The progressive artificial covering of originally natural surfaces (land consumption) is a
major concern of today's societies due to the implications for the environment and the …

Managing urban soil sealing is a difficult venture due to its spatial heterogeneity and
embedding in a socio-ecological system. A systemic solution is needed to tackle its spatial …

Italian coastal areas have been subject to strong anthropogenic pressure and urbanization
processes over the past 60 years. Urbanization of the protected 300-m strip from shoreline …

The main goal of the paper is to verify the impact of the absorption of European Union (EU)
grants on land cover changes in Polish municipalities in the years 2012–2018. The selection …

This article focuses on the role that the provisions of the Natura 2000 Network play in
affecting land-taking processes by looking at the Italian region of Sardinia, where strict rules …

The implementation of sustainable land policies is in need of monitoring methods that go
beyond a mere description of the proportion values of land use classes. The annual …

This study proposes a framework to assess the relationship between land-taking processes
and carbon sequestration, considered as a regulating ecosystem service. This framework is …

Land take, namely the conversion of natural land into impervious surfaces, is partly driven by
path dependency, whereby dispersed settlements tend to spread more than compact ones …

This study sets up a spatial econometric framework to explore the factors that best describe
land consumption in Italy at the municipal level. By modelling the different types of spatial …

Recent research has focused on quantitative measurement of land take at both the
international and the national level, so much so that systematic information has been …