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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
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
Dynamic Varying in the landscape
COM 2006/231. Soil Thematic Strategy and NAP for Italy
Static/Dynamic Varying in the landscape
Directive 80/68/EC Groundwater against pollution
Dynamic Varying in the landscape
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
Dynamic Varying in the landscape
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+)
SOILCONSWEBSOILCONSWEBwww.landconsultingweb.eu
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
SOILCONSWEBSOILCONSWEBwww.landconsultingweb.eu
MODELLING
monitoring
network
SOILCONSWEBSOILCONSWEBwww.landconsultingweb.eu
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
SOILCONSWEBSOILCONSWEBwww.landconsultingweb.eu
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
….
The end