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How Ecosystem Services Can Strengthen the Regeneration Policies for Monumental Olive Groves Destroyed by Xylella fastidiosa Bacterium in a Peri-Urban Area
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 8778, p 8778 (2021), Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 16
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The Apulian Region (Italy) is a socio-ecological system shaped by the millennial co-evolution between human actions and ecological processes. It is characterized by monumental olive groves protected from Regional Law 14/2007 for the cultural value of the landscape, currently threatened by the spread of a devastating phytopathogen, the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa. The aim of this paper is to apply landscape resilience analysis focusing on ecosystem services to understand the potential effects and trade-offs of regeneration policies in a peri-urban area characterized by monumental olive groves land cover. The study involved land-cover and land-use analysis, supported by a survey on the inhabitants and an ecosystem services analysis. The results showed a mismatch between the agroecosystem and the social and economic use linked to leisure or hospitality. The study area was defined as a peri-urban landscape characterized by tourist use. From the interviews of the users, the cultural heritage of olive groves seems linked to the presence of olive trees like a status quo of the landscape and olive oil productions. The culture aspect could thus be preserved by changing the type of olive trees. In addition, the analysis showed that the microclimate could be preserved and enhanced in terms of air temperature and thermal comfort, by replacing the olive trees with varieties resistant to Xylella, such as cv. Leccino. Therefore, regeneration policies that promote replacing dead olive groves with new olive trees could be efficient to stimulate social components of the landscape and improve the resilience of ecosystem services in peri-urban areas in the interest of the cultural heritage of the users and benefits that they provide. An ecosystem services analysis at a local scale could be a strategy for an integrated regenerate approach between land-use and land-cover with social, ecological, and economic evolutions vision orientated to a sustainable and desirable future.
- Subjects :
- Ecosystem service
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Geography, Planning and Development
TJ807-830
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
socio-ecological system
TD194-195
cultural value
Renewable energy sources
Ecosystem services
landscape
resilience
ecosystem services
microclimate
Landscape
GE1-350
Regeneration (ecology)
media_common
Resilience
Environmental effects of industries and plants
biology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Agroforestry
Microclimate
Cultural value
biology.organism_classification
Olive trees
Environmental sciences
Cultural heritage
Geography
Socio-ecological system
Psychological resilience
Xylella fastidiosa
Tourism
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 8778, p 8778 (2021), Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 16
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2ea05f6bc358eaba7cccd7d343dcd995