Forests are essential for our environment, society and economy. Beyond mitigating climate change and natural disasters, forests are also crucial ecosystems for biological diversity. However, these ecosystems serve other valuable functions, including soil conservation, water cycle regulation, carbon storage, providing resources and habitat. The Global Forest Resources Assessment Report (FAO, 2020) estimates that the world The post The call of the wild seduces even digital first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

The study of my Bachelor’s Thesis Work in Forestry and Environmental Sciences examined a mixed coniferous reforestation forest about forty years old, mainly consisting of white spruce (Abies alba Miller) and maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton), located in Basilicata, in the municipality of Savoia di Lucania (PZ, Italy), in the locality of “Grotta dell’Angelo.” It The post Is climate change altering our forests? first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

Floods represent one of the most common and most impactful natural disasters worldwide. During the first two decades of the 2000s, floods alone caused $651 billion in economic damage and these losses are expected to increase further in the future due to climate change, economic growth and urbanisation. Effective flood management requires accurate knowledge of The post An innovative approach to river flood mapping first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 was recorded in Turkey on 6 February 2023 and affected a large area in south-eastern Anatolia, on the border with Syria. This event was replicated about 9 hours later by another tremor with an estimated magnitude of 7.5, about 60/70 km north-east of the first one; in addition, The post Earthquake in Turkey: the apocalypse is always man-made first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

The Bosco Pantano forest represents the last strip of lowland forest in southern Italy, ‘a fossil’ that has escaped the wild reclamation and agricultural intensification that affected the Lucanian territory in the last century. Located on the hydrographic left of the Sinni river, it covers an area of a few hundred hectares in the municipality The post The Bosco Pantano of Policoro, the last enchanted forest first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.

Polycentrism is a morphological-functional trait of the world’s territorial systems. Polycentric regions are characterised by the fact that they do not have a single urban centre as they are predominantly organised in several centres with similar demographic and socio-economic dimensions. Polycentric development has long been a pillar of the European Spatial Planning and Development Strategy The post Land consumption and urban settlements in Italy first appeared on SmartGreen Post | news about the environment.