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The importance of terracing in the traditional cultural landscapes: the case study of Sicily (Italy)
2012
The landscapes formed by agricultural terraces are the natural result of the encounter between the characteristics of an environment and the creative force and genius of man, the slow evolution of this relationship between nature and culture, a collective project that balanced the need for producing with the resources available and the native character of the environment. These cultural processes produced a great variety of landscapes. However, they are not supported or confirmed by common inventories allowing to identify and classify the typical Main Traditional Landscape (MTL) within which very important is the role carried out by terraces and related man-made structures, both for natural…
El secano mejorado y la agricultura aterrazada. Paisajes significativos con un gran valor socio-ambiental y didáctico
2019
En los últimos veinte años, en las denominadas sociedades postproductivistas se ha producido un redescubrimiento del paisaje asociado a su identificación como un elemento identitario y de calidad. En la provincia de Alicante, representativos resultan el denominado secano mejorado (aprovechamiento de turbias) característico de la comarca de l’Alacantí y los paisajes aterrazados (Montaña de Alicante). Los objetivos de esta investigación son: 1) Analizar la ordenación tradicional de los paisajes derivados del uso de turbias y los aterrazados; 2) Analizar las estrategias de adaptación al medio y cómo el proceso de abandono ha repercutido ambientalmente en el área de estudio; 3) Poner de manifie…
Hillslope degradation in representative Italian areas. Just soil erosion risk or opportunity for development?
2018
In recent years, much research have dealt with the impact of human and climate change on the morpho-evolution of Mediterranean catchments characterized by high ecological and cultural value. In this paper, we speculated how humans can influence hillslope degradation by reviewing the relationships between denudation processes and land use changes in some representative areas located in different Italian regions (i.e., Liguria, Tuscany, Basilicata, and Sicily). The selected study cases are characterized by different climatic and geological features, land use, and land management and can be considered indicative of the hillslope degradation issues that affected the Apennines during the last ce…