Biodiversity protection funding preference: a case study of hotspot geoinformatics and digital governance for the Map of Italian Nature in the presence of multiple indicators of ecological value,ecological sensitivity and anthropic pressure for the Oltrepò Pavese and Ligurian-Emilian Apennine study area in Italy |
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Authors: | Angelo Pecci Ganapati Patil Orazio Rossi Pierfrancesca Rossi |
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Institution: | 1.Environmental Sciences Department,University of Parma,Parma,Italy;2.Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics, Department of Statistics,The Pennsylvania State University,University Park,USA;3.ARPA Lombardia,Milan,Italy |
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Abstract: | The environmental decision-maker is aware of the increasing difficulties in finding sufficient financial resources for nature
conservation. So he must focus his attention on ecological situations that more than the others merit considering and defending
because of elevated value but also because of risk for their intrinsic characteristics and for human pressure acting on them.
Usually an ecological scientist focuses his attention on the natural patches of the landscape, analyzing their peculiar ecological
traits forgetting that, even if we want to protect some environmental critical situations, this can be done only moving to
the administrative partition of the territory since the central and local environmental stakeholders have primary interest
in providing funds to those involved in those critical situations. The present work shows a methodological approach, consisting
of a set of statistical and geoinformational tools, considering both ecological and socio-demographical indicators. The goal
is not simply to give some general guidelines for environmental policies to the involved stakeholders but focuses more on
finding out which administrative local partitions in a study area are more worthy to receive urgently the priority funds for
biodiversity protection to face critical environmental situations often due to a combination of intrinsic ecological parameters
and external human pressure ones. Obtaining results that cover 5% of the Communes involved in the area seems to be a realistic
result that a decision-maker can support and fund. Methodologically and geospatial data analytically, the investigation offers
interesting challenges for surveillance geoinformatics of hotspot detection and prioritization, because of the presence of
multiple hotspots and multiple sets of multiple indicators. |
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