14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal THE LANDSCAPE UNITS AS TOLLS PLANNING Interactions between anthropic activity and natural resources as projectual question Stefania CAIAZZO, Ines ALBERICO, Immacolata APREDA, Alessandro DAL PIAZ and Massimo FAGNANO University of Napoli Federico II This paper presents the results of several studies (in course of elaboration at CIRAM) directed to integrate different data (agronomic, geo-morphological and landscape data) from Naples Province Territorial Plan (PTCP), to define Landscape Units (LU) for the construction of an ecological regional network. The methodology for the definition of the Landscape Units is based on a complex concept of landscape: the landscape results an multi-integrated interaction between anthropic and natural factors. In this perspective, the Landscape Units are intended as complexes territorial areas to which the constituent elements, also heterogeneous, confer a specific identity and image as a consequence of the relation systems between them and that determine the formation and the evolution of Landscape Units. The Landscape Units methodology suggests the hypothesis that different disciplinary analyses can be independently developed, with technical and specific criteria, to construct a multidisciplinary integrated scheme, where complex and integrated appraisals try to recognize the interactions between the various components. KEYWORDS Naples province, geological zones, landscape planning, landscape units, territorial complexity INTRODUCTION The produced studies represent the preliminary elaborations to integrate the Naples Coordinating Territorial Planning (PTCP) contents, concerning the pedological, agronomical, environmental and landscape components, according to: planning course expressed in the “Linee guida per la pianificazione territoriale regionale” [“Guide lines for the regional territorial planning“]. preliminary methodological indications elaborated by the Regione Campania in order to give a landscape importance to the territorial plans for the provincial coordination. contents of the “Codice dei beni culturali e del paesaggio“[“Code of the cultural resources and the landscape“], according to the report of the European Convention on the landscape. These integrated and multidisciplinary studies represent the preliminary steps to the reconstruction of the Landscape Units and to constitute the provincial ecological system. This research and the developed elaborations have been included in a process of progressive integration of necessary knowledge to conform the PTCP to the following objects: - protection and valorization of agricultural and forestal resources; definition of standards for the constitution of the provincial ecological system, connected with the regional one and in compliance with the regulations of the Regional Territorial Plan (PTR) regional trends; landscape planning, so that the PTCP can have the value and efficacy as a landscape plan, in conformity with the last national and regional legislative provisions. These goals include principles and indications according to the “Convenzione europea sul paesaggio” [“European landscape Convention”] and the law provisions about the landscape planning by which landscape planning and management are taken back to responsibility for the choices and for the actions of territorial transformation and development. As a consequence it has become a necessity to insert specific components for landscape analysis, interpretation and planning in the creation of territorial and town plans. According to assumed aims, it has been followed a study system to analysis and to interpret the landscape as follow: the first one is developed in relation to single topics; the second one, by locating and considering relations between different topics and different territorial components. It synthesizes analytical and interpretative elaborations and gives a proposal for the provincial territorial articulation in areas where Landscape Units are identified. 1 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal It may be given a first analysis and interpretation of constitutive characters of provincial territory, referring to different territorial and landscape components. The investigated subjects are about: geological and geomorphological characterization; territorial classification; characteristics of agricultural and natural areas; installation system and landscape. It is important to remember that studies about characteristics of agricultural and natural areas have a particular importance for the plan contents integration. The huge analysis of a variable dataset makes possible not only to complete knowledge, in the aim of town-planning adjustment and in relation to plan landscape value, but also to form effective strategies for the agricultural production valorization based on a reliable table of resources and of potentiality. The construction of provincial ecological network based on the regional one is the aim of this study, too. This first stage of this methodological study is based on the analysis of the single topics to individuate the provincial landscape structural elements. The second stage uses Landscape Units to explain territory in relation to the landscape qualities tutelage, recovery and valorization. In literature and in planning documents there are different definitions of Landscape Units, but its main meaning - widely shared - recognizes the Landscape Units as a whole territorial area to which constitutive components give a specific identity and image, due to the relations among them which have caused its making and development. This Landscape Units meaning refers to latest elaborations to the European Union ambient principles and to landscape meaning stated in the European Convention 2000, but also to last two ten-years periods of theoretic elaborations and planning experiences that reformed territorial interpretation and relations between the territorial dynamics and the local community action. The combination of analytical and interpretative elaborations, in relation to single topics, produced a first orientation scheme for individuation of Landscape Units and of specific components which identify and distinguish an area from the others. GEOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY OF NAPLES PROVINCE: DEFINITION OF GEOLOGICAL ZONES The Naples Province area, even if characterized by a limited extension, has a remarkable lithologic and geomorphologic variability, mainly due to the coexistence of both volcanic (Campi Flegrei and Vesuvio volcanic areas) and sedimentary environments (limestone relief of Capri island, Sorrento Peninsula, Palma Campania and Roccarainola mountains). This particular geological framework has made very difficult the identification and the classification of Geological Zones which characterize the landscape Units. A step by step approach has been used to define these Zones: first) collection and analysis of environmental data (geolithology, geomorphology, altimetry, slope, permeability, aquifer vulnerability, slope stability, seismic vulnerability, volcanic hazard and subsurface vulnerability); second) data semplification and generation of monothematic maps; third) creation of partial integrated maps based on the monothematic maps elaborated in the previous steps (Physiographic Units map, vulnerability environmental and morphology maps) and fourth) generation of a final integrated map, as a combination of partial integrated maps. In the first step, the collected environmental data have been organized in a Geographic Information System to find out a distinctive relation existing between them through the use of spatial analysis. The overlap of part of data has shown the generation of complex map due to the huge quantity of heterogenic data presented in each of ones. As a consequence, two distinct factors have been used to simplify the environmental data and to realize monothematic maps with a reduced number of classes: the map scale (1:25.000) and the reclassification concept. Secondly, data simplification based on the scale concept has been uniformly applied on the spatial elements of all the environmental data through the union of polygons with a limited extension to its neighbourhood greater extended. On the contrary the simplification of data, based on the reclassification concept, has changed in relation to the environmental data type analysed. Thirdly, geolithological, altimetry and slope data have been analysed and reclassified to define the Physiographic Units, which can be considered the fundamental elements in the recognition of Geological Zones and their relationships. 2 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal In detail, from the Naples Province Geolithological map [4], following the lithology reclassification concept, 11 geolithological units has been defined lumped together classes with same lithology but related to different time periods. The altimetry data, classified in 3 classes: plain (0-100 m), hill (100-600 m) and mountain (>600 m), have allowed us the identification of: Both coastal and internal plains; Campi Flegrei and the Somma-Vesuvio volcanic areas; Topographic relief of Capri and Ischia Islands and the different limestone-highs cropping out in the southern (Massa Lubrense, Sorrento, Piano di Sorrento, S.Agnello, Meta e Parte di Vico Equense) and the northern sector (Vico Equense, Rimonte, Agevola, Gragnano e Lettere) of the Sorrento Peninsula and also the Palma Campania and Roccarainola mountains bordering the Campanian Plain. The slope data have been classified in 4 classes to show the difference between the flat area (plain zones) and the high slope characterizing a lot of limestone and volcanic hillsides: <15°, 15°-30°, 30°45°, >45°. The Physiographic Units have been generate using the geometric intersection and the prevailing concepts. In particular, the data related to the 11 geolithological units and to the 3 altimetry classes have been intersected generating 27 Physiographic Units (FIG.1, TAB.1), while the slope data have been joined to each Physiographic Units as mean slope. Fig. 1 : Naples Province Physiographic Units. Physiographic Unit PU1 PU2 PU3 PU4 PU5 Description Alternation of whitish siltstones locally fossiliferous, elevation range 0-100, mean slope 15°30° Alternation of whitish siltstones locally fossiliferous, elevation range 100-600, mean slope 15°-30° Alternation of clayey marly sandstone and coarse-grained sandstone, elevation range 0100, mean slope ≤15° Alternation of clayey marly sandstone and coarse-grained sandstone, elevation range 100600, mean slope ≤15° Limestones and calcarenites of Sorrento Peninsula and Avella Mountains, elevation range 0-100, mean slope =30° PU6 Limestones and calcarenites of Sorrento Peninsula and Avella Mountains, elevation range 100-600, mean slope =30° PU7 Limestones and calcarenites of Sorrento Peninsula and Avella Mountains, elevation range >600, mean slope =30° 3 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal PU8 Alluvial, marshy and beach deposits of the coastal zone and intra-crateric planes, elevation range 0-100, mean slope ≤15° PU9 Alluvial, marshy and beach deposits of the coastal zone and intra-crateric planes, elevation range 100-600, mean slope ≤15° PU10 Pediment and fan detrital deposits, elevation range 0-100, mean slope ≤15° PU11 Pediment and fan detrital deposits, elevation range 100-600, mean slope ≤15° PU12 Pediment and fan detrital deposits, elevation range >600, mean slope 15°-30° PU13 Matrix supported pyroclastic deposits mix to fragments of sedimentary deposits with chaotic texture, elevation range 0-100, mean slope ≤15° PU14 Matrix supported pyroclastic deposits mix to fragments of sedimentary deposits with chaotic texture, elevation range 100-600, mean slope 15°-30° PU15 Matrix supported pyroclastic deposits mix to fragments of sedimentary deposits with chaotic texture, elevation range >600, mean slope 15°-30° PU16 Pyroclastic deposits, volcanic dome, lava and dykes, elevation range 0-100, mean slope ≤15° PU17 Pyroclastic deposits, volcanic dome, lava and dykes, elevation range 100-600, mean slope ≤15° F18 PU19 Pyroclastic deposits, elevation range 0-100, mean slope 15°-30° Pyroclastic deposits, elevation range 100-600, mean slope 15°-30° PU20 Pyroclastic deposits, elevation range >600, mean slope 15°-30° PU21 Lavas, elevation range 0-100, mean slope ≤15° PU22 Lavas, elevation range 100-600, mean slope ≤15° PU23 Lavas, elevation range >600, mean slope 15°-30° PU24 Travertine, elevation range 0-100, mean slope ≤15° PU25 Tuff, elevation range 0-100, mean slope ≤15° PU26 Tuff, elevation range 100-600, mean slope 15°-30° PU27 Tuff, elevation range >600, mean slope 15°-30° Tab. 1: Physiographic Units description For each Physiographic Units have been also recognized and classified the geomorphological elements in the following two main classes: primary and subordinate morphological shapes (FIG.2). The main types of hazard, affecting the study area, have been also used (aquifer vulnerability, slope stability, seismic vulnerability, volcanic hazard and subsurface vulnerability) to indicate the territorial vulnerability for each Geological Zones. The aquifer vulnerability data have been acquired to the Aquifer vulnerability map elaborated in 1998 [3] where the Naples Province area has been subdivided in 4 classes: High vulnerability, Medium vulnerability, Low vulnerability, Not defined vulnerability. The slope stability data have been acquired from the Landslide location map [5] where the Province of Naples area has been subdivided in 9 classes, each ones characterized by a predominant landslide type and/or erosional event. The seismic vulnerability data have been record by the new seismic classification defined by decision n. 5547 of 7 November 2002 of Giunta della Regione Campania. This classification subdivided the study area in 2 zones. 4 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal Fig.2: Morphological elements describing the Naples Province landscape with seismic index equal to 3 and equal to 2 for the Sorrento Peninsula and Capri island and for all the other Naples Province municipalities, respectively. (Fig.3) The subsurface vulnerability has been evaluated considering only the presence or the absence of cavities [1, 2, 6]. This information has been joined to each municipality (FIG.3). 5 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal The volcanic vulnerability data have been detected by the volcanic vulnerability map [8, 9] where the areas subjected to the Somma-Vesuvio and the Campi Flegrei activity have been classified in three classes: High volcanic vulnerability, for the area close to the Somma- Vesuvio volcano; Low and/or Medium volcanic vulnerability, for the area between the Somma-Vesuvio volcano and the Roccarainola, Palma Campania and Sorrento Peninsula limestone relief; Medium high volcanic vulnerability for the Campi Flegrei area located inside the caldera zone. The vulnerability types analysed are different, mainly for the occurrence of considered events as a consequence it has been useful: a) to summarize the slope instability, the aquifer vulnerability and the subsurface vulnerability by the geometric intersection; b) to overlay the previous map to the volcanic and seismic vulnerability map to join this information to the new zones generated in the previous step. The Naples Province integrated vulnerability map obtained by these two steps is characterized by the following 26 classes (FIG.3; TAB.3): Fig.3: Integrated vulnerability map Code 1 2 3 4 Territorial vulnerability High aquifer vulnerability; medium volcanic hazard in the Somma-Vesuvio area, seismic index = 2; presence of cavities. High aquifer vulnerability; tuff fall; seismic index= 2 except for the Sorrento Peninsula zones characterized by a seismic index= 3; presence of cavities. High aquifer vulnerability; falls along the deepening valleys; seismic index= 2 except for the Sorrento Peninsula zones characterized by a seismic index= 3; presence of cavities. High aquifer vulnerability; high frequency of debris flows in the pyroclastic deposits and rock fall; medium volcanic hazard in the Somma-Vesuvio area and low volcanic hazard in Sorrento Peninsula and in Roccarainola municipality; seismic index= 2 except for the Sorrento Peninsula zones characterized by a seismic index= 3; presence of cavities. 6 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | Tomar, Portugal High aquifer vulnerability; high frequency of debris flows in the pyroclastic deposits, rock fall and complex landslide in flysch; seismic index= 3; presence of cavities. High aquifer vulnerability; tuff and lava falls; seismic index= 2; presence of cavities. High aquifer vulnerability; erosional and/or solid transport events; high volcanic hazard; seismic index= 2; presence of cavities High aquifer vulnerability; high frequency of debris flows in the pyroclastic deposits, tuff fall; mediumhigh volcanic hazard in the Campi Flegrei area; seismic index= 2; presence of cavities. High aquifer vulnerability; debris flows in the pyroclastic deposits and flysch, rock fall; seismic index= 3. Low aquifer vulnerability; seismic index= 2 Low aquifer vulnerability; high frequency of debris flows in the pyroclastic deposits and rock fall; seismic index = 3. Low aquifer vulnerability; debris flows in the pyroclastic deposits, rock fall and complex landslide in flysch; seismic index = 3; presence of cavities. Low aquifer vulnerability; erosional and/or solid transport events; high volcanic hazard; seismic index = 2. Low aquifer vulnerability; debris flows in the pyroclastic deposits, tuff fall; medium-high volcanic hazard in the Campi Flegrei area; seismic index = 2; presence of cavities. Low aquifer vulnerability; debris flows in the pyroclastic deposits and flysch, rock fall; seismic index = 3. Medium aquifer vulnerability; medium volcanic hazard in the Somma-Vesuvio area and medium-high in the Campi Flegrei area; seismic index = 2; presence of cavities Medium aquifer vulnerability; tuff landslide; seismic index = 3 Medium aquifer vulnerability; falls along the deepening valleys; low volcanic hazard in the Roccarainola municipality; seismic index = 2 except for the Sorrento Peninsula zones characterized by a seismic index= 3; presence of cavities Medium aquifer vulnerability; debris flow in the pyroclastic deposits and rock fall; medium volcanic hazard in the Somma-Vesuvio area and low volcanic hazard in the Sorrento Peninsula; seismic index = 2 except for the Sorrento Peninsula zones characterized by a seismic index= 3; presence of cavities Medium aquifer vulnerability; debris flow in the pyroclastic deposits, rock fall and complex landslide in flysch; seismic index = 3 Medium aquifer vulnerability; erosional and/or solid transport events, high volcanic hazard; seismic index = 2 Medium aquifer vulnerability; debris flow in the pyroclastic deposits and tuff fall; medium-high volcanic hazard in the Campi Flegrei area; seismic index = 2; presence of cavities. Medium aquifer vulnerability; debris flow in the pyroclastic deposits and flysch, rock fall; seismic index = 3 24 Tuff landslide and lava fall; seismic index = 2; presence of cavities 25 erosional and/or solid transport events; seismic index = 2 26 debris flow in the pyroclastic deposits and tuff fall; seismic index = 2; presence of cavities Tab.3 Vulnerability classes description Fourth, data in the Physiographic Units map and in the Integrated vulnerability map have been used to generate the Geological Zones map where the Naples Province area has been subdivide in 22 Geological Zones (FIG. 4). 7 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal Fig. 4: Geological Zones map The adopted model used to define Geological Zones has had the main aim to avoid the excessive territorial subdivision. This result has been obtained using two different principles: a) Physiographic Units as geographic element which allowed us to subdivide the landscape and b) the attribute data associated to the integrated vulnerability and in the Geomorphological maps to characterise the study area. The information associated to each Geological Zone is the sum of total data available, for example the “GZ15” Geological Zone has been described as follow: the GZ15 correspond to the main part of the southern sector of the Somma-Vesuvio volcano and it is constituted by lava and pyroclastic deposits covering an elevation range of 100-600 m. This zone is characterized by a good permeability, in areas where the lava deposits are well exposed, and by a variable permeability in areas where are exposed the pyroclastic deposits. This zone is characterized by solid transport events, medium-high aquifer vulnerability, high volcanic vulnerability and the presence of cavities. SETTLEMENT AND LANDSCAPE The transformation of the Naples province area, in second half of last century, with the urban and building increase lumped to the bad quality of the urbanized areas and to alteration and erosion of environment resources caused a critical condition in relation between installing system and landscape, or rather the crisis of relations system among different territorial and landscape components (geomorphological, vegetational and settling). In last ten-year period of last century built areas in different province zones caused suburban settlement saturation and a building increase in an agricultural context. The Naples province territory is formed by extended built areas and by an intense settling diffusion in extra urban territory; for this reason it is important an analysis of built areas to estimate elements that determine the landscape quality and to built cognitive schemes for landscape planning. This analysis helps to recognize territorial qualities (integrity, compromission, degradation) and to gain elements for next location of critical and vulnerable conditions. 8 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal So the studies are based on two main topics: the built areas peculiarities and the landscape components articulation. Morphology, density and settlement analysis of built areas produced a cartographic interpretation of different typologies. Morphology and density analysis (FIG. 5a, 5b) – as areas coverage percentage – of today built areas, and consequent interpretative elaborations, form a propedeutic study to location and valuation of the landscape nature. The aim of this study aim is to distinguish territorial limits in relation to main built areas settling characters by forming data levels for next studies to integrate the PTCP with landscape quality subjects and to determine the Landscape Units and pertinent tutelage and requalification doctrine. LEGENDA Confini provinciali Articolazione del territorio in rapporto alle tipologie insediative: AU - Aree urbane e insediamenti minori con tessuto prevalentemente continuo AU 1 - Area urbana centrale e aree urbane periferiche di Napoli anche comprensive di zone periferiche dei centri limitrofi a cui sono connesse. AU 2 - Aree urbane e insediamenti prevalentemente densi e compatti del Giuglianese, dell’area a nord di Napoli, dell’area Acerra-Pomigliano-Scisciano, del Nolano, del Vesuviano interno e costiero, dell’area stabiese AU3 - Insediamenti urbani dell’area flegrea. AU4 - Insediamenti urbani della penisola Sorrentina AE R- Aree di recente edificazione in espansione agli insediamenti urbani cui sono generalmente almeno parzialmente relazionate AER 1 - Aree in prevalenza di recente espansione residenziale con edificato/impianto parzialmente connesso all’area urbana principale AER 2 – Aree edificate non sempre fisicamente connesse in espansione ai centri urbani in ambiti fortemente caratterizzati sotto il profilo morfologico AEC - Aree interessate da recente edificazione e di rilevante estensione che si estendono in modo continuo tra più insediamenti, comprensive di spazi agricoli anche estesi AEC1 - Aree dell’area flegrea sud-occidentale in prevalenza di recente edificazione in espansione agli insediamenti urbani, caratterizzate in generale dalla continuità dell’edificato e da spazi agricoli interclusi AEC 2 - Aree di recente edificazione in espansione agli insediamenti urbani, prevalentemente di significativa estensione, che si estendono in modo continuo tra più insediamenti AEC 3 – Fasce edificate lungo la viabilità principale di collegamento tra i centri, in contesto non urbanizzato AGG – Aggregati edilizi di recente formazione, in prevalenza di edilizia residenziale, presenti in contesto agricolo AGG1 - Aggregati edilizi di recente formazione presenti in contesto agricolo con un’estensione anche consistente e/o un elevato grado di copertura edilizia AGG2 - Aree edificate adiacenti al Lago Patria e del litorale giuglianese, con caratterizzazione anche turistica AGG3 - Fasce edificate lungo la viabilità territoriale e locale in contesto agricolo AGG4 – Aggregati edilizi presenti in ambiti fortemente caratterizzati sotto il profilo morfologico ADI- ED- Aree agricole caratterizzate da dispersione edilizia in prevalenza con elevata densità ADI-ED 1- Aree agricole in prevalenza caratterizzate significativa estensione e di edilizia sparsa. dalla presenza di aggregati anche di ADI-ED 2 - Aree agricole con diffusa presenza di aggregati edilizi e di edilizia sparsa distribuiti prevalentemente lungo la viabilità principale e secondaria. ADI-ED 3 - Aree agricole con accentuata presenza di aggregati edilizi, in generale di contenuta estensione e prevalentemente con morfologia lineare, e di edilizia sparsa. ADI-ED 4 - Zone agricole terrazzate dell’ambito collinare nord-orientale della penisola sorrentina con presenza significativa di edilizia sparsa o piccoli aggregati. ADI - BD - Aree agricole caratterizzate da dispersione insediativa in densità prevalenza con bassa ADI-BD 1 - Aree agricole caratterizzate dalla presenza diffusa di aggregati, in prevalenza di contenuta estensione ADI-BD 2– Aree agricole dei rilievi dell’area flegrea con presenza di aggregati e edilizia sparsa. ADI-BD 3- Aree agricole con edilizia sparsa e piccoli aggregati nell’area a nord di Napoli, nell’area Acerra-Pomigliano-Scisciano, nell’area nolana, nell’ area vesuviana interna e nell’area boschese. AD-BD 4 - Aree agricole collinari della penisola sorrentina con presenza di contentuti aggregati edilizi e di edilizia diffusa AA- Aree agricole caratterizzate dall’assenza o dalla scarsa presenza di edilizia residenziale e di manufatti con altra destinazione. AA1 - Aree agricole in prevalenza del territorio aperto o ad esso connesse caratterizzate dall’assenza o da una scarsa presenza di aggregati e di edilizia. AA2 - Aree agricole caratterizzate dall’assenza o dalla scarsa presenza di piccoli aggregati e di edilizia sparsa. AA3 – Aree agricole caratterizzate dall’assenza o da una contenuta presenza edilizia in contesto fortemente caratterizzato sotto il profilo morfologico. AA4 - Aree agricole, anche di significativa estensione, intercluse negli insediamenti urbani e nelle aree di recente espansione urbana. SPIN - Spazi di prevalente interesse naturalistico SPIN 1 - Aree prevalentemente montuose o collinari di elevato interesse naturalistico caratterizzati dall’assenza o dalla scarsa presenza di episodi edilizi; spiagge e coste rocciose. SPIN 2 – Aree di interesse naturalistico con contenuta presenza edilizia SPIN 3 - Fasce perilacuali caratterizzate da rada presenza di manufatti, con destinazione mista, e spazi agricoli. SPIN 4 - Fasce dei corsi d’acqua e dei valloni ed aree agricole adiacenti, a volte intercluse in aree edificate. SPIN 5– Ambiti costieri con specifica caratterizzazione. AS - Aree specialistiche IND-1: Insediamenti industriali IND-2 - Area industriale dismessa di cui è programmata la riconversione AP - Aree portuali AEROP – Aeroporto SP – Aree, edificate o meno, di rilevante e estensione e/o in territorio extraurbano, con destinazione specialistica M - Aree militari ARCH- aree archeologiche CAVE ´ N.B. Per quanto riguarda i caratteri distintivi si veda la Relazione allegata Fig. 5a: Morphology and density analysis: interpretation of the different territorial typologies Naples continental territory (extract) 9 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal A preliminary study on landscape components to identify its structural elements has been done by considering both installation system analysis results and environment peculiarity (Fig. 6). The research, based on European Convention landscape definition, lays stress on territorial physics structure, forms peculiarities and nature, recognizes relations between different territorial components and reads how these elements are used and received. The research is result of combination between main territorial and landscape elements and interpretation of formal aspects and perceptive characters. 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Pietro / rocce / elevata pendenza 4- Punta della Scrofa / fondale lontano / sequenza 5- Lacco Ameno / Il Fungo / scoglio / emergenza visiva 6- Punta di Monte Vico / fondale lontano / sequenza 7- Baia di San Montaro / versante ad elevata pendenza / rocce 8- Punta Caruso / promontorio / fondale 9- Punta del Soccorso 10- Punta Imperatore / rocce / elevata pendenza 11- Punta Chiarito 12- Isolotto di Sant'Angelo 13- Spiaggia dei Maronti e Cava Scura 14- Scogli di S. Anna e spiaggia Cartaromana / rocce / elevata pendenza 15- Isolotto di Vivara 16- Punta di Socciaro 17- Punta di Pizzico 18- Promontorio di S. Margherita 19- Altura di Terra Murata ELEMENTI EMERGENTI ECCEZIONALI DELL'AMBITO COSTRUITO 1- Castello e ponte aragonese 2- Chiesa di S. Pietro 3- Faro 4- Chiesa di S. Restituta 5- Chiesa di Maria SS. di Montevergine 6- Torrione 7- S. Maria del Soccorso 8- Faro 9- Masseria dell'Arbusto / museo 10- Chiesa di S. Maria del Monte 11- Faro di Punta Pioppeto 12- Acropoli di Terra Murata . ! h 4 # torri e mura di fortificazione ELEMENTI LINEARI DI EMERGENZA PERCETTIVA / MARGINI 1- fasce boscate di margine all'edificato 2- margine / versante boscato - insediamenti (Monte Epomeo - Monte Rotaro - Lacco Ameno Casamicciola) 3- incisioni idrografiche (Barano - Serrara Fontana) 4- versante ad elevata pendenza / rocce - mare (scarrupata di Barano) 5- Punta Imperatore - Spiaggia di Citara 13 h 11 elementi emergenti caratterizzanti l'insieme / centri di attenzione 13 h fondali Fig. 5b: Morphology and density analysis: interpretation of the different territorial typologies Ischia LEGENDA IS/SPIN – SPAZI DI PREVALENTE INTERESSE NATURALISTICO IS/SPIN1 monte Solaro - area ad alta naturalità con vegetazione rada e morfologia complessa con vette isolate (Monte Solaro, Monte Cappello, Monte S.Maria), conche di dimensione ridotte (conca dell'Alginola), ripidi versanti che individuano forti margini caratterizzati dall'alternarsi di rocce e cespugliato, aree boscate circoscritte verso le parti terminali a margine delle aree agricole e degli insediamenti IS/SPIN2 costa occidentale (Sentiero dei Fortini); costa caratterizzata dall'alternarsi di stretti promontori e baie profonde; carattere prevalentemente naturale con aree cespugliate e boscate nelle zone più vicine alla costa; prevalenza del paesaggio agrario nelle zone più interne con limitate zone boscate; bassa presenza antropica: si individuano case isolate, prevalentemente ville in prossimità della costa, e piccoli aggregati insediativi nelle aree agricole e lungo la viabilità secondaria perpendicolare alla costa. IS/SPIN3 costa sud (punta Marmolata, punta Ventroso, scoglio delle Sirene); costa alta e frastagliata caratterizzata da ripide pareti rocciose. Totale assenza antropica IS/SPIN4 costa orientale (Monte S.Michele, Salto di Tiberio, Punta Massullo, Faraglioni); costa alta e articolata caratterizzata da baie profonde, dalla presenza di aree cespugliate e boscate. Si caratterizza per la scarsa presenza antropica: sono presenti ville isolate nell'area compresa tra punta Tragara e punta Massullo IS/SPIN5 costa nord-ovest (grotta Azzurra, Bagni di Tiberio); area di costa poco articolata caratterizzata da ripide pareti rocciose e, nelle aree più interne, dalla presenza di aree boscate; bassa presenza antropica con ville isolate e un piccolo aggregato in prossimità della grotta Azzurra IS/ADI – AREE AGRICOLE CON PRESENZA DIFFUSA DI EDIFICATO CARATTERIZZATO DA BASSA DENSITA’ IS/ADI1 Anacapri-Damecuta - aree di edificazione recente in un contesto prevalentemente agricolo; l'edificato caratterizzato in prevalenza da tipologie di case isolate su lotto segue l'andamento dei rilievi e si relaziona solo a tratti ai tracciati viari di tipo locale. Presenza di aggregati edilizi recenti poco coerenti con il contesto ambientale IS/ADI2 Anacapri-Migliara/Pino - aree di edificazione recente in un contesto prevalentemente agricolo e fortemente caratterizzato dal punto di vista paesaggistico-ambientale; gli insediamenti, legati solo in parte alla coltura agricola e caratterizzati da tipologie di case isolate su lotto, sono articolati su terrazzamenti lungo la viabilità principale IS/AU – AREE URBANE E INSEDIAMENTI MINORI IS/AU1 Anacapri - tessuti storici strutturati per aggregati di piccole dimensioni con caratteri tipo-morfologici complessi e impianto viario estremamente articolato; elevati valori storico-architettonici (nuclei di Le Boffe e di Pastena); presenza significativa e caratterizzante di aree agricole intercluse IS/AU2 Capri - tessuti storici caratterizzati da un'area centrale compatta e da connessioni diffuse lungo la viabilità principale; dominanza di alcune emergenze storiche e monumentali; presenza significativa di aree boscate e agricole intercluse nell'edificato IS/AU3 Marina Grande - area caratterizzata da un nucleo di aggregazione compatta lungo la costa (tessuti storici stratificati di Marina Grande) e da addensamenti dell'edificato, prevalentemente di recente costruzione, lungo la viabilità di collegamento tra i centri; presenza diffusa di aree coltivate e boscate intercluse nell'edificato IS/AU4 Marina Piccola - area caratterizzata da un piccolo nucleo storico lungo la costa e da insediamenti, prevalentemente di recente edificazione, caratterizzati da tipologie di case isolate su lotto disposti lungo le curve di livello; presenza significativa di aree boscate IS/AER – AREE DI EDIFICAZIONE RECENTE IS/AER Capri - aree in prevalenza di edificazione recente articolate lungo la viabilità di collegamento al nucleo centrale e caratterizzata da edificazione residenziale rada (ville) e dalla presenza di attività ricettive. Presenza significativa di aree boscate e agricole intercluse IS/AP – AREE PORTUALI IS/ARCH – AREE ARCHEOLOGICHE AREE MARINE VINCOLATE VIABILITA’ PRINCIPALE Fig. 6: Landscape components articulation Capri 10 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal LEVEL OF BIODIVERSITY OF RURAL AREAS. From the land use map edited by the Regione Campania in 2002 [10], in the Naples Province 5 levels of biodiversity were identified. Very low level (0) was ascribed to the areas covered by greenhouses which are characterized by the maximum level of exclusion of species (microbia, flora and fauna) different from that cultivated. The relationships of these areas with the natural environment (climate, biosphere, energy and water fluxes) are minimized and the chemical inputs are maximized. A low level (1) of biodiversity was ascribed to the area used for open field vegetable production, industrial crops (mainly tobacco) and cereals (mainly corn). In these cropping systems there is a certain level of presence of extraneous species (i.e. weeds and natural flora, microfauna) also if they are subjected to chemical and mechanical inputs (soil tillage, mineral fertilizers, pesticides). A medium level (2) of biodiversity was ascribed to the areas characterized by more high degree of naturality, mainly represented by land used with orchards (peaches, apricots, peers, apples, hazelnuts). Also if these cropping systems are intensively managed (i.e. many treatments with pesticides), the presence of useful insects (i.e. bees), birds and little rodents and cover crops between the rows for allowing the access to the fields during the rainy periods, are very spread. Besides the cropping period of these species is sufficiently prolonged for allowing a certain equilibrium between the external inputs and the developments of natural species (i.e. natural flora and soil microbia) also thanks to a strong reduction of tillage intensity and frequency. The chemical and energetic inputs are not applied during all the year, but is limited to the growth periods (usually april-september). A high level (3) of biodiversity was ascribed to the areas covered by extensive cropping systems which have a minimum environmental impact: hazelnuts, olive, grape citrus and intercrops and complex cropping systems. Very important are the soil tillage systems and layouts of these lands which are often in hilly slopes since they allow to reduce soil degradation and erosion (i.e. terraces of olive and lemons in Sorrento coast, or of grape in Vesuvius slopes). In the complex cropping systems, often many different crops (herbaceous and arboreous) are present at the same time and also natural flora is tolerated. Chemical and mechanical inputs are often limited by the geomorphological conditions. In this category also natural areas with recent reforestation or degradated for different reasons (i.e. forest fires, mines,…) were included. The maximum level (4) of biodiversity was attributed to all the natural areas (woods, shrubs,…) and to the cropping systems in which the farmers are almost exclusively harvesters, since the chemical and mechanical inputs are very exceptional (i.e. permanent meadows, pastures, chestnut woods). From the analysis of the cropping systems in the Naples province (Fig. 7), it rises the areas with a level 0 of biodiversity are not widespread in the Naples Province, but are concentrated in the Northern Part (Acerra, Caivano and Afragola), in the sea side of Vesuvian coast (Ercolano, Torre del Greco), in the coastal area of the Sarno river plain (Poggiomarino, Boscoreale, Sant’Antonio Abate, Santa Maria la Carità and Pompei). Cropping systems with a low level (1) of biodiversity, mainly represented by horticultural crops, are concentrated in 2 areas of the Province: the northern part (Acerra, Marigliano, Nola, San Vitaliano e Pomigliano) and the coastal area of the Sarno river plain. There two areas are also characterized by a wide presence of the aforesaid greenhouses, since they suffer a very strong anthropic impact. The areas with a medium level (2) of biodiversity, mainly covered by orchards, are concentrated in the North-West part (Giugliano in Campania, Qualiano, Villaricca, Quarto, Marano e Sant’Antimo) where mainly peaches are cultivated, and in the plain at East of the Vesuvius, where apricots predominated (Sant’Anastasia, Poggiomarino and Casamarciano). These last areas link other areas very important from a naturalistic point of view (Campi Flegrei, Vesuvius and the woods of Appennino). The areas with a high level (3) of biodiversity, mainly covered by olive, grape and citrus orchards are spread along the Sorrento Coast, around the Vesuvius (Trecase e Boscotrecase) where apricots and hazelnuts predominate, and spread also if not continuous in the North-East (Nola), in Campi Flegrei and in the Isles. The areas with a very high level (4) of biodiversity are concentrated in three large areas: the first link the Isle of Ischia to the Appennino woods (from South-West to North East), passing trough the coastal dunes, the parks and protected areas of Campi Flegrei and of the Naples City Hills; the second around the Vesuvius Vulcano in the central part of the Province; the third along the Sorrento Coast, from Capri Isle to the Appennino woods. It is important to notice that in these three areas are concentrated the highest number of protected areas of the Naples Province. 11 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal 4. very high 3. high 2. medium 1. low 0. very low Fig. 7: Levels of Biodiversity of natural and cropping systems in the Province of Naples. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS The study for location of Landscape Units on provincial scale, is based on an integrated territorial reading with consideration of specific territorial characters and relations between anthropical and natural components, that have been analyzed in previous step. In order to determine Landscape Units, in accordance with regional and national criteria, a first hypothesis has been done to divide provincial territory in areas recognizable for different characteristics – hydrogeomorphological, vegetational and agrarian, historical-cultural and settling, perceptive – which produce territorial and landscape schemes as a synthesis of relations between them. Studies and researches of this step produced this territorial articulation with reference to an interpretation of Landscape Units defined as “Ambito caratterizzato da specifici sistemi di relazioni ecologiche, percettive, storiche, culturali e funzionali tra componenti eterogenee, che gli conferiscono un’immagine ed un’identità distinte e riconoscibili” [7], [“Sphere characterized by specific systems of ecological, perceptive, historical, cultural, functional relations between heterogeneous components, which give it distinct and recognizable imagine and identity”]. A first interpretative synthesis of environmental and landscape characters has produced provincial territory articulation in 20 areas (17 areas in the continental territory and 3 areas in the islands). This synthesis will be examined closely to integrate some cognitive aspects and to value single components roles and their incidence level in landscape configurations production. The procedure, based on developed analysis, to individuate areas concerns: consideration of physiographical models as a standard reference; location of macro-areas recognizable for specific characters and relation systems concerning every single reading section; comparison of territorial articulations fixed for each field that, on ground of most significant components and relations to confer recognizable identificational characters, consents areas locations. Reassembling different information and considerations (geological, agronomical, pedological, settling analysis) has produced initial synthetic valuations and a first provincial territory articulation based on territorial peculiarities deriving from different ecological, historical, settling, perceptive relation systems. 12 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal 4 10 9 17 8 14 11 5 7 16 3 6 1 12 15 20 13 20 19 2 landscape units limits 18 1 2 3 4.5.6 7 8 9 10 VESUVIO PENISOLA SORRENTINA CAMPI FLEGREI AREE PEDEMONTANE DELL’APPENINO CAMPANO (ROCCARAINOLA, VISCIANO, CARBONARA DI NOLA, PALMA CAMPANIA) CAPODIMONTE LITORALE DOMIZIO AREA GIUGLIANESE PIANA ACERRANA 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 PIANA VESUVIANA ESI VESUVIO AREA STABIESE NORD-VESUVIO FASCIA VESUVIANA COSTIERA AREA NAPOLETANA COMUNI A NORD DI NAPOLI CAPRI ISCHIA PROCIDA E VIVARA Fig. 8a: Territorial articulation to locate the landscape units The map “Articolazione del territorio per la individuazione delle unità di paesaggio“ [“Territorial articulation to locate the landscape unities“] (FIG.8a) is a starting point to locate Landscape Unit; it consists of graphic map (1:75000 scale), in which provincial territory is subdivided in twenty areas and of an enclosure with cards that reports: general area characters; landscape characters pertinent to geomorphology, hydrographical net, vegetation, agrarian territory; settling and historical resources system; landscape main characters; location areas hypothesis for landscape models. 13 14TH European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography | September 9-13, 2005 | Tomar, Portugal About the islands, a further landscape division in different areas has presented in figure 8b. 8 3a 1b 4 4a 6 3 1a 9b 9 7 6a 8a 9a 1b 1 5 6b 6a 6b 1a 2 3b Fig. 8b: Territorial articulation to locate the landscape units: Capri Island An integrated reading with researches in different fields is done for each area, with description of recurrent environment conditions, of different islands landscape kinds and identification of structural and characteristic elements which define its specific identity. 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AUTHORS INFORMATION CAIAZZO STEFANIA [email protected], Dipartimento di Urbanistica University of Napoli Federico II ALBERICO INES [email protected] C.I.R.AM (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Ambiente) University of Napoli Federico II APREDA IMMA [email protected] Dipartimento di Urbanistica University of Napoli Federico II DAL PIAZ ALESSANDRO [email protected] Dipartimento di Urbanistica University of Napoli Federico II FAGNANO MASSIMO [email protected] Dipartimento di Ingegneria Agraria e Agronomia University of Napoli Federico II University of Napoli Federico II 15