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  1. Artikel ; Online: Modelling the impact of historic landscape change on soil erosion and degradation

    Filippo Brandolini / Tim C. Kinnaird / Aayush Srivastava / Sam Turner

    Scientific Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2023  Band 16

    Abstract: Abstract International policies and guidelines often highlight the divide between ‘nature’ and ‘heritage’ in landscape management, and the weakness of monodisciplinary approaches. This study argues that historic agricultural practices have played a key ... ...

    Abstract Abstract International policies and guidelines often highlight the divide between ‘nature’ and ‘heritage’ in landscape management, and the weakness of monodisciplinary approaches. This study argues that historic agricultural practices have played a key role in shaping today’s landscapes, creating a heritage which affords opportunities for more sustainable landscape management. The paper develops a new interdisciplinary approach with particular reference to soil loss and degradation over the long term. It presents innovative methods for assessing and modelling how pre-industrial agricultural features can mitigate soil erosion risk in response to current environmental conditions. Landscape archaeology data presented through Historic Landscape Characterisation are integrated in a GIS-RUSLE model to illustrate the impact of varying historic land-uses on soil erosion. The resulting analyses could be used to inform strategies for sustainable land resource planning.
    Schlagwörter Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Thema/Rubrik (Code) 710
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag Nature Portfolio
    Dokumenttyp Artikel ; Online
    Datenquelle BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Lebenswissenschaftliche Auswahl)

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  2. Artikel ; Online: The Impact of Late Holocene Flood Management on the Central Po Plain (Northern Italy)

    Filippo Brandolini / Mauro Cremaschi

    Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 11, p

    2018  Band 3968

    Abstract: Fluvial environments have always played a crucial role in human history. The necessity of fertile land and fresh water for agriculture has led populations to settle in floodplains more frequently than in other environments. Floodplains are complex human⁻ ... ...

    Abstract Fluvial environments have always played a crucial role in human history. The necessity of fertile land and fresh water for agriculture has led populations to settle in floodplains more frequently than in other environments. Floodplains are complex human⁻water systems in which the mutual interaction between anthropogenic activities and environment affected the landscape development. In this paper, we analyzed the evolution of the Central Po Plain (Italy) during the Medieval period through a multi-proxy record of geomorphological, archaeological and historical data. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire (5th century AD) coincided with a progressive waterlogging of large floodplain areas. The results obtained by this research shed new light on the consequences that Post-Roman land and water management activities had on landscape evolution. In particular, the exploitation of fluvial sediments through flood management practices had the effect of reclaiming the swamps, but also altered the natural geomorphological development of the area. Even so, the Medieval human activities were more in equilibrium with the natural system than with the later Renaissance large-scale land reclamation works that profoundly modified the landscape turning the wetland environment into the arable land visible today. The analysis of fluvial palaeoenvironments and their relation with past human activities can provide valuable indications for planning more sustainable urbanized alluvial landscapes in future.
    Schlagwörter flood management ; wetland ; land use change ; landscape transformation ; resilience ; late Holocene ; medieval age ; Environmental effects of industries and plants ; TD194-195 ; Renewable energy sources ; TJ807-830 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350
    Thema/Rubrik (Code) 710
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag MDPI AG
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  3. Artikel ; Online: Detecting desertification in the ancient oases of southern Morocco

    Louise Rayne / Filippo Brandolini / Jen Lavris Makovics / Emily Hayes-Rich / Jackson Levy / Hope Irvine / Lima Assi / Youssef Bokbot

    Scientific Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2023  Band 17

    Abstract: Abstract Understanding what led to desertification in the long-term is crucial for adaptation to climate change and pressures on resources in North Africa, but existing maps do not accurately show the extent of degraded land or the traditional water ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Understanding what led to desertification in the long-term is crucial for adaptation to climate change and pressures on resources in North Africa, but existing maps do not accurately show the extent of degraded land or the traditional water systems which underpinned cultivation. These products rely on recent vegetation trends and hindcasted statistical data. Desertification which occurred prior to the later twentieth century is poorly represented, if at all. However, large areas of abandoned fields are distinctive in satellite imagery as brightly reflectant and smooth surfaces. We present a new and open-source machine-learning workflow for detecting desertification using satellite data. We used Google Earth Engine and the random forest algorithm to classify five landcover categories including a class representing desertified fields. The input datasets comprised training polygons, a 12-band Sentinel-2 composite and derived tasselled cap components, and a Sentinel-1 VV-polarisation composite. We test our approach for a case study of Skoura oasis in southern Morocco with a resulting accuracy of 74–76% for the desertification class. We used image interpretation and archaeological survey to map the traditional irrigation systems which supply the oasis.
    Schlagwörter Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Thema/Rubrik (Code) 333
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag Nature Portfolio
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  4. Artikel ; Online: Creating the funerary landscape of Eastern Sudan.

    Stefano Costanzo / Filippo Brandolini / Habab Idriss Ahmed / Andrea Zerboni / Andrea Manzo

    PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e

    2021  Band 0253511

    Abstract: Funerary landscapes are eminent results of the relationship between environments and superstructural human behavior, spanning over wide territories and growing over centuries. The comprehension of such cultural palimpsests needs substantial research ... ...

    Abstract Funerary landscapes are eminent results of the relationship between environments and superstructural human behavior, spanning over wide territories and growing over centuries. The comprehension of such cultural palimpsests needs substantial research efforts in the field of human ecology. The funerary landscape of the semi-arid region of Kassala (Eastern Sudan) represents a solid example. Therein, geoarchaeological surveys and the creation of a desk-based dataset of thousands of diachronic funerary monuments (from early tumuli up to modern Beja people islamic tombs) were achieved by means of fieldwork and remote sensing over an area of ∼4100 km2. The wealth of generated information was employed to decipher the spatial arrangement of sites and monuments using Point Pattern Analysis. The enormous number of monuments and their spatial distribution are here successfully explained using, for the first time in archaeology, the Neyman-Scott Cluster Process, hitherto designed for cosmology. Our study highlights the existence of a built funerary landscape with galaxy-like aggregations of monuments driven by multiple layers of societal behavior. We suggest that the distribution of monuments was controlled by a synthesis of opportunistic geological constraints and cultural superstructure, conditioned by the social memory of the Beja people who have inhabited the region for two thousand years and still cherish the ancient tombs as their own kin's.
    Schlagwörter Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Thema/Rubrik (Code) 930
    Sprache Englisch
    Erscheinungsdatum 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Verlag Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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