conceptualizing the land change transitions with a territorial approach

Conceptualizing the land

change transitionswith a territorial approach

Global Land Project

2nd Open Science Meeting

Berlin19 March 2014

Session 32Understanding farming

practices to rethink land

change transition

RIZZO D INRA SAD-ASTER (FRA)

1bibliography at http://bit.ly/GLP2014

PINTO-CORREIA TUniversidade de Évora (PRT)

KRISTENSEN LUniversity of Copenhagen (DNK)

MARRACCINI EInstitut for Life Sciences , SSA (ITA)

LARDON S

INRA & AgroParisTech, UMR 1273 Métafort (FRA)

D. RIZZO et al. | Conceptualizing land change transitionGLP OSM 2014 • Session 32 “Understanding farming practices to rethink land change transitions” | Berlin 19/03/2014

biblio at bit.ly/GLP2014 .02

Rural land & change transitions

Landspatial entity whose character is defined by human & natural

interaction at a given time (cf. FAO CGIAR 1997)

Land changewhen at least one of the

following is modified:

• shape

• cover/use

• practices

• tenure

• accessibility

…transition

in-between

urban/natural areas probably the places on

Earth where the most

important LCT are

occurring.

RURAL

observed past

desired future



Landscape agronomy

Benoît, Rizzo et al., 2012Landscape agronomy: a new field for addressing

agricultural landscape dynamics (Landsc. Ecol.)

a new field for addressing

agricultural landscape dynamics



Landscape as the arenawhere structural features and

social constriction converge

Pinto-Correia & Kristensen 2013Linking research to practice: The landscape as the basis for integrating

social and ecological perspectives of the rural (Landsc. Urban Plan.)



A common conceptual framework

Level of organization for

local actions in response

to wider global drivers

A contribution for going

“integrated”

TERRITORY



Thank you for the attention !

Davide RIZZO

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