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A. Migliozzi et al. 2010. Land-use management and changes in Campania Region (Southern Italy)
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Since 2004 a series of legislative measures have outlined the regional legal instruments capable
of inverting this trend by offering an integrated strategy for the management and restoration of
the urban, rural and forest ecosystems,. Within the framework of the landascape restoration the
Piano Territorale Regionale (PTR) and the the Piano Forestale Generale (PFG) was
promulgated. Among the objectives of the latter are the protection, conservation and
enhancement of ecosystems, forest resources and hydro-geological aspects, and
theimprovement of the socio-economic conditions for the populations of the hill and mountains
areas.
The study of 10 state forests in the Campania Region was an applied research aimed to highlight
both local and regional landscape changes, for a more appropriate definition of the PFG
recently approved by the Regional Council of Campania.
In a first step the present work focuses on the change at landscape scale occurring in the last 50
years in Campania. Then, physiographic units were employed as a basis to describe the 10 state
forests of the Campania Region. The main problems of sustainable forest management and
agro-forestry in Campania are highlighted in relation to actions proposed by the PRT and PFG.
2. Methodology
Two different approaches were followed: At a landscape level, carriers responsible for the
transformation of Campania’s landscape agroforestry were identified, covering the last fifty
years. A land-systems map was used as background to focus on ten different forests,
highlighting their status and management perspectives.
2.1 Landscape changes towards 40 years
The analysis of land–use changes was carried out comparing, in GIS environment (ArcGIS -
ESRI inc.), the land-use map of ltaly (CNR TCI 1956-1960) with the Corine land cover map
(level IV – 2000 EU) integrated by the map of rural soil use, edited by the National Institute of
Agricultural Economics (INEA CEC-2001), which allowed a more accurate cartographic
restitution of farmland. Comparison was made with reference to physiographic areas (Lands
systems) characterised by a particular combination of environmental factors (climate,
morphology and soil) which can influence at the medium and long term sustainable use of
resources by the man.
Finally, the cartographic analysis data was integrated with socio-economic statistics and census
(a more accurate description of the used approach is available at www.risorsa.info). The
implementation of geographic database in GIS environment, has assumed the reference of all
cartographic documents to a single geographic projection system (Gauss Boaga for Italy – Zone
2).
2.2 State Forests characterisation
A detailed survey of forest types was conducted within the 10 State Forests of the Campania
Region (Figure 1).
State of art and bibliographic acquisition
All the existing bibliographic and cartographicinformation on flora and vegetation and forest
management plans related to the geographical areas where forests are located, was acquired and
archived according the guidelines for the sustainable management of forest and pastoral
resources in Protected Areas. To assess the constraints on the management of the habitats of
these areas, overlaps with the Site of Community Importance Special Protection Areas (SPAs)
and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), included in the network "Bioitaly-Nature 2000"
were considered.
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