Peri-urban conflicts and environmental challenges: a Mediterranean perspective

"Urban expansion and the preservation of fringe landscapes are clearly interconnected issues. This book discusses the relationship between landscape and peri-urban agriculture and the possible implications of sustainable land management for fringe land quality, proposing a framework to evaluate the latent nexus between agro-forest systems and human settlements in Southern Europe. Eco-sustainable planning integrated with multi-faceted policy actions (social, economic, cultural and political dimensions) is a relevant approach to reinforce sustainability of fringe landscapes. Permanent assessment of these factors allows for the implementation of different development scenarios. The present work definitely contributes to systemic and multi-scale approaches informing environmental policies, with the aim of achieving an integrated management of peri-urban agricultural landscapes"--

Conflicting landscapes : urban fringes and socioeconomic transformations in southern Europe / Antonio Tomao, Rosanna Salvia, Matteo Clemente, and Luca Salvati -- Densifying, decompacting, rethinking cities : a Mediterranean debate / Antonio Tomao, Tiziano Sorgi, Matteo Clemente, and Luca Salvati -- Wildfires and the local context : an empirical analysis of a peri-urban district / Giuseppe Cillis, Rosa Coluzzi, Antonio Tomao, Maria Lanfredi, and Luca Salvati -- From deforestation to forestation : the long-term experience of a Mediterranean area / Antonio Tomao, Agostino Ferrara, Vito Imbrenda, and Luca Salvati -- Welcome to 'forestscapes' : in between urban reality and rural idyll / Matteo Clemente, Adriano Conte, Giovanni Quaranta, and Luca Salvati.