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Bio-based and Applied Economics | 2017

A spatial analysis of terrain features and farming styles in a disadvantaged area of Tuscany (Mugello): implications for the evaluation and the design of CAP payments

Laura Fastelli; Chiara Landi; Massimo Rovai; Maria Andreoli

In recent times there has been a growing awareness of the role of agriculture in providing public goods and services, in particular in less favoured areas. However, since agriculture is an economic activity, its permanence implies that it should be able to generate a satisfactory income for farmers. Where this is not possible, due to natural constraints or adverse economic and market conditions, in order to maintain an adequate use of farmland it is necessary to provide public aid to farmers. In this framework, the design of proper interventions aimed to promote rural development in less favoured areas should be based on a deep knowledge at the farm and territorial level. As regards the territorial level, the RDP zoning [art. 11 Reg. Ce 1698/2005] developed by Member States on the base of the guidelines provided by the European Commission is very often not sufficient to adequately define the territorial characteristics of rural areas. The use of GIS techniques may help to handle this issue by providing a better and more detailed knowledge at the territorial level. Farm level is important insofar as aid effectiveness is usually strongly depending on the type of farm that is receiving it. Thus, a careful selection of beneficiaries could determine a more effective and efficient distribution of resources. This paper aims to provide a spatial analysis of natural constraints and types of farming style in Mugello area and to analyse their relations with CAP aid distribution. Both Single Payment Scheme (SPS) and Rural Development Programme (RDP) payments have been taken into account. The paper combines a GIS analysis of terrain features with the theoretical approach of farming styles. For this purpose, the study integrates several sources of data: the 2010 Italian Agriculture Census, the Tuscany Regional Agency for Payments in Agriculture (ARTEA) database, and land cover data from the database Corine Land Cover (CLC-06), as updated to 2007 by LAMMA (Laboratory for Environment Monitoring and Modelling). A geo-referenced database including socioeconomic attributes of farms, land use, and terrain characteristics has been generated in order to merge information at territorial and farm level. The results of this integrated analysis confirm that Mugello is a very heterogeneous area as regards terrain characteristics despite the fact that it is totally included in less favoured areas. On the other side, farm strategies and economic results seem to be related to entrepreneurial characteristics as much as to natural constraints. The analysis of Pillar I payments and RDP payments for farms located in this mountainous area shows a very complex situation where the strategies implemented by farmers of the strongest farming styles may successfully counteract natural constraints. Besides, in the Authors’ opinion, the analyses performed highlight the importance of spatial analysis as a tool for evaluating how public resources are distributed on a territory, thus providing also useful information on the way this distribution could be improved, e.g. for ensuring a higher level of environmental services.


Archive | 2018

Integrating AHP and GIS Techniques for Rural Landscape and Agricultural Activities Planning

Massimo Rovai; Maria Andreoli

This chapter aims at providing some insights on the usefulness of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in the context of geographic multi-criteria analysis applied to GIS techniques for empirical applications. The increasing complexity in planning and programming applied to rural landscape and territories asks for multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches based on a holistic knowledge system. The AHP allows organizing in a hierarchic way both quantitative and qualitative information related to different disciplines, usually expressed in incommensurable measure units. Participatory approaches can be included either through information based on the perception of the value of indicators (criteria) or by providing weights on the relative importance of the elements included in each hierarchical level. When applied to GIS techniques, the AHP allows taking into account both spatial distribution of elements/information and their physical relations, which are paramount for the analysis of interventions about landscape, biodiversity, etc. This chapter illustrates four case studies from Tuscany Region (Italy) where this approach has been applied. Results highlight the flexibility of this approach in planning, programming and designing specific interventions where several biophysical characteristics of a territory or landscape have to be integrated with socioeconomic information both at territorial and farm levels. Results show that it is possible to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of tools for the territorial governance by applying a scientifically sound approach that does not ask for complex mathematical models and provides a methodology and results that can be understood also by “non-experts”, improving participation processes.


RIV. RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI VALUTAZIONE | 2015

Valdera 2020 : i risultati di una procedura partecipata di valutazione

Francesco Paolo Di Iacovo; Roberta Moruzzo; Paola Scarpellini; Laura Fastelli; Massimo Rovai

The paper describes the experience of the participatory project Valdera 2020, aimed at the setting of the Strategic Plan 2020 for the Union of Municipalities in Valdera. The contribution, in addition to a summary of the project, shows the steps followed to manage a participatory evaluation procedure (PPV). It analyses and discusses the results obtained (in terms of outputs and outcomes) and provides some considerations about the possibility to transfer the procedure adopted.


Advanced Engineering Forum | 2014

Integrated Urban Regeneration: the Opportunity of Enhancing the Open Spaces

Massimo Rovai; Laura Fastelli; Fabio Lucchesi; Francesco Monacci

The paper, draws the attention of the debate a reflection on the possibility of developing, in some urban areas, strategies and actions for the regeneration and redevelopment of the city; bringing to the attention not only the improvement of the spatial and functional dimension of the rundown neighborhoods, but also of the social and environmental dimensions. The valorisation of these areas may benefit from the theory of Ecosystem Services [, which appears to be able to renew the traditional approaches, to land use planning from the perspective of urban metabolism [; in this regard are of great interest those forms of planning of degraded urban fringes that take into account the minimal standard of space and/or rural services by to each inhabitant in order to make an area sustainable. The contribution starts from careful analysis of the rural peri-urban areas of Tuscany, polarized between two apparently conflicting dynamics between them (use of land abandonment and agricultural soils), to develop a reflection about the possibility of experiencing urban regeneration processes that include in inside them, innovative forms for the design of open spaces, with the aim both to recover a portion of depressed urban areas both to create new public spaces, modeled according to the forms of multifunctional agriculture and identitarian landscape [. An urban regeneration directed not only to the built space, but also to the open space and to the promotion of effective projectuality through proper analysis of services, which could be offered by rural areas and serve needs expressed by residents.


Land Use Policy | 2016

A DSS model for the governance of sustainable rural landscape: A first application to the cultural landscape of Orcia Valley (Tuscany, Italy)

Massimo Rovai; Maria Andreoli; Simone Gorelli; Heikki Jussila


53rd ERSA conference. “Regional integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World economy” | 2013

Understanding the participation in agri-environmental schemes: evidence from Tuscany Region

Fabio Bartolini; Gianluca Brunori; Laura Fastelli; Massimo Rovai


Agriculture | 2016

Combining Multifunctionality and Ecosystem Services into a Win-Win Solution. The Case Study of the Serchio River Basin (Tuscany—Italy)

Massimo Rovai; Maria Andreoli


AGRIREGIONIEUROPA | 2013

Una proposta per la pianificazione delle aree agricole periurbane: lo standard di ruralità

Massimo Rovai; Laura Fastelli


Actes et communications - Institut national de la recherche agronomique. Economie et sociologie rurales | 1999

Plurality of organisational forms in the supply of typical products: empirical evidence in Italy

Gianluca Brunori; Francesca Ceron; Adanella Rossi; Massimo Rovai


Archive | 2014

Agricoltura e beni pubblici : azioni collettive per la governance del territorio

Inea; Francesco Vanni; Giovanni Cannata; Gianluca Brunori; Massimo Rovai; Monica Caggiano; Stefano Trione; Patrizia Borsotto; Sylvie Chaussod; Silvia Coderoni; Martina Bolli

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