Fast land changes may lead to new unadaptive structures and functions and may remain unnoticed causing national as well as local land survey agencies to be ineffective. This argument will be displayed by means of a real case in central Italy and by focusing on the booming sprawl of photovoltaic solar modules on arable land. In Marche Region such a change has come about with an exponential pace in terms of area coverage. The figure emerging from our experimental survey shows 800 ha of arable lands sealed over the overall regional area in less than 7 years. So far, planning permissions to install solar modules are no longer acknowledged with ease on agricultural land and the subsidies have declined. Since solar technologies are a new promising land use frontier in agricultural land, a “standstill” may not be the best policy response. Land use policies should be able to respond to rapid changes, but this starts with rapid update of the effective land use practices. A positive feedback would come from open and volunteered geo-information.
Detection of Fast Landscape Changes: The Case of Solar Modules on Agricultural Land / Marcheggiani, Ernesto; Gulinck, H.; Galli, Andrea. - STAMPA. - 7974 LNCS, Issue PART 4:(2013), pp. 315-327. (Intervento presentato al convegno 13th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2013) tenutosi a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam nel June 24-27, 2013) [10.1007/978-3-642-39649-6_23].
Detection of Fast Landscape Changes: The Case of Solar Modules on Agricultural Land
MARCHEGGIANI, Ernesto;GALLI, Andrea
2013-01-01
Abstract
Fast land changes may lead to new unadaptive structures and functions and may remain unnoticed causing national as well as local land survey agencies to be ineffective. This argument will be displayed by means of a real case in central Italy and by focusing on the booming sprawl of photovoltaic solar modules on arable land. In Marche Region such a change has come about with an exponential pace in terms of area coverage. The figure emerging from our experimental survey shows 800 ha of arable lands sealed over the overall regional area in less than 7 years. So far, planning permissions to install solar modules are no longer acknowledged with ease on agricultural land and the subsidies have declined. Since solar technologies are a new promising land use frontier in agricultural land, a “standstill” may not be the best policy response. Land use policies should be able to respond to rapid changes, but this starts with rapid update of the effective land use practices. A positive feedback would come from open and volunteered geo-information.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
