the Inland Area of Norway
2021
Considering the importance of iodine to support optimal growth and neurological development of the brain and central nervous system, this study aimed to assess and evaluate iodine status in Norwegian infants. We collected data on dietary intake of iodine, iodine knowledge in mothers, and assessed iodine concentration in mother’s breast milk and in infant’s urine in a cross-sectional study at two public healthcare clinics in the inland area of Norway. In the 130 mother–infant pairs, the estimated infant 24-h median iodine intake was 50 (IQR 31, 78) µg/day. The median infant urinary iodine concentration (UIC) was 146 (IQR 93, 250) µg/L and within the recommended median defined by the World He…
A new approach to analyzing groundwater trough its manifestations in the landscapes and toponymy: "Subtle" Hydrogeology
2019
espanol“Hidrogeologia sutil” se refiere al conjunto de manifestaciones y procesos del agua subterranea de acuiferos minusculos en un area particular que, en muchos casos, involucra dimensiones humanas y sociales. Son caracteristicas aparentemente insignificantes, pero encierran antiguos secretos de la relacion agua subterranea y paisaje. El agua subterranea, en formaciones multicapa de baja permeabilidad con poco espesor saturado, apenas tiene valor comercial. Sin embargo, es un recurso valioso para las sociedades rurales tradicionales, y ha dado lugar a una amplia gama de manifestaciones ecologicas, culturales, patrimoniales y toponimicas. Estas manifestaciones se estudian en la cuenca alt…
Persistence of temperature and precipitation: from local to global anomalies
2021
Using detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) we find that all continents are persistent in temperature. The scaling exponents of the southern hemisphere (SH) continents, i.e., South America (0.77) and Oceania (0.72) are somewhat higher than scaling exponents of Europe (0.70), Asia (0.69) and North America (0.64), but the scaling of Africa is by far the highest (0.86). The reason for this is the location of Africa near the equator. The scaling exponents of the precipitation are much smaller, i.e. between 0.55 (Europe) and 0.68 (North America). The scaling exponent of Europe is near that of the random noise (0.5), while the other continents are slightly persistent in precipitation. We also show…
Hydrogeochemistry and Water Balance in the Coastal Wetland Area of “Biviere di Gela,” Sicily, Italy
2006
In the study area physical and chemical factors control the composition of surface and groundwaters, which in turn determine the water quality of the "Biviere di Gela" lake. These factors combine to create diverse water types which change their compositional character spatially as rainfall infiltrates the soil zone, moves down a topographically defined flow path, and interacts with bedrock minerals. Low-salinity waters, which represent the initial stage of underground circulation, start dissolving calcium carbonate from the local rocks. The progressive increase in salinity, characterized by substantially higher Ca, SO4, Na and Cl concentrations, suggests that dissolution of CaSO4 and NaCl i…
Strategies for the valorization of the small towns in the inland areas of Sicily
2019
La crisi degli insediamenti minori (specie nelle aree interne che presentano maggiore fragilità) impone che si debba ragionare su aree vaste per poter elaborare nuove visioni e costruire una nuova cittadinanza. La possibilità di operare sul territorio esteso diventa premessa di metodo e di operabilità del progetto, riconoscendo che i territori frammentati, le risorse puntuali (anche di grande valore storico e culturale) non sono più in grado di generare processi. The crisis of small settlements (especially in inland areas that are very fragile) requires a large-scale reasoning to be able to develop new visions and build a new citizenship. The possibility of operating on a wide territory bec…
Strategie per la valorizzazione delle città-paese nelle aree interne della Sicilia
2019
La crisi degli insediamenti minori (specie nelle aree interne che presentano maggiore fragilità) impone che si debba ragionare su aree vaste per poter elaborare nuove visioni e costruire una nuova cittadinanza. La possibilità di operare sul territorio esteso diventa premessa di metodo e di operabilità del progetto, riconoscendo che i territori frammentati, le risorse puntuali (anche di grande valore storico e culturale) non sono più in grado di generare processi. Solo l’ipotesi di una riqualificazione spaziale a grande scala, la determinazione di una rete o filiera con nodi reali (che sono luoghi e spazi che riconducono poi a operare sui micro-paesaggi) può prefigurare una nuova spazialità …
Territorial Connection and Cohesion - The Case of Agrigento Inland Area
2014
The Europe 2020 strategy and the Horizon 2020 program can begin a real path about the role that the city will be able play for a new development. Usually, it is in the cities that are intensifying tangible and intangible social relations and, given that they focused almost 70% of the world population, it is clear that the city must begin to start any development scenario: the problems / opportunities related to the management of natural resources, energy to move. The culture is a «primary factor of urban creativity (...), the city's identity that has its roots the program schedule of history and extends its branches in the future» [4], awaiting a new model of development local self-sustaina…
Conservazione del suolo e politiche di sviluppo nella programmazione comunitaria 2014-2020: Le aree interne.
2014
During the next EU programming, Italy will suggest to commit a substantial portion of the funds to the development of the inland areas. This will happen through a structured program that will interact, since its start-up, with the local subjects in order to combine and to bind the development with the territory. The maintenance of the territory together with the involvement of the local communities focus the attention on the management of the common goods. The debate is still open and the inland areas policy which is built up by the Department for Development and Economic Cohesion (formerly the Department for Development Policy and Cohesion) of the Ministry of Economic Development, does not…
RIABITARE IL PATRIMONIO URBANO ED EDILIZIO DEI TERRITORI INTERNI: SPAZIO DIGITALE PER SERVIZI SANITARI EFFICIENTI
2020
La necessità del distanziamento fisico, dettata dall’epoca pandemica in corso, ricade inevitabilmente sulla vivibilità degli spazi urbani e di quelli abitativi. L’esigenza pressante di qualità della vita, nella fisicità e nelle relazioni umane, impone di riguardare con interesse a quei luoghi che ne sono depositari per sedimentazione storica. Una delle risposte è nel riabitare i centri minori dei territori interni, luoghi con bassa densità demografica e costruita, luoghi resilienti alle mutazioni urbane, luoghi salubri. Questi luoghi, di contro, sono affetti da marginalità e carenze di infrastrutture e servizi. Le tecnologie digitali si propongono sempre più come ausilio nel recupero del pa…