**Raffaele Pelorosso**

Raffaele Pelorosso is qualified as an Associate Professor by National Scientific Qualification in urban and landscape planning and design (Disciplinary Sector 08/F1) and agricultural, forest and biosystems engineering (Disciplinary Sector 07/C1). He has held several lectures in ecology, cartography, environmental and urban planning at Tuscia University. His main research interests include environmental modelling, performance-based urban planning, urban stormwater and climate regulation by means of green and grey infrastructure, low-entropy systems, climate adaptation, nature-based solutions and ecosystem services, landscape perception and participatory planning, land use/land cover changes, rural and peri-urban landscapes, environmental impact assessment, and landscape connectivity. He is the author of more than 100 scientific works and he has peer-reviewed for many international journals, such as *Land Use Policy*, *Landscape and Urban Planning*, *Frontiers in Built Environment*, *European Planning Studies*, *Habitat International*, *Journal of Cleaner Production*.

#### *Article* **Land Take and Landslide Hazard: Spatial Assessment and Policy Implications from a Study Concerning Sardinia**

**Federica Isola, Sabrina Lai, Federica Leone \* and Corrado Zoppi**

> Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Architecture-University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy

**\*** Correspondence: federicaleone@unica.it

**Abstract:** Land take and soil sealing imply land cover transitions that may possibly result in decreased capacity to resist landslides; hence, this study focuses on the relations between land-taking processes and landslide hazard by addressing the following research question: "To what extent do land-taking processes increase landslide hazard?" The impact of land take is assessed through a regression model which relates the level of landslide hazard to a set of land cover variables which include artificialized land; that is, land taken up through urbanization processes, and a set of covariates that represent land cover types grouped in accordance with the LEAC (land and ecosystem accounting) classification. This methodological approach is implemented into the spatial context of Sardinia, an insular Italian region, and shows that not only the amount of taken up artificialized land, but also other types of land covers, are likely to increase the magnitude of landslide hazard. A set of implications concerning planning policies related to land cover and land cover transitions are discussed in the concluding section, where policy recommendations are identified in order to mitigate the impacts of land cover transitions on landslide hazards.

**Keywords:** land take; landslide hazard; land cover change
