In-Depth Monitoring of Anthropic Activities in the Puglia Region: What Is the Acceptable Compromise between Economic Activities and Environmental Protection?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- (1)
- to revise the calculation of biotope fragmentation by the road network, applied to coastal dunes;
- (2)
- to determine the elevation profile of the quarries from Sentinel-1 satellite images through Digital Elevation Model (DEM) generation.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Description of Study Areas
2.2. Dune’s Study Case with Anthropic Fragmentation of Biotopes
2.3. Quarry’s Study Case with Elevation Profile from DEM Generation
2.3.1. Pre-Processing
2.3.2. Processing
3. Results
3.1. Antropic Fragmentation of Biotipe into Dune Biotipe
3.2. Impacts of Anthropic Pressure Due to Quarry
4. Discussion
- waste which disappears every year;
- complaints about environmental offences managed by organised crime;
- verification of contamination.
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Binetti, M.S.; Campanale, C.; Uricchio, V.F.; Massarelli, C. In-Depth Monitoring of Anthropic Activities in the Puglia Region: What Is the Acceptable Compromise between Economic Activities and Environmental Protection? Sustainability 2023, 15, 8875. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118875
Binetti MS, Campanale C, Uricchio VF, Massarelli C. In-Depth Monitoring of Anthropic Activities in the Puglia Region: What Is the Acceptable Compromise between Economic Activities and Environmental Protection? Sustainability. 2023; 15(11):8875. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118875
Chicago/Turabian StyleBinetti, Maria Silvia, Claudia Campanale, Vito Felice Uricchio, and Carmine Massarelli. 2023. "In-Depth Monitoring of Anthropic Activities in the Puglia Region: What Is the Acceptable Compromise between Economic Activities and Environmental Protection?" Sustainability 15, no. 11: 8875. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118875