1st Edition
Landscape complexity Ecosystem Dynamics, Economic Pressure and Optimal Resource Management
Chapter 1. Socio-ecological assessment of landscape systems: Toward an integrated perspective
Alessia D’Agata, Clio Ciaschini, Marco Maialetti, Donato Scarpitta, Gianluca Egidi, Roberto Bianchini, Ioannis Konaxis
Chapter 2. Environmental degradation in complex landscapes: from theory to practice
Rosanna Salvia, Alessia D’Agata, Adele Sateriano, Marco Maialetti, Luca Salvati, Ioannis Konaxis, Giovanni Quaranta
Chapter 3. Aesthetic value, biodiversity, and ecosystem services: optimal resources’ management and the ‘holistic’ role of landscape
Alessia D’Agata, Clio Ciaschini, Marco Maialetti, Donato Scarpitta, Rosanna Salvia, Giovanni Quaranta, Ioannis Konaxis
Chapter 4. Investigating complex landscape systems: inter-disciplinary paradigms in-between science and policy
Adele Sateriano, Alessia D’Agata, Marco Maialetti, Andrea Colantoni, Luca Salvati, Donato Scarpitta, Ioannis Konaxis
Chapter 5. Envisioning landscape structures with a non-parametric, multidimensional analysis of official statistics
Clio Ciaschini, Donato Scarpitta, Alessia D’Agata, Enrico Maria Mosconi, Marco Maialetti, Adele Sateriano, Ioannis Konaxis
Chapter 6. ‘Burnt landscapes’: improving wildfire management in sensitive hotspots
Alessia D’Agata, Marco Maialetti, Donato Scarpitta, Vito Imbrenda, Pierpaolo Lombardi, Luca Salvati
Chapter 7. The role of local landmarks in environmental education
Evangelos C. Papakitsos, Eleni Verouti, Marco Maialetti, Christina Papavasileiou, Anastasios Mavrakis
Chapter 8. Unraveling the inherent complexity in spatio-temporal patterns of urbanization: Theoretical and empirical contributions from global to local observation scales
Marco Maialetti, Clio Ciaschini, Donato Scarpitta, Bogdana Nosova, Gianluigi Salvucci, Luca Salvati
Biography
Alessia D’Agata is visiting scholar at the Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and doctoral candidate at the Department of Methods and Models for Territory, Economy and Finance, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, supported by a prestigious fellowship. She holds a master’s in building engineering and architecture and a master’s in GIScience for the integrated management of land and natural resources. Her main research interests include urban planning and policy, agricultural and environmental sustainability, official statistics, and normative approaches to sustainable development. She published articles in top-field scientific journals dealing with land-use change and forest dynamics.
Ioannis Konaxis, PhD, is assistant professor of sustainable eco-tourism and nature conservation at the Business School of the public University of Piraeus, Greece. He teaches several classes of tourism business and economics, ecological conservation of protected areas, landscape and sustainable development. He published theoretical and applied research in sustainable tourism management in prestigious international journals and book series.
Luca Salvati, PhD, is a senior researcher and professor of economic statistics at the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His main research interests include regional and urban economics, housing policy, spatial planning, sustainable development, and indication theory. He has published more than 700 scientific articles in international journals and technical books on economic and statistical issues.
