1st Edition

Peri-urban Conflicts and Environmental Challenges A Mediterranean Perspective

Edited By Antonio Tomao, Matteo Clemente Copyright 2023
124 Pages 11 Color & 11 B/W Illustrations
by River Publishers

124 Pages 11 Color & 11 B/W Illustrations
by River Publishers

124 Pages 11 Color & 11 B/W Illustrations
by River Publishers

Urban expansion and the preservation of fringe landscapes are clearly interconnected issues. This book discusses the relationship between landscape and peri-urban agriculture and the possible implications of sustainable land management for fringe land quality, proposing a framework to evaluate the latent nexus between agro-forest systems and human settlements in Southern Europe. Eco-sustainable... Read more

1. Conflicting Landscapes: Urban Fringes and Socioeconomic Transformations in Southern Europe

Antonio Tomao, Rosanna Salvia, Matteo Clemente, and Luca Salvati

2. Densifying, Decompacting, Rethinking Cities: A Mediterranean Debate

Antonio Tomao, Tiziano Sorgi, Matteo Clemente, and Luca Salvati

3. Wildfires and the Local Context: An Empirical Analysis of a Peri-Urban District

Giuseppe Cillis, Rosa Coluzzi, Antonio Tomao, et al.

4. From Deforestation to Forestation: The Long-term Experience of a Mediterranean Area

Antonio Tomao, Agostino Ferrara, Vito Imbrenda, and Luca Salvati

5. Welcome to ‘Forestscapes’: In Between Urban Reality and Rural Idyll

Matteo Clemente, Adriano Conte, Giovanni Quaranta, and Luca Salvati

Biography

Antonio Tomao graduated in "Forestry and Environmental Sciences" from the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) in 2011 and holds a PhD in "Landscape and environment design management and planning" from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2015. He is a fixed term researcher at the Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA) and adjunct professor of "urban and territorial planning" at the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Macerata. Since 2011, he has been a collaborator in research activities and subsequently a research fellow (in role until 2021) at the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems (DIBAF) of the University of Tuscia. He has carried out research periods abroad as a "visiting researcher" at the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) in Spain in 2015 and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), in Sweden, in 2019. He has a background and expertise in geomatics applications to environmental monitoring, urban forest risk assessment, urban planning, regional planning and green infrastructure planning.

Matteo Clemente