Environmental sustainability and global change : forests, agriculture and soils vis à vis human disturbance /

Offers an integrated approach to the socio-environmental dynamics of the ecological-economic nexus characteristic of Mediterranean landscapes. Evidencing the role of policies targeting sustainable development goals in Southern Europe, case studies from Italy, Spain, and Greece confirm the need of pl...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Salvati, Luca (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • A new "sustainability thinking" for land resources, economic growth, and global change in Southern Europe / Rosanna Salvia, Adele Sateriano, Luca Salvati
  • Sustainable development and integrated soil management: tools and keys for surveying the landscape evolution and degradation processes in Mediterranean mountainous regions / Jesus Rodrigo-Comino, Laura Cambronero, José Maria Senciales
  • Toward unsustainable grazing? The influence of topography on soil compaction at the farm scale in Iberian dehesas/montados / Jesús Barrena-González, Manuel Pulido Fernández and Anthony Gabourel-Landaverde
  • Natural resources, economic dynamics, and the renewed quest for 'rural development': a multistep statistical framework to complexity analysis of land quality / Nicholas Moustakas and Luca Salvati
  • Climate-driven dynamics in the Mediterranean agroecosystems: a pre-2007 economic crisis satellite-based sustainability analysis / Tiziana Simoniello, Maria Lanfredi, Caterina Samela
  • A brief outlook at the environmental consequences of rural development: Evidence from a Southern European country / Michele Postigliola, Claudio Petrillo, Luca Salvati
  • Environmental-economic dimensions of land-use transformations: exploring the Mediterranean rural sustainable development / Letizia Pace, Michele Galella, Luca Salvati
  • Spending for the environment: the long-term evolution of Italian agriculture from a (concise) historical perspective / Michele Postigliola, Claudio Petrillo, Luca Salvati
  • Contextual differences, contrasting trends? Sustainable development, economic performances, and divergence in land resource depletion / Luca Salvati, Clio Ciaschini, Ioannis Vardopoulos
  • Rural development and sustainable agriculture in advanced economies: socioeconomic realities-- environmental efficiency nexus / Luca Salvati, Rosanna Salvia, Giovanni Quaranta
  • Toward a 'Mediterranean model' of rural development? Land degradation, agricultural intensification, spatial planning, and the evolving socio-demographic pressure in Italy / Rosanna Salvia, Fabrizio Rossi, Luca Salvati
  • Mediterranean environments, rural development, and local communities: toward a zero-net degradation perspective? / Vito Imbrenda, Clio Ciaschini, Luca Salvati
  • Toward a socio-environmental disadvantaged region? the case of Western Macedonia, Greece / Dimitrios Antonoglou, Kostas Rontos and Luca Salvati
  • Rural development, economic growth, and the acceptance of immigrants: the quest for a comprehensive framework / Maria Vlachadi, Roido Mitoula and Luca Salvati
  • Demographic change and beliefs toward marriage: exploring the associated factors in urban and rural Greece before and during recession / Kostas Rontos, Georgios Kontogiannis, Dimitrios Antonoglou
  • In-between costs and benefits: the evolving paradigm of forest management planning / Piermaria Corona
  • Biodiversity loss, climate change, and Nature Restoration Law in the modern legal system of the European Union / Valerio Di Stefano, Salvatore D'Alessandro and Giorgia Di Domenico
  • Economic resilience and sustainability in the European Union: a comparative analysis of pre- and posteconomic crisis / Yannis E. Doukas, Napoleon Maravegias, Ioannis Vardopoulos
  • Sustainability, resilience, and disparities in regional value chains: reframing hegemonic concepts from the 'rural' perspective of Greek agro-food sector / Yannis E. Doukas, Luca Salvati and Pavlos Petidis
  • Policy and planning for "zero-net energy" real estate development in rural and exurban districts / Christos Georgiou, Marco Maialetti, Ioannis Vardopoulos
  • Regional competitiveness and tourism growth: a "latent" issue in rural development / Clio Ciaschini, Alessandro Muolo, Luca Salvati
  • In the fight against climate change: the importance of environmental, social, and governance initiatives / Konstantina Ragazou, Alexandros Garefalakis and Angeliki Samara
  • Ecological sustainability and socioeconomic resilience: forest management and natural conservation practices in a long-term planning vision / Adele Sateriano, Donato Scarpitta, Luca Salvati
  • Economic-environmental convergence and the quest for sustainable development / Luca Salvati, Clio Ciaschini, Adele Sateriano.