Vol. 5 No. s3 (2010): Desertification and Environmental Vulnerability

Published: 10-10-2010

Letters to the Editor

Desertification and Environmental Vulnerability. Preface

Dimitra Rapti-Caputo, Massimo Iannetta

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Original Articles

Sustainable Water Resources Management to Combat Desertification in the Nurra Region, Northwestern Sardinia, Italy

Giorgio Ghiglieri, Giulio Barbieri, Antonio Vernier, Alberto Carletti, Daniele Pittalis

7-14
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A Local Action Plan (PAL) to Combat Desertification in Apulia Region: Functional Integration of Existing Territorial Programs

Claudia Trotta, Massimo Iannetta

15-20
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An Example of a Country Assessment: Desertification Mapping in Italy

Riccardo G. Boschetto, Marco Di Leginio, Anna Luise

21-26
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The Conditions of the Environment as Factors Affecting the Social and Political Stability of Populations

Fausto Pedrazzini

27-31
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Analysis of Contributing Factors to Desertification and Mitigation Measures in Basilicata Region

Bruno Basso, Lorenzo De Simone, Agostino Ferrara, Davide Cammarano, Giovanni Cafiero, Mei-Ling Yeh, Tien-Yin Chou

33-44
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A Modified Soil Quality Index to Assess the Influence of Soil Degradation Processes on Desertification Risk: The Apulia Case

Valeria Ancona, Delia Evelina Bruno, Nicola Lopez, Giuseppe Pappagallo, Vito Felice Uricchio

45-56
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Estimating Long to Short-Term Erosion Rates of Fluvial vs Mass Movement Processes: An Example from the Axial Zone of the Southern Italian Apennines

Maurizio Lazzari, Marcello Schiattarella

57-66
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Influence of Climatic Changes and Human Activities on the Salinization Process of Coastal Aquifer Systems

Dimitra Rapti-Caputo

67-80
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Water Quality and Soil Natural Salinity in the Southern Imera Basin (Sicily, Italy)

Roberta Selvaggi, Nicola Colonna, Flavio Lupia, Maria S. Murgia, Antonio Poletti

81-90
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Vulnerability to Desertification in a Sub-Saharan Region: A First Local Assessment in Five Villages of Southern Region of Malawi

Riccardo Giuseppe Boschetto, Rahma Mustafa Mohamed, Jacopo Arrigotti

91-102
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Environmental Indicators for Italian Soils (SIAS Project): Development of a New Approach from Regional to Harmonised National Data

Irene Rischia, Marco Di Leginio, Fiorenzo Fumanti, Paolo Giandon, Silvia Obber, Ialina Vinci

103-107
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