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CAPITOLO III - Paesaggi d’Italia
Figura 3 – Percentage of the Italian
peninsula occupied by the different
land-use/land-cover classes.
Figura 4 – Percentage of the Italian
macro-regions occupied by
the different land-use/land-cover
classes. A= Alps; B= Apennines;
C=Po river plain; D=coastal areas;
E=Sicily; F=Sardinia.
TIFICIAL. The more “natural” land-use/land-cover classes (e.g., FOREST and PASTURE) were
found mostly in the mountain areas, where most of the changes occurred.
Comparing MLC1960 and CLC1990, AGRICULTURE, FOREST, BARREN, ARTIFICIAL, and WA-
TER were the classes that showed the greater stability (all of them remained unchanged for more
than 50% of their extent; Tab. 1); all other classes were stable for less than 35%. Notable are
the changes occurred to PASTURE, with high percentage of change towards AGRICULTURE,
HETEROGENEOUS and FOREST in particular, and to HETEROGENEOUS, with high percentage
of changes towards AGRICULTURE and FOREST.
Comparing CLC1990 and CLC2000, all land-use/land-cover classes remained stable for more
than 56% of their extent (Tab. 2). The most important changes occurred to PASTURE (mainly