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Dr. Raffaele Pelorosso
Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), Italy, Tuscia University, 01100 Viterbo VT, Italy

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0 Urban modeling
0 Urban regeneration and performance-based planning
0 Urban storm water and climate regulation by green and grey infrastructure
0 Low-entropy systems

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Conference paper
Published: 11 May 2021 in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
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Green roofs can create more resilient hybrid infrastructures for the sustainable management of urban stormwater. Their permeation in urban design and planning practice depends on the roof capability in supplying multiple ecosystem services that are mainly affected by water availability and management. The blue-green roof is an innovative solution coupling a water storage below the green roof able to gather infiltrated rainfall and slowly release it out of the system. Infiltrated rainfall is then reused by green roof vegetation by capillary irrigation allowing plants survival in the dry period, increasing evapotranspiration and producing a cooling effect. The roof storage allows reducing flooding risk and overload of drainage system through storing and gradually releasing of water. This paper presents a simulation of different scenarios of green and blue-green roof in Viterbo (Central Italy) during critical rainfall. Results demonstrate (a) the almost double efficiency of the blue-green roof in reducing runoff with respect to the traditional green roof and (b) the benefits of an increased storage capacity of the blue-green roof in terms of runoff control. Future research lines for blue-green roof systems are reported and some urban planning considerations are suggested for the study area.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Andrea Petroselli; Ciro Apollonio; Salvatore Grimaldi. Blue-Green Roofs: Hydrological Evaluation of a Case Study in Viterbo, Central Italy. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 3 -13.

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Raffaele Pelorosso, Andrea Petroselli, Ciro Apollonio, Salvatore Grimaldi. Blue-Green Roofs: Hydrological Evaluation of a Case Study in Viterbo, Central Italy. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():3-13.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Andrea Petroselli; Ciro Apollonio; Salvatore Grimaldi. 2021. "Blue-Green Roofs: Hydrological Evaluation of a Case Study in Viterbo, Central Italy." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 3-13.

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Published: 11 May 2021 in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
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Urban Green Space (GS) provide fundamental functions for socio-ecological urban systems. GS help to maintain the physical and mental health of citizens, facilitating communication, sport and physical activities and the contact with Nature. Moreover, they are primary reserve for biodiversity in cities and support several regulating (e.g. water cycle, climate mitigation) and cultural ecosystem services. Recently, COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the beneficial role of GS for citizens. A key aspect for GS effectiveness is its accessibility for city residents. Full accessible GS are public spaces available for all to use free of charge and without time restrictions. Anyway, the accessibility varies for different GS (e.g. private or public) and for different people movement capabilities (e.g. elderly or young). Thus, planning the spatial distribution of different GS is more and more fundamental for the definition of sustainable, resilient, safe and fair urban systems. In this work, a GIS-based accessibility assessment of GS is presented for the city of Viterbo, central Italy. A score of accessibility by different users of GS (total residents, children, elderly people) is calculated on the road network and some planning considerations are presented. The study case is exemplificative for historical town having limited open spaces within the ancient city wall and relevant pressure factors acting on it.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Daniele La Rosa; Stefano Floris; Nicola Cerino. Planning Accessible Urban Green Infrastructure for Healthy and Fair Historical Towns: The Study Case of Viterbo, Central Italy. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 43 -51.

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Raffaele Pelorosso, Daniele La Rosa, Stefano Floris, Nicola Cerino. Planning Accessible Urban Green Infrastructure for Healthy and Fair Historical Towns: The Study Case of Viterbo, Central Italy. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():43-51.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Daniele La Rosa; Stefano Floris; Nicola Cerino. 2021. "Planning Accessible Urban Green Infrastructure for Healthy and Fair Historical Towns: The Study Case of Viterbo, Central Italy." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 43-51.

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Published: 11 May 2021 in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
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In the last decades human activities enhanced significant morphological riverbeds, banks and floodplain changes causing negative impacts on ecosystems and populations. In this scenario, harmonizing hydrogeological defence interventions in areas with high environmental value may appear a difficult challenge to win, even more if the same areas are densely populated. This is the case of the Ulse river basin in the Peschici Municipality, located in an area with a very high landscape-environmental value, heavily anthropized, even in the riverbanks near the basin outlet. There, the river rod is arranged with a concrete conglomerate coating according the design criteria of the 70’s. It is evident that the hydraulic risk mitigation taking into account the land use and critical metereological events, congruent with the current Flood Directive, would have a very significant impact on the environment. In this work, in order to combine risk mitigation with a positive effect on urban ecosystems, flood lamination basins have been designed mainly using bioengineering techniques. The proposed nature-based approach at basin scale is in line with the European Parliament Directive 2007/60/EC of 23rd October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks. The design was performed through hydraulic modelling carried out using 1D-2D software. Therefore, this study presents a green and nature-based approach to reduce losses related to potential flood events in urban areas, where the traditional engineering techniques, usually, have some constraints related to economic costs, planning restrictions and environmental impacts.

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Ciro Apollonio; Andrea Petroselli; Raffaele Pelorosso; Salvatore Grimaldi; Crescenzo Luca Frontuto; Giovanni Russo; Maria Di Modugno; Ciro Miroballo; Marco Muciaccia. The Use of Lamination Basins for Mitigation of the Urban Flooding Risk: The Case Study of Peschici. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 491 -500.

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Ciro Apollonio, Andrea Petroselli, Raffaele Pelorosso, Salvatore Grimaldi, Crescenzo Luca Frontuto, Giovanni Russo, Maria Di Modugno, Ciro Miroballo, Marco Muciaccia. The Use of Lamination Basins for Mitigation of the Urban Flooding Risk: The Case Study of Peschici. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():491-500.

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Ciro Apollonio; Andrea Petroselli; Raffaele Pelorosso; Salvatore Grimaldi; Crescenzo Luca Frontuto; Giovanni Russo; Maria Di Modugno; Ciro Miroballo; Marco Muciaccia. 2021. "The Use of Lamination Basins for Mitigation of the Urban Flooding Risk: The Case Study of Peschici." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 491-500.

Journal article
Published: 24 March 2021 in Remote Sensing
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Land use/land cover (LULC) maps are a key input in environmental evaluations for the sustainable planning and management of socio-ecological systems. While the impact of map spatial resolution on environmental assessments has been evaluated by several studies, the effect of thematic resolution (the level of detail of LU/LC typologies) is discordant and still poorly investigated. In this paper, four scenarios of thematic resolutions, corresponding to the four levels of the CORINE classification scheme, have been compared in a real case study of landscape connectivity assessment, a major aspect for the biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision. The PANDORA model has been employed to investigate the effects of LULC thematic resolution on Bio-Energy Landscape Connectivity (BELC) at the scale of the whole system, landscape units, and single land cover patches, also in terms of ecosystem services. The results show different types of impacts on landscape connectivity due to the changed spatial pattern of the LULC classes across the four thematic resolution scenarios. Moreover, the main priority areas for conservation objectives and future sustainable urban expansion have been identified. Finally, several indications are given for supporting practitioners and researchers faced with thematic resolution issues in environmental assessment and land use planning.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Ciro Apollonio; Duccio Rocchini; Andrea Petroselli. Effects of Land Use-Land Cover Thematic Resolution on Environmental Evaluations. Remote Sensing 2021, 13, 1232 .

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Raffaele Pelorosso, Ciro Apollonio, Duccio Rocchini, Andrea Petroselli. Effects of Land Use-Land Cover Thematic Resolution on Environmental Evaluations. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13 (7):1232.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Ciro Apollonio; Duccio Rocchini; Andrea Petroselli. 2021. "Effects of Land Use-Land Cover Thematic Resolution on Environmental Evaluations." Remote Sensing 13, no. 7: 1232.

Review
Published: 05 October 2019 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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New planning approaches based on performance measures of the urban system are emerging to face the current challenges to the sustainability of cities. Through modelling, planners can understand the general behavior of the system and, consequently, decide the strategic allocation of land uses and human activities with respect to performances of the considered processes and the socio-ecological and economic uncertainties. Thus, model-based planning approaches present strong similarities with the performance-based planning (PBP) approaches and modelling can represent a valuable tool for the evolution and expansion of PBP. In this paper, a systematic review has explored a) the contribution of modelling within PBP approaches in moving cities towards sustainability; b) the applicability for modeling in PBP in urban contexts. Twelve operational examples of model-based urban planning and PBP have been identified in energy, water infrastructure, land use and ecological planning areas. A scoring system for potential model applicability in urban planning was tested in the sampled case studies. Moreover, several critical elements in the relation between modeling approaches and PBP have been identified. Finally, a discussion on the system performance concept as a new urban planning paradigm has been proposed.

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Raffaele Pelorosso. Modeling and urban planning: A systematic review of performance-based approaches. Sustainable Cities and Society 2019, 52, 101867 .

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Raffaele Pelorosso. Modeling and urban planning: A systematic review of performance-based approaches. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2019; 52 ():101867.

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Raffaele Pelorosso. 2019. "Modeling and urban planning: A systematic review of performance-based approaches." Sustainable Cities and Society 52, no. : 101867.

Journal article
Published: 16 August 2018 in Sustainability
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The conservation of perceived scenery of traditional extensive and diversified landscapes is a valuable aim for reaching sustainable rural development. Considering the financial budget assigned and the application rules of European Union agricultural policy (Common Agricultural Policy—CAP), the relationship between perceived landscape benefits and CAP first pillar payments is an interesting aspect to analyze. In this study, a cost-benefit analysis has been carried out in a rural area of Central Italy that represents typical Italian conditions of hilly territories. Greening payment, a mechanism aimed to boost public goods, including landscapes and their ecological functionality, was selected as a proxy for policy cost of preserving traditional extensive landscapes. The benefits of greening have been evaluated through the analysis of the people’s willingness to pay for the maintenance of extensive and diversified landscapes. The analysis conducted does not explicitly consider the full range of environmental benefits determined by greening, even if some interviewees may have perceived them in addition to the visual perception of the rural landscape. The present study can contribute to the debate on the agricultural policy post-2020, especially for a future definition of long-lasting and cost-effective sustainable interventions in hilly and extensive rural landscapes.

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Raffaele Cortignani; Federica Gobattoni; Raffaele Pelorosso; Maria Nicolina Ripa. Green Payment and Perceived Rural Landscape Quality: A Cost-Benefit Analysis in Central Italy. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2910 .

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Raffaele Cortignani, Federica Gobattoni, Raffaele Pelorosso, Maria Nicolina Ripa. Green Payment and Perceived Rural Landscape Quality: A Cost-Benefit Analysis in Central Italy. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (8):2910.

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Raffaele Cortignani; Federica Gobattoni; Raffaele Pelorosso; Maria Nicolina Ripa. 2018. "Green Payment and Perceived Rural Landscape Quality: A Cost-Benefit Analysis in Central Italy." Sustainability 10, no. 8: 2910.

Chapter
Published: 13 June 2018 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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This paper presents the theory behind the concept of low-entropy cities based on the second law of thermodynamics. This concept aims to provide a bridge among different approaches on city sustainability studies, highlighting the links between natural processes and the socio-ecological complexity of urban systems. A practical low-entropy application is then proposed for urban storm water management, examining the planning of nature-based solutions with the support of a modelling approach. A further novelty of this work is the attempt to combine entropy with resilience assessment for urban green infrastructure planning.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Federica Gobattoni; Antonio Leone. Reducing Urban Entropy Employing Nature-Based Solutions: The Case of Urban Storm Water Management. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2018, 37 -48.

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Raffaele Pelorosso, Federica Gobattoni, Antonio Leone. Reducing Urban Entropy Employing Nature-Based Solutions: The Case of Urban Storm Water Management. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2018; ():37-48.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Federica Gobattoni; Antonio Leone. 2018. "Reducing Urban Entropy Employing Nature-Based Solutions: The Case of Urban Storm Water Management." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 37-48.

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Published: 13 June 2018 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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Despite numerous studies on urban resilience, few practical applications of spatial explicit and quantitative resilience indicators in green infrastructure planning are present in literature. This paper presents a methodological framework to assess the hydrological resilience of an urban context employing modelling approach. The proposed resilience index is then used to support the definition of nature-based and engineered solutions aimed to increase resilience to floods as well as to enhance the green infrastructure multi-functionality in a densely populated district of Bari. The paper aims then to contribute to the introduction of resilience assessment and sustainable storm water management in practice urban planning in a context of climate adaptation plans.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Federica Gobattoni; Antonio Leone. Increasing Hydrological Resilience Employing Nature-Based Solutions: A Modelling Approach to Support Spatial Planning. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2018, 71 -82.

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Raffaele Pelorosso, Federica Gobattoni, Antonio Leone. Increasing Hydrological Resilience Employing Nature-Based Solutions: A Modelling Approach to Support Spatial Planning. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2018; ():71-82.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Federica Gobattoni; Antonio Leone. 2018. "Increasing Hydrological Resilience Employing Nature-Based Solutions: A Modelling Approach to Support Spatial Planning." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 71-82.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2017 in Landscape and Urban Planning
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Raffaele Pelorosso; F. Gobattoni; Antonio Leone. The low-entropy city: A thermodynamic approach to reconnect urban systems with nature. Landscape and Urban Planning 2017, 168, 22 -30.

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Raffaele Pelorosso, F. Gobattoni, Antonio Leone. The low-entropy city: A thermodynamic approach to reconnect urban systems with nature. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2017; 168 ():22-30.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; F. Gobattoni; Antonio Leone. 2017. "The low-entropy city: A thermodynamic approach to reconnect urban systems with nature." Landscape and Urban Planning 168, no. : 22-30.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2017 in Ecosystem Services
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Raffaele Pelorosso; Federica Gobattoni; Francesco Geri; Antonio Leone. PANDORA 3.0 plugin: A new biodiversity ecosystem service assessment tool for urban green infrastructure connectivity planning. Ecosystem Services 2017, 26, 476 -482.

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Raffaele Pelorosso, Federica Gobattoni, Francesco Geri, Antonio Leone. PANDORA 3.0 plugin: A new biodiversity ecosystem service assessment tool for urban green infrastructure connectivity planning. Ecosystem Services. 2017; 26 ():476-482.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Federica Gobattoni; Francesco Geri; Antonio Leone. 2017. "PANDORA 3.0 plugin: A new biodiversity ecosystem service assessment tool for urban green infrastructure connectivity planning." Ecosystem Services 26, no. : 476-482.

Book chapter
Published: 06 May 2016 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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The world’s population is growing constantly and, more importantly, the need for raw materials and food products is growing quickly, as a result of the western development model. The energy-consuming (energivorous) and consumerist nature of this model is being consolidated globally, ignoring both the issue of resource limitations, and the medium-long term environmental consequences (e.g. climate change, water pollution). This development model, in order to maintain its internal integrity and further develop (often at increasing rates of growth), needs to import energy and materials from the external environment and to produce waste and disorder (entropy) in an inexorable slide toward thermodynamic equilibrium. Sustainable development should focus on contrasting these processes as far as possible, and on developing suitable planning praxes. This paper aims to show how to achieve sustainable land-use through local resource evaluation, overturning the “linear” logic of acquisition-consumption-disposal of wastes, in search of circular processes, capable of reducing entropy growth in a social-ecological system. An analysis of the exergetic availabilities of the landscape mosaic demonstrates great potential for exploiting energy supplies from local and renewable sources, thus lessening the system’s overall impact on the global environment.

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Antonio Leone; Federica Gobattoni; Raffaele Pelorosso. Energy Supply, Thermodynamics and Territorial Processes as a New Paradigm of Sustainability in Planning Science and Practice. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2016, 83 -101.

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Antonio Leone, Federica Gobattoni, Raffaele Pelorosso. Energy Supply, Thermodynamics and Territorial Processes as a New Paradigm of Sustainability in Planning Science and Practice. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2016; ():83-101.

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Antonio Leone; Federica Gobattoni; Raffaele Pelorosso. 2016. "Energy Supply, Thermodynamics and Territorial Processes as a New Paradigm of Sustainability in Planning Science and Practice." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 83-101.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2015 in Land Use Policy
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Federica Gobattoni; Raffaele Pelorosso; Antonio Leone; Maria Nicolina Ripa. Sustainable rural development: The role of traditional activities in Central Italy. Land Use Policy 2015, 48, 412 -427.

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Federica Gobattoni, Raffaele Pelorosso, Antonio Leone, Maria Nicolina Ripa. Sustainable rural development: The role of traditional activities in Central Italy. Land Use Policy. 2015; 48 ():412-427.

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Federica Gobattoni; Raffaele Pelorosso; Antonio Leone; Maria Nicolina Ripa. 2015. "Sustainable rural development: The role of traditional activities in Central Italy." Land Use Policy 48, no. : 412-427.

Journal article
Published: 13 February 2015 in Ecological Indicators
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Landscape connectivity is of paramount importance not only in maintaining both functionality and resilience of social-ecological systems, but also in providing Ecosystem Services (ESs). Despite recent efforts, several issues still need to be faced to fully integrate ESs evaluation relating to landscape connectivity into effective plans and environmental assessment procedures. Choosing an appropriate scale of analysis is one of the most problematic topics, since it can profoundly affect the evaluation of single patch contribution to global connectivity. Moreover, the effect of different scales on ESs assessment based on spatial modelling has not yet been investigated. In this paper, an innovative approach to the assessment of Bio-Energy Landscape Connectivity (BELC) and related ESs for Biodiversity conservation, is presented, based on the PANDORA 3.0 landscape evolution model. A new index (dMtot) for the evaluation of each patch's contribution to global BELC is proposed and employed to build a new formulation for the assessment of ESs in monetary terms. A set of Non Urbanized Areas (NUAs) is therefore analyzed in the Metropolitan area of Bari (Southern Italy) across three planning scales commonly adopted in planning practice. The results bring to light the sensitivity of evaluation to the choice of scale, underlining the need to consider a higher level of analysis when local plans are drawn up for land use decision making. A thorough evaluation of this larger extension could therefore require more resources. As a result, modelling approaches that are less data and time consuming would become even more necessary. In this view, the PANDORA 3.0 model could provide a valid and reliable support, since it uses data that are usually available to land managers (e.g. land cover/land use maps, soil maps, Digital Elevation Models). Moreover, it could also be employed to assess land use scenarios at different scales relatively quickly. Limits of the current approaches and research challenges are then discussed. The final goal of the article is to provide an additional tool, which will allow ESs and Landscape Ecology concepts to be integrated not only into assessment procedures (e.g. EIA, SEA) but also into landscape and urban planning practice.

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R. Pelorosso; F. Gobattoni; F. Geri; R. Monaco; A. Leone. Evaluation of Ecosystem Services related to Bio-Energy Landscape Connectivity (BELC) for land use decision making across different planning scales. Ecological Indicators 2015, 61, 114 -129.

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R. Pelorosso, F. Gobattoni, F. Geri, R. Monaco, A. Leone. Evaluation of Ecosystem Services related to Bio-Energy Landscape Connectivity (BELC) for land use decision making across different planning scales. Ecological Indicators. 2015; 61 ():114-129.

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R. Pelorosso; F. Gobattoni; F. Geri; R. Monaco; A. Leone. 2015. "Evaluation of Ecosystem Services related to Bio-Energy Landscape Connectivity (BELC) for land use decision making across different planning scales." Ecological Indicators 61, no. : 114-129.

Journal article
Published: 14 May 2014 in Acta Applicandae Mathematicae
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A new mathematical model capable to provide a detailed evaluation of the ecological state of an environmental system is here presented. The mathematical model consists in a set of ordinary differential equations. The state variable of the system is the so-called Biological Territorial Capacity. The analysis is performed at the scale of each biotope that is the patch of land cover with homogeneous vegetation. Since the model consists in a very large number of ODE, in order to implement numerical computations with a fast algorithm, an approximated solution procedure is proposed. Finally a study case with comparisons between different designs and plans of the territory under investigation is performed.

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Federica Gobattoni; Maria Groppi; Roberto Monaco; Raffaele Pelorosso. New Developments and Results for Mathematical Models in Environment Evaluations. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 2014, 132, 321 -331.

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Federica Gobattoni, Maria Groppi, Roberto Monaco, Raffaele Pelorosso. New Developments and Results for Mathematical Models in Environment Evaluations. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae. 2014; 132 (1):321-331.

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Federica Gobattoni; Maria Groppi; Roberto Monaco; Raffaele Pelorosso. 2014. "New Developments and Results for Mathematical Models in Environment Evaluations." Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 132, no. 1: 321-331.

Journal article
Published: 08 September 2013 in Journal of Agricultural Engineering
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Aerial photos represent the main existent database providing evidence of landscape changes with high detail. The analysis of land cover changes plays a key role in understanding a great variety of phenomena in several research fields. Landscapes are made by society and reflect the changing society and attitude towards the environment. The reorientation of farming system, the practical results of planning processes, the rate and magnitude of the changes in the landscape are some of the most important factors relating to the evolution of our landscapes and are very helpful for the understanding of evolution processes and consequently for the design of landscape-orientated policies. Pressures upon the landscape and values of our landscapes can be defined according to their traditional characteristics; traditional landscapes can be defined as those landscapes having a distinct and recognizable structure, which reflect relations between the composing elements and have a significance for natural, cultural or aesthetical values. In most cases, such landscapes evolved slowly and took centuries to form their values. Sometimes land changes happen fast and spread in vast areas so that some agricultural or natural landscapes, widely perceived as traditional, have very recent origin. In this paper, some preliminary observation and case-studies performed on a set of historical photos are dealt with. In 1935, the Italian Land Register Department commissioned SARA company to survey Viterbo province between 1935-1938 through aerial photographs. During the survey, 5,000 photographs on glass plates were taken at a very low altitude, featuring a very high resolution. Thus, they represents a valuable source of information for documenting past and present land-use practices, local cultural heritage and changes in the landscape. Processing this set of historical photos has started, aimed to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse the 1935-1938 landscape patterns and their role in the development of nowadays landscapes.

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Maria Nicolina Ripa; Francesco Ciapanna; Goffredo Filibeck; Federica Gobattoni; Antonio Leone; Raffaele Pelorosso; Matteo Piccinno; Carlo Maria Rossi; Fabio Recanatesi. Evolution of some Mediterranean landscapes of Central Italy from historical aerial photographs. Journal of Agricultural Engineering 2013, 44, 1 .

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Maria Nicolina Ripa, Francesco Ciapanna, Goffredo Filibeck, Federica Gobattoni, Antonio Leone, Raffaele Pelorosso, Matteo Piccinno, Carlo Maria Rossi, Fabio Recanatesi. Evolution of some Mediterranean landscapes of Central Italy from historical aerial photographs. Journal of Agricultural Engineering. 2013; 44 (2):1.

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Maria Nicolina Ripa; Francesco Ciapanna; Goffredo Filibeck; Federica Gobattoni; Antonio Leone; Raffaele Pelorosso; Matteo Piccinno; Carlo Maria Rossi; Fabio Recanatesi. 2013. "Evolution of some Mediterranean landscapes of Central Italy from historical aerial photographs." Journal of Agricultural Engineering 44, no. 2: 1.

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Published: 06 September 2013 in Journal of Agricultural Engineering
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Aerial photos represent the main existent database providing evidence of landscape changes with high detail. The analysis of land cover changes plays a key role in understanding a great variety of phenomena in several research fields. Landscapes are made by society and reflect the changing society and attitude towards the environment. The reorientation of farming system, the practical results of planning processes, the rate and magnitude of the changes in the landscape are some of the most important factors relating to the evolution of our landscapes and are very helpful for the understanding of evolution processes and consequently for the design of landscape-orientated policies. Pressures upon the landscape and values of our landscapes can be defined according to their traditional characteristics; traditional landscapes can be defined as those landscapes having a distinct and recognizable structure, which reflect relations between the composing elements and have a significance for natural, cultural or aesthetical values. In most cases, such landscapes evolved slowly and took centuries to form their values. Sometimes land changes happen fast and spread in vast areas so that some agricultural or natural landscapes, widely perceived as traditional, have very recent origin. In this paper, some preliminary observation and case-studies performed on a set of historical photos are dealt with. In 1935, the Italian Land Register Department commissioned SARA company to survey Viterbo province between 1935-1938 through aerial photographs. During the survey, 5,000 photographs on glass plates were taken at a very low altitude, featuring a very high resolution. Thus, they represents a valuable source of information for documenting past and present land-use practices, local cultural heritage and changes in the landscape. Processing this set of historical photos has started, aimed to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse the 1935-1938 landscape patterns and their role in the development of nowadays landscapes.

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Maria Nicolina Ripa; Francesco Ciapanna; Goffredo Filibeck; Federica Gobattoni; Antonio Leone; Raffaele Pelorosso; Matteo Piccinno; Carlo Maria Rossi; Fabio Recanatesi. Evolution of some Mediterranean landscapes of Central Italy from historical aerial photographs. Journal of Agricultural Engineering 2013, 44, 1 .

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Maria Nicolina Ripa, Francesco Ciapanna, Goffredo Filibeck, Federica Gobattoni, Antonio Leone, Raffaele Pelorosso, Matteo Piccinno, Carlo Maria Rossi, Fabio Recanatesi. Evolution of some Mediterranean landscapes of Central Italy from historical aerial photographs. Journal of Agricultural Engineering. 2013; 44 (2):1.

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Maria Nicolina Ripa; Francesco Ciapanna; Goffredo Filibeck; Federica Gobattoni; Antonio Leone; Raffaele Pelorosso; Matteo Piccinno; Carlo Maria Rossi; Fabio Recanatesi. 2013. "Evolution of some Mediterranean landscapes of Central Italy from historical aerial photographs." Journal of Agricultural Engineering 44, no. 2: 1.

Journal article
Published: 04 December 2012 in Acta Applicandae Mathematicae
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In the present paper a review of some mathematical models for the ecological evaluation of environmental systems is considered. Moreover a new model, capable to furnish more detailed information at the level of landscape units, is proposed. Numerical tests are then performed for a case study in the province of Viterbo (central Italy).

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Federica Gobattoni; Giuliana Lauro; Roberto Monaco; Raffaele Pelorosso. Mathematical Models in Landscape Ecology: Stability Analysis and Numerical Tests. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 2012, 125, 173 -192.

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Federica Gobattoni, Giuliana Lauro, Roberto Monaco, Raffaele Pelorosso. Mathematical Models in Landscape Ecology: Stability Analysis and Numerical Tests. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae. 2012; 125 (1):173-192.

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Federica Gobattoni; Giuliana Lauro; Roberto Monaco; Raffaele Pelorosso. 2012. "Mathematical Models in Landscape Ecology: Stability Analysis and Numerical Tests." Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 125, no. 1: 173-192.

Journal article
Published: 30 December 2011 in Landscape and Urban Planning
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The need for suitable planning strategies to reduce landscape fragmentation favoring energy and matter fluxes between ecosystems and preserving biodiversity, is a key issue of nature conservation and sustainable development. Human interventions may represent obstacles to such fluxes between ecosystems and they may affect landscape evolution and equilibrium conditions in terms of biodiversity reduction, accelerated erosion phenomena, hydrological instability and flood events that are well recognized consequences of anthropic impact. In this work an innovative procedure, called PANDORA, Procedure for mAthematical aNalysis of lanDscape evOlution and equilibRium scenarios Assessment, is presented to assess the effects of different planning strategies on final possible equilibrium states that are energetically stable. It provides a tool for the evaluation of landscape functionality and its resilience. PANDORA, linking together thermodynamic concepts, mathematical equilibrium, metabolic theory and landscape metrics, allows to model landscape evolution in time under the impact of external constraints and giving a unique response from it in terms of energy. An application of PANDORA is here proposed as a Decision Support System for choosing among possible urban planning strategies in a Mediterranean watershed of Central Italy. PANDORA model, allows to evaluate an analytical solution of landscape time-evolution problem and to study its stability depending on parameters obtained from GIS data, available, usually, by land managers. Such a model aims to provide a large applicability tool for “what if” scenarios evaluation in territorial planning as afforestation, deforestation, urban and road network development.

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Federica Gobattoni; Raffaele Pelorosso; Giuliana Lauro; Antonio Leone; Roberto Monaco. A procedure for mathematical analysis of landscape evolution and equilibrium scenarios assessment. Landscape and Urban Planning 2011, 103, 289 -302.

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Federica Gobattoni, Raffaele Pelorosso, Giuliana Lauro, Antonio Leone, Roberto Monaco. A procedure for mathematical analysis of landscape evolution and equilibrium scenarios assessment. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2011; 103 (3-4):289-302.

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Federica Gobattoni; Raffaele Pelorosso; Giuliana Lauro; Antonio Leone; Roberto Monaco. 2011. "A procedure for mathematical analysis of landscape evolution and equilibrium scenarios assessment." Landscape and Urban Planning 103, no. 3-4: 289-302.

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Published: 30 December 2011 in Landscape and Urban Planning
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Raffaele Pelorosso; Stefano Della Chiesa; Ulrike Tappeiner; Antonio Leone; Duccio Rocchini. Stability analysis for defining management strategies in abandoned mountain landscapes of the Mediterranean basin. Landscape and Urban Planning 2011, 103, 335 -346.

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Raffaele Pelorosso, Stefano Della Chiesa, Ulrike Tappeiner, Antonio Leone, Duccio Rocchini. Stability analysis for defining management strategies in abandoned mountain landscapes of the Mediterranean basin. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2011; 103 (3-4):335-346.

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Raffaele Pelorosso; Stefano Della Chiesa; Ulrike Tappeiner; Antonio Leone; Duccio Rocchini. 2011. "Stability analysis for defining management strategies in abandoned mountain landscapes of the Mediterranean basin." Landscape and Urban Planning 103, no. 3-4: 335-346.

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Published: 01 November 2010 in Geospatial Health
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Buffalo livestock plays a central role in the regional economy in some areas of southern Italy, through the production of mozzarella cheese. With about 250,000 heads per utilizable agricultural area (equal to 107,400 ha), livestock husbandry is intensive. An important issue with regard to high animal density is manure management, an activity determined by cost optimization and the laws governing environmental sustainability. According to community, national and international rules (European Directive 91/676, Italian rules 152/99 and 258/00), nitrate leakage is considered a pollution indicator related to breeding activities and must be kept within limits. Simulation studies were carried out in the Italian province of Caserta to evaluate the impact of leakage on groundwater. Manure was also collected from 35 livestock farms and the nitrogen content measured in the laboratory. The results showed an average content of 2 kg/m3 of nitrogen, corresponding to 50 kg per animal and year, while the nitrate concentrations in the groundwater were found to be lower than those predicted by simulation. The nitrogen content found in buffalo manure <60% of the standard content produced by the bovine species (on average 83 kg nitrogen per adult animal per year). The fact that the bovine species is used as the standard reference for legislation on nitrogen production explains the inconsistency observed between the impact of buffalo livestock on the environment predicted by simulation and the nitrate concentration measured in the groundwater. Although it would be out of line with current regulations, it would theoretically be possible to increase the buffalo load on the territory without environmentally negative effects. Therefore, in this context, the common referral points, i.e. the American Midwest Point Service and others usually consulted for the assessment of livestock impact in terms of nutritional excretion and the risk of pollution for the environment, should be revisited.

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Roberta Infascelli; Salvatore Faugno; Stefania Pindozzi; Raffaele Pelorosso; Lorenzo Boccia. The environmental impact of buffalo manure in areas specialized in mozzarella production, southern Italy. Geospatial Health 2010, 5, 131 .

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Roberta Infascelli, Salvatore Faugno, Stefania Pindozzi, Raffaele Pelorosso, Lorenzo Boccia. The environmental impact of buffalo manure in areas specialized in mozzarella production, southern Italy. Geospatial Health. 2010; 5 (1):131.

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Roberta Infascelli; Salvatore Faugno; Stefania Pindozzi; Raffaele Pelorosso; Lorenzo Boccia. 2010. "The environmental impact of buffalo manure in areas specialized in mozzarella production, southern Italy." Geospatial Health 5, no. 1: 131.