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LAND USE POLICY
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages 155-162Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.05.019
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Land use conversion; Territorial policies; Pen-urban agriculture; Farms
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In the past few years, urban growth has affected vast agricultural areas, especially in some European regions (EEA, 2006). In pen-urban areas, land consumption is particularly intense, exposing agriculture to the risk of land loss. Assuming the action of different factors, both exogenous and endogenous, on the agricultural system, the potential risk of land use conversion is measured by the Sensitivity Index of Agricultural Land (SIAL), an innovative tool for territorial analysis. In the following paper, the SIAL will be presented with an application for a metropolitan area. In this case study, the exogenous variables of urban proximity seem to be those most involved in the processes of conversion from agricultural to urban land use. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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