ABandonment and REbound: SOcietal views on landscape- and land-use change and their impacts on water and soils

Abstract

ABRESO addresses soil and water sustainability in landscapes undergoing transitions. Management and social-cultural changes create transitions, altering watershed properties in a manner that stakeholders may not understand or appreciate. Yet changes affect stakeholders, what they want to preserve or change, and their views of land management strategies. The general theme of this project, to occur in France, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States, is to determine actual and perceived effects of land use transitions on critical zone (CZ). Actual effects will consider biogeochemical cycles under changing inputs of altered land management. Perceived effects will consider stakeholder expectation, preference and evaluation of ecosystem services and disservices. We will investigate whether heterogeneity in perceptions depends on stakeholders’ characteristics (e.g., urban vs. rural, resident vs. visitor, etc.), and how change is framed across different spatial scales (e.g., local and watershed scale or beyond). Finally, we will examine associations between perceptions and support for land use change and management decisions.

More informations

• Article on newsletter CAI: “Cai e Cnr insieme per studiare l’abbandono della montagna”: https://www.loscarpone.cai.it/cai-e-cnr-studiare-abbandono-montagna/
• News on “snpambiente” site: https://www.snpambiente.it/2023/03/29/unindagine-sulla-percezione-dei-cambiamenti-delluso-del-suolo/
• Pictures album Abreso Meeting in Torino and Noasca (March 13-15, 2023):
  https://photos.app.goo.gl/PyRwGNUNPnSPRG768
  
• Compilation “ABRESO project’s All-Hands Meeting” November 2022: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_NfrZiF3jdjDln-BucnqVUiLd3_FuAw
• Italian Team slides presented November 14th 2022: https://www.ircres.cnr.it/images/abreso/Italy_-_Abreso_Fall_2022_Meeting_def2.pdf
• Abreso Social Sciences Video (work in progress):  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ljVugHgFzccwJuWvumZzHbnwfKucjqwB/view
• Presentation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcPGeJLoykI
• Kickoff Video: https://youtu.be/wFneBSB0zM8
• Event “Cacciatori di carbonio – come scovarlo in aria, suolo, foreste e praterie di montagna”. Il 30/09/2022 ore 16.00 – 19.00 Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa:
  https://www.cnr.it/it/evento/18128
• C4 Workshop climate change and carbon cycle (22-24 June 2022): “Combining bio-geochemistry, remote sensing and social sciences to assess the effects of land use change within the CZ framework:the ABRESO project”  https://ocloud.to.cnr.it/s/4oJJYSgmgQiQJB2