Prevention and reduction of forest fires is a crucial challenge. Forest fires are constantly incr...easing at a global level, particularly in areas close to settlements due to the steadily growing interface between vegetated land and settlements resulting from sub-urbanization processes.
The ecological network can be considered in different ways: as a strictly interrelated system of ...habitats, as parks and protected areas network, as a multi-purpose ecosystemic scenario, as a sequence of natural, rural and open landscapes.
Brief Introduction
This contribution aims at presenting the ongoing results of “Eco-welfare and Inter-municipal Governance: Soil as an Infrastructure for Regenerating Territories”, a multidisciplinary research co-funded by DIST Excellence Dept. of the Polytechnic University of Turin in cooperation with a range of institutional and academic organizations. The goal of the research is to increase the understanding of the integration of ecosystem services’ (ES) knowledge and methodologies within urban and territorial planning processes.
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A brief introduction of the EU funded project "Routes des vignobles alpins" [alpine vineyards' route], premises and methodology. Issues and challenges for preserving traditional rural landscapes, in the framework of international policies, but also by site specific approach.
Eddy covariance data were collected at a station located on a slope characterised by a very common and increasing land cover in the Alpine region, that is, the abandoned pasture. Three diurnal growing season (2014, 2016 and 2017) were considered. The site is located at 1730 m asl in Cogne (Valle d’Aosta, Italy). The sensible and latent heat fluxes, as well as the carbon dioxide flux, were estimated. The in-situ fluxes and their quality were examined to assess whether an acceptable amount of good quality data was collected, and then proposing a simple step by step quality control procedure.
The Alps are very sensitive to climate and land cover changes. In the past years, a growing interest towards understanding the water and carbon exchanges in the mountains led to an increasing number of studies. However, the complexity of these environments determines many uncertainties from a methodological and ecological point of view. Therefore, there is a need to compute and compare flux data collected at different, high-altitude and complex sites. Such studies will improve the knowledge about the impact of local morphology on measurements.