Papers by Stefano Targetti
About one-third of the world’s land surface is used for farming, a fact that bears important impl... more About one-third of the world’s land surface is used for farming, a fact that bears important implications for biodiversity. In Europe, for instance, an estimated 50 percent of all wild species are reliant on agricultural habitats, while agricultural productivity often depends on the presence or absence of particular species. Despite this close coupling, surprisingly little is known about the status and evolution of farmland biodiversity. A team of European and African researchers, hoping to fill this gap in information, recently invented and piloted a new toolbox called the BioBio indicator set, which measures 23 different instances of biodiversity across a variety of farm types and scales in Europe. Applications were also tested in Tunisia, Ukraine, and Uganda, where they proved a feasible starting point for adaptation to the agricultural context of different countries.
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As European rural territories diversify, an increasing number of local actors are getting involve... more As European rural territories diversify, an increasing number of local actors are getting involved in the provision of private and public goods and services from agricultural landscapes. In this paper, we analyse the contribution of the relevant economic actors to the production of socio-economic benefits from agricultural landscapes, by way of the provision of both private and public goods. We propose the use of both an Analytic Network Process based approach and ecosystem services framework to empirically assess such contribution. To show the potentialities of the method, three different European case study areas located in Austria, Italy and Spain were used. According to the results, agriculture continues to have a key role in the valorisation of agricultural landscapes, while tourism is the sector that contributes the least. The results also point to the need to encourage the provision of environmental public goods, especially natural processes (carbon and water related, erosion...
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Agricultural landscape is a complex system composed by interrelated ecological, economic and soci... more Agricultural landscape is a complex system composed by interrelated ecological, economic and social sub-systems. Disentangling interactions and mechanisms in such a context is, therefore, difficult and involves knowledge and methodologies developed in different scientific fields. In this paper we propose a multicriteria approach – namely the Analytic Network Process (ANP)- with three objectives. a) to present the application of the ANP method to the agricultural landscape topic in 8 EU case study areas; b) to underline strenghts and weaknesses of that method; c) to discuss evidences and possibilities for the improvement of the method. Main results highlighted the possibility to employ the ANP as a structured integrated tool able to cross-compare similarities and dissimilarities between different case studies characterized by different biophysical features and socio-economic conditions. Building upon the results, our analysis underlined that the ANP technique confirmed the existence ...
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Forest@ - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale, 2008
... presenza di acqua ed al calpestamento è stata Deschampsia caespitosa; inoltre la presenza di ... more ... presenza di acqua ed al calpestamento è stata Deschampsia caespitosa; inoltre la presenza di una elevata quantità di deiezioni, di specie nitrofile quali Rumex alpinus e Urtica dioica, o di specie velenose di reazione ... Gusmeroli F, Della Marianna G, Arosio G, Bozzoli L (2004). ...
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... presenza di acqua ed al calpestamento è stata Deschampsia caespitosa; inoltre la presenza di ... more ... presenza di acqua ed al calpestamento è stata Deschampsia caespitosa; inoltre la presenza di una elevata quantità di deiezioni, di specie nitrofile quali Rumex alpinus e Urtica dioica, o di specie velenose di reazione ... Gusmeroli F, Della Marianna G, Arosio G, Bozzoli L (2004). ...
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... Giovanni Argenti1, Lorenzo Bottai2, Marta Chiesi3, Fabio Maselli3, Nicolina Staglianò1 e Stef... more ... Giovanni Argenti1, Lorenzo Bottai2, Marta Chiesi3, Fabio Maselli3, Nicolina Staglianò1 e Stefano Targetti4 ... 48 L'analisi multispettrale è stata realizzata su una immagine in formato L1B della catena alpina nord orientale italiana acquisita il 9 settembre 2006 alle ore 10:15 (ora ...
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Conservation and enhancement of ecosystem services’ supply has become a priority of rural policie... more Conservation and enhancement of ecosystem services’ supply has become a priority of rural policies. Nevertheless, trade-offs, indirect effects, and mismatches between service providers and benefiters hamper the possibility to supply optimal and sustainable levels of service provision. In some cases, ecosystem services benefit the same providers but difficulties in coordination and the uncertainty in the valorisation of the services hinder their efficient provision. In this paper, we develop an Agent Based Model to assess the conditions that lead to voluntary landscape protection efforts that arise from interactions among famers, agri-environmental payments, and rural tourism. The results suggest that a dynamic approach to policy formulation and a greater attention to the population of consumers/tourists could constitute strategies worth exploring.
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… Congress, August 30- …, 2011
By Stefano Targetti, Davide Viaggi and David Cuming; A comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of... more By Stefano Targetti, Davide Viaggi and David Cuming; A comparative cost-effectiveness analysis of biodiversity indicators in grassland farming systems. ... grassland farming systems. Stefano Targetti, Davide Viaggi and David Cuming. ...
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Copyright 2011 by Stefano Targetti, Davide Viaggi, David Cuming, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Jean-Philip... more Copyright 2011 by Stefano Targetti, Davide Viaggi, David Cuming, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Jean-Philippe Choisis. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears ...
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Diverse tipologie di operatori economici di un territorio trasformano i beni pubblici dando loro ... more Diverse tipologie di operatori economici di un territorio trasformano i beni pubblici dando loro un valore aggiunto e creando servizi (privati) per soddisfare la domanda del mercato. I benefici socio-economici prodotti si possono dunque raggruppare in tre categorie generali in base alla natura del bene che li ha generati: 1) benefici socio-economici generati dall’agricoltura attraverso la produzione di beni privati (cibo, energia, fibre, ecc.); 2) benefici socio-economici generati dai beni pubblici (opportunità ricreative); 3) benefici socio-economici generati dall’interazione di beni pubblici e privati (ad es. prodotti Dop, Igp).
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Since the 1950s, intensification and scale enlargement of agriculture have changed agricultural l... more Since the 1950s, intensification and scale enlargement of agriculture have changed agricultural landscapes across Europe. The intensification and scale enlargement of farming was initially driven by the large-scale application of synthetic fertilizers, mechanization and subsidies of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Then, after the 1990s, a further intensification and scale enlargement, and land abandonment in less favored areas was caused by globalization of commodity markets and CAP reforms. The landscape changes during the past six decades have changed the flows and values of ecosystem services. Here, we have reviewed the literature on agricultural policies and management, landscape structure and composition, and the contribution of ecosystem services to regional competitiveness. The objective was to define an analytical framework to determine and assess ecosystem services at the landscape scale. In contrast to natural ecosystems, ecosystem service flows and values in agricultural landscapes are often a result of interactions between agricultural management and ecological structures. We describe how land management by farmers and other land managers relates to landscape structure and composition. We also examine the influence of commodity markets and policies on the behavior of land managers. Additionally, we studied the influence of consumer demand on flows and values of the ecosystem services that originate from the agricultural landscape.
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... presenza di acqua ed al calpestamento è stata Deschampsia caespitosa; inoltre la presenza di ... more ... presenza di acqua ed al calpestamento è stata Deschampsia caespitosa; inoltre la presenza di una elevata quantità di deiezioni, di specie nitrofile quali Rumex alpinus e Urtica dioica, o di specie velenose di reazione ... Gusmeroli F, Della Marianna G, Arosio G, Bozzoli L (2004). ...
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Abstract-Organic and low-input farming practices are considered keystones for the conservation of... more Abstract-Organic and low-input farming practices are considered keystones for the conservation of biodiversity in semi-natural systems. Accordingly, attention to the assessment of the benefits stemming from these activities is increasing in order to provide ...
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