Determinants of land take at the regional scale: a study concerning Sardinia (Italy)

Zoppi, Corrado; Lai, Sabrina

doi:10.1016/J.EIAR.2015.06.002

Title: Determinants of land take at the regional scale: a study concerning Sardinia (Italy)

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In its “Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe” (Communication COM(2011) 571 of 20 September 2011), the European Commission (EC) established an ambitious goal for the European Union (EU), that of achieving no land take by 2050; towards this aim, a key milestone for the year 2020 was set, by stating that European policies in the programming period 2014–2020 ought to consider both their direct and their indirect impacts on land use in the EU. Within this framework, this paper builds upon the findings of a previous paper (Zoppi and Lai, 2014), in which we estimated the magnitude of land take over a short period of time (2003–2008) in Sardinia, an Italian NUTS2 region, and we assessed whether and how land take is related to a set of variables that are regarded as important determinants in the literature, such as parcel size, accessibility, and proximity to main cities and towns, to the coastline, or to protected areas. In this paper we study the land-taking process taking Sardinia as a case study, in two larger time periods, 1960–1990 and 1990–2008. We assess if, and to what extent, these factors reveal similar, or different, effects in the two periods, and try to identifymore »« less

Authors:: Zoppi, Corrado; Lai, Sabrina

Publication Date:: Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2015

OSTI Identifier:: 22479756

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 55; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0195-9255

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; FOREIGN POLICY; ITALY; LAND USE; NATURE RESERVES; PLANNING; POPULATION DENSITY; URBAN AREAS

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                    Zoppi, Corrado, and Lai, Sabrina. Determinants of land take at the regional scale: a study concerning Sardinia (Italy).  United States: N. p., 2015. 
        Web.  doi:10.1016/J.EIAR.2015.06.002.

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                    Zoppi, Corrado, & Lai, Sabrina. Determinants of land take at the regional scale: a study concerning Sardinia (Italy).  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/J.EIAR.2015.06.002

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        "Determinants of land take at the regional scale: a study concerning Sardinia (Italy)".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/J.EIAR.2015.06.002.

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@article{osti_22479756,

  title        = {Determinants of land take at the regional scale: a study concerning Sardinia (Italy)},

  author       = {Zoppi, Corrado and Lai, Sabrina},

  abstractNote = {In its “Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe” (Communication COM(2011) 571 of 20 September 2011), the European Commission (EC) established an ambitious goal for the European Union (EU), that of achieving no land take by 2050; towards this aim, a key milestone for the year 2020 was set, by stating that European policies in the programming period 2014–2020 ought to consider both their direct and their indirect impacts on land use in the EU. Within this framework, this paper builds upon the findings of a previous paper (Zoppi and Lai, 2014), in which we estimated the magnitude of land take over a short period of time (2003–2008) in Sardinia, an Italian NUTS2 region, and we assessed whether and how land take is related to a set of variables that are regarded as important determinants in the literature, such as parcel size, accessibility, and proximity to main cities and towns, to the coastline, or to protected areas. In this paper we study the land-taking process taking Sardinia as a case study, in two larger time periods, 1960–1990 and 1990–2008. We assess if, and to what extent, these factors reveal similar, or different, effects in the two periods, and try to identify consistencies concerning the determinants of land take. - Highlights: • Population density and parcel size significantly affect the magnitude of land take. • The presence of nature conservation areas hinders land taking processes. • Extensive urbanization might effectively preserve non-artificial land. • Balanced accessibility of settlements and nature conservation regional policies can effectively contrast land take. • Size of non-artificial land parcels that become artificial is negatively and significantly connected to land take.},

  doi          = {10.1016/J.EIAR.2015.06.002},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22479756},
  journal      = {Environmental Impact Assessment Review},

  issn         = {0195-9255},

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  volume       = 55,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2015},

  month        = {Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2015}

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