Luigi Perini

TL;DR: In this paper, a multidimensional analysis of an indicator of urban land use efficiency (per-capita built-up area, LUE) in mainland Attica, a Mediterranean urban region, along different expansion waves (1960-2010): compaction and densification in the 1960s, dispersed growth along the coasts and on Athens’ fringe in the 1970s, fringe consolidation in the 1980s, moderate re-polarization and discontinuous expansion in the 1990s and sprawl in remote areas in the 2000s.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified the level of land sensitivity to desertification in Italy at seven points between 1960 and 2010 at a fine spatial scale using the Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored changes in land use and cover (LULC) and their relationship with the consumption of soils in Emilia-Romagna (northern Italy) over a 55-year period from 1954 to 2008, and separately over three time periods (1954-1976, 1976-1994 and 1994-2008) characterized by distinctive processes of urban and agricultural development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial distribution of an indicator of soil vulnerability to degradation (the soil quality index) was compared with an aridity index (the ratio of annual rainfall to annual reference evapotranspiration) estimated on a decadal basis during 1951-2010.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of biophysical and anthropogenic factors as potential drivers of land degradation in a large Mediterranean urban region was examined in relation to the territorial disparities observed within Rome's metropolitan area (Italy), and to the changes in its spatial organisation resulting from urban shrinkage.