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ICCSA 2015: Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015 pp 301–316Cite as

The Multidimensional Assessment of Land Take and Soil Sealing

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In 2006 European Commission stated that soil, fairly recognisable as an ecosystem structure, can be considered essentially as a non-renewable resource, thus triggering both studies for the assessment of land take phenomenon and actions for its mitigation and reduction. In last two decades, a deeper and ecosystem approach to land-use policies targeted to the sustainable development enabled a closer understanding of the complexity of urban dynamics leading to the necessity of multidimensional and integrated approaches for the assessment of the use of resources. The paper presents a multi-dimensional approach to evaluate the phenomenon of land take and soil sealing implemented on a sample of municipalities in Apulia Region, in Southern Italy. The construction of a composite indicator for comparative qualitative and quantitative measurement of land take and soil sealing among the municipalities is aimed at a better evaluation of future urbanisation scenarios and at a monitoring process of urban growth.

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  1. Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, via Forno Vecchio 36, Naples, Italy

    Raffaele Attardi, Maria Cerreta & Valentina Sannicandro

  2. MITO Lab, Department DICAR, Technical University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo M. Torre

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    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Canaanland, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  5. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  6. Polytechnic University, Bari, Italy

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  7. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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  8. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Attardi, R., Cerreta, M., Sannicandro, V., Torre, C.M. (2015). The Multidimensional Assessment of Land Take and Soil Sealing. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015. ICCSA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21470-2_21

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