U.S.-Italy Cooperative Research: Comparative International Research on Agricultural Land-Use History and Forest Management Practices in Italy and the United States

波特兰州立大学的吉尔·拉茨和意大利佛罗伦萨大学的毛罗·阿格诺莱蒂获得了这一为期两年的奖项，以表彰美国和意大利在农业土地利用历史和森林管理方面的合作。这项研究将包括对保护遗址的政策和法律文书进行比较研究，以及评估可持续林业和农业的机会和总体规划。特别是，这项研究将侧重于利用地理信息系统(GIS)技术构建斯潘诺奇亚庄园的多用途土地利用地图，将其与马什-比林斯-洛克菲勒(MBR)国家历史公园进行比较，并就可能的保护方案提出建议。这位美国研究人员将森林公园可持续管理方面的专业知识带到了这次合作中，重点放在已经恢复的历史土地利用模式和森林管理实践上。与之相辅相成的是意大利在建立地形数据库和领土数字模型、1832年托斯卡纳地籍数字化和航空和遥感信息以及检查航空解译的实地工作方面的专门知识。这项研究的结果有望通过衡量历史信息的影响，为当代森林认证政策做出贡献。预计这些成果将特别有助于随后对可持续森林管理战略进行分析、比较和向世界各地广大政策管理者和土地所有者传播。

0132684LatzThis two-year award for US-Italy collaboration on comparative research on agricultural land-use history and forest management involves Gil Latz of Portland State University and Mauro Agnoletti of the University of Florence, Italy. The research will include comparative study of policies and legal instruments for conserving sites, and evaluation of opportunities and master planning for sustainable forestry and agriculture. In particular, the research will focus on Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques for construction of a multipurpose land-use map of the Spanocchia estate and its comparison to the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller (MBR) National Historical Park, and on proposals for possible conservation options. The US researcher brings to this collaboration expertise in sustainable management of forest parks, focusing on historic land-use patterns and forest management practices that have been restored. This is complemented by Italian expertise in the creation of a topographic database and a digital model of the territory, digitization of the Tuscan Cadastre of 1832 and aerial and remote sensing information, and field work to check aerial interpretations. The results of this research are expected to contribute to contemporary forest certification policy, by gauging the impact of historical information. These results are expected to be particularly useful to subsequent analysis, comparison, and dissemination of strategies for sustainable forest management to a broad public of policy managers and landowners throughout the world.