WIT Press


The Sustainable Management Of Resources In The Mitigation Of The Risk Of Desertification In The Apulia Region

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

72

Pages

12

Published

2004

Size

2,994 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SC040201

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

C. Cherubini, R. Del Prete & C.I. Giasi

Abstract

Numerous studies at the international level have demonstrated that the possibility of climatic changes on a global scale could come true. The knowledge of the chronological tendency of the climatic parameters and the recognition of a character of extreme event in the manifestation of some meteorological phenomena allow the signals of change that are taking place to be defined and if there are tangible impacts on the territory, like the risk of desertification. According to the work of the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) the southern and insular regions of Italy are involved in a tendential process of environmental crisis essentially caused by some factors such as: tendential process of ‘tropicalization’ of the climate; qualitative depa

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