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The scale and pattern influences on the hedgerow networks’ effect on landscape processes: First considerations about the need to plan for landscape amelioration purposes

Daniel Franco (Department of Environmental Science, Ca’Foscari University of Venezia, Venice, Italy)

Environmental Management and Health

ISSN: 0956-6163

Article publication date: 1 August 2002

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Abstract

In the last decade we realised several rural landscape amelioration plans (Italy) by means of diffuse reintroduction of agroforestry linear plantations. To this end a GIS decision support system was developed that has been progressively implemented after design problem solutions and field/simulation research. Given that hedgerow (re)introduction could be a means to ameliorate some rural landscape processes, up until today we have reached the conclusion that planning is a necessary way to optimise such a transformation for socio‐economic and intrinsic reasons. Therefore we need to be able to distinguish the effect of the agroforestry systems (mainly hedgerow) among different scales (single planting/landscape) and different patterns (isolated systems/networks) to optimise their positive effects on landscape processes at different scales; and it is not possible to optimise landscape transformations by means of agroforestry network implementation without an action plan able to evaluate them.

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Franco, D. (2002), "The scale and pattern influences on the hedgerow networks’ effect on landscape processes: First considerations about the need to plan for landscape amelioration purposes", Environmental Management and Health, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 263-276. https://doi.org/10.1108/09566160210431060

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