a new vision in land management and soil conservation · a new vision in land management and soil...

Fabio Terribile & Angelo Basile(but we must add 20 other authors)

DISSPAPA, Università

di Napoli Federico IICNR ISAFoM

Multifunctional Soil Conservation and Land Management through the

Development of a Web Based Spatial Decision Supporting System

(SoilConsWeb – LIFE+ 2008)

A new vision in land management and soil conservation

In our societies:•increasing pressure by human population •Increasing demand for food security•Increasing demand for a better environment •Increasing demand for a more sustainable agriculture•Increasing demand to obtain higher income in rural areas•Little or no awareness on

the importance

of

landscape

&

soilThen

it

is

obvious

that

answering

to

these

demands

require

better

planning,

managing

and

monitoring

our landscapes.

These

issues

are

even

more

important

considering

the evident

land

and

soil

degradation

processes

unevenly

spread across landscapes in many countries.

But providing an answer to all these

demands

with

suitable

landscape/farm

planning

& managing

can

be

a

very

complex issue !

Farms

This situation is not better for larger administrative bodies producing decision over the landscape: e.g. counties, cities, districts, regions…

Income from

urbanization fees

Food security

Adaptation Climate changeGuidelines of governance

Sustainable productivity

European Commission – DG Environmentset very high objectives !

…

protect, preserve and improve the environment for present and future

generations.

Europe 2020 priorities•Smart growth•Sustainable growth•Inclusive growth•Economic governance

http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/index_en.htm

We requires answers across different scales (action is often local !)

The multifunctional role of soil

Data quantity/quality varying in space and time

Important processes happening in soils/landscape are not static…

but dynamic

But why things are complex ?

This applies also to the Soil Functions as evaluated by the Soil Thematic Strategy (EU,

COM2006 230,231)

1)

Food and other biomass production2)

Storing, filtering and transformation3)

Habitat and gene pool4)

Physical and cultural environment for humankind5)

Source of raw materials

Goods and Services provided by Soil

Soil

Ground Water

Biodiversity

Open Water

AirBiomass Production(e.g. food chain)

Human Health

W.E.H. Blum, 2004

Culture

Some important EU regulations concerning the management of agricultural/forestry and environmental issues.

EU regulation/directive and NAP (Italy)

Required answer

Time SpaceRif. ACP System of conditionalityReg. (EC) 1782/031783/05

Dynamic Varying in the landscape

Directive 91/676/EC NitratesDirective 60/00 EC Water Framework


COM 2006/231. Soil Thematic Strategy and NAP for Italy

Static/Dynamic Varying in the landscape

Directive 80/68/EC Groundwater against pollution


Directive 86/276/EC Sewage sludge Static/Dynamic Varying in the landscape

Directive 75/268/EC; Reg. (EC) 1257/99; art.19 reg.(EC) 1698/05 art. 50.3(a) Disadvantaged areas

Static Varying in the landscape

Reg.(EC) 510/06 Reg.(EC) 1898/06 Designations of origin

Static Varying in the landscape

Reg. (EC) 1698/05 Reg. (EC) 1974/06Rural development in forestland


Things are also complex because… farmers/municipalities/other bodies at least should also

have on hand :

• a large and dynamic environmental database…

•a group of skillful experts capable to work together and to use this large database to provide a set of simple options

for the decision makers to choose…

we believe that all these complex things can happen developing a “Spatial DSS integrated with DSM and simulation modelling engines”!

not a webGIS

SOILCONSWEBSOILCONSWEBwww.landconsultingweb.eu

Our pilot projectSOILCONSWEB (LIFE+)


National Council of

Research

University o NaplesAgrarian Faculty

Campania Region Spin‐off company

The

project

consists

of

building

a

web

based

Spatial

Decision

Support System (SDSS)

–

strongly focused on soil ‐

and operating in the

field of

rural landscape and forestry.

•Thematic maps :

climate data, soil

data, etc.

Raster and vector

format;

•Raw data

DATABASESERVER

Manage maps, process data,

dymamic modelling simulation

The

database

is

constantly

updated:

i.e.

daily

spatialized

climate

data

deriving

by

monitoring

network

CLIENT

Query

System answer

Users•Agricultural

managers•Local

Authorities•Policy Makers

Contenuti NO3- (20- 35 cm)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

24/5

13/6

3/7

23/7

12/8

1/9

21/9

11/1

031

/10

20/1

110

/12

30/1

219

/18/

228

/220

/39/

429

/419

/58/

628

/618

/77/

827

/816

/96/

1026

/10

15/1

15/

1225

/12

Tempo

Kg

NO

3- /ha

25/

StimatiMisurati


MODELLING

monitoring

network


The

system

has

been

implemented

and

currently

it

is

on

testing

phase

in

a

pilot

area of about 20.000 hectares (Valle Telesina – Campania region).

•It

represents

an

heterogeneous

territory

composed

by

agricultural

and

forestry

systems potentially affected by problems of management and preservation;

•Availability of good quality environmental data (soil maps, climate data, etc)

•It is an area suitable for high quality wine and olive oil production (needing support

on decisions);

DEM Soil map


How the system appears?

On the fly

video

We

showed

that

it

is

possible

to

have

a

(dynamic)

SDSS

system having some key features :

i. based on the concept of soil/landscape multifunctionality;ii.potentially

adapted

to

the

need

of

each

end‐user

(action

at

the local scale);iii. enabling “what if”

modelling.

iv. Then we do not to provide “solutions”

but “options”.v.Local

communities

awareness

on

soil/landscape

conservation/sustainable management; vi.enabling

to

incorporate

bottom‐up

contributions

to

governance (to be developed by 2014);vii. user friendly (complexity is embedded);P.S. – WE ARE LOOKING FOR TWO EUROPEAN SITES FOR TESTING

THE TOOL

Some conclusions

we (scientists, technical assistants, landscape planners and managers, stakeholders, farmers) must abandon some of our certainties (our approaches) and reschedule part of our work !

…otherwise we never meet !

Needless to say…DG ENV – if interested - could play a crucial role !

But

all

this

has

a high cost

….

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