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

[0132684 . Latz]这项为期两年的美国-意大利农业土地利用历史和森林管理比较研究合作奖的获得者是波特兰州立大学的Gil Latz和意大利佛罗伦萨大学的Mauro Agnoletti。这项研究将包括对保护地点的政策和法律文书进行比较研究，并评价可持续林业和农业的机会和总体规划。特别是，研究将集中于地理信息系统（GIS）技术，用于绘制斯帕诺奇亚庄园的多用途土地利用地图，并将其与马什-比林斯-洛克菲勒国家历史公园进行比较，并就可能的保护方案提出建议。这位美国研究人员为这次合作带来了森林公园可持续管理方面的专门知识，重点是历史上的土地利用模式和已经恢复的森林管理实践。此外，意大利还在创建地形数据库和领土数字模型、1832年托斯卡纳地籍数字化、航空和遥感信息以及检查航空解释的实地工作方面提供了专业知识。预期这项研究的结果将通过衡量历史资料的影响，对当代森林核证政策作出贡献。预期这些结果将特别有助于随后分析、比较可持续森林管理战略，并向全世界的政策管理人员和土地所有者等广大公众传播这些战略。

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.