Environment: Ispra, cement has canceled 20% coast Italy – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

16:08 May 6, 2015

(AGI) – Milan, May 6 . – Nearly 20 percent of the coastal Italian, that ‘over 500 square kilometers, the equivalent of the entire Sardinian coast, and’ lost irretrievably. It had been waterproofed 19.4 percent of land between 0-300 meters away from the coast and almost 16 percent between 300-1000 meters.
Also swept away 34 thousand hectares within areas protected, 9 percent of the areas in danger ‘hydraulic and 5 percent of the banks of rivers and lakes. Cement and ‘really gone over invading even 2 percent of areas considered non-consumable. A map of the boot “artificial covering” and ‘was the ISPRA who presented this morning in Milan, during the conference side all’EXPO2015 “We recover land”, the Report on the Consumption of Soil 2015 Italy 2014 still loses ground, although more ‘slowly: estimates lead to 7 percent the percentage of soil directly waterproofed (the 158 percent in more’ compared to the ’50s) and more than 50 percent the territory that, even if not directly involved , it suffers the devastating impacts. It slows the speed ‘of consumption, between 2008 and 2013, and travels at an average of 6.7 m2 per second. The new estimates confirm the loss of the prevailing agricultural cultivated areas (60 percent), urban (22 percent) and natural earths plant and not (19 percent). We cementificando also some of the land more ‘productive in the world, as the Po Valley, where consumption and’ rose to 12 percent.
Still, in just one year, more than 100,000 people lost their chance ‘to feed with quality products ‘Italian.
are suburbs and areas of low density’ areas where drug use and ‘grew more’ fast. Cities ‘continue to expand disorderly (urban sprawl) exposing more and more’ to landslide risk. There are provinces, like Catanzaro, where more than 90 percent of the urban and ‘low density’.
In the ranking of the regions’ most ‘consumed’, confirmed at the top of Lombardy and Veneto (about 10 per cent ), while the Liguria are the black mesh cover territory within the 300 meters from the coast (40 percent), the percentage of land consumed within 150 meters from water bodies and one of the areas in danger ‘hydraulic, now sealed (the 30 percent). Among the areas at risk and the hydraulic ‘instead of Emilia Romagna, with over 100,000 hectares, holds the record in terms of surfaces. Monza and Brianza, at the top of most provinces’ cemented, reaches 35 percent, while the provinces of Naples, Caserta, Milan and Turin exceed 50 percent, even reaching 60 percent. The all-time record, with 85 percent of the ground sealed, goes to the small town of Casavatore in Naples. Until 2013, the per capita value recorded a gradual increase, rising from 167 to 1950 m2 for every Italian, nearly 350 m2 in 2013. Estimates of 2014 show a slight decrease, mainly due to population growth, reaching a value per capita of 345 m2. The roads are a major cause of land degradation, representing in 2013 about 40 percent of the total land consumed (roads in agricultural areas 22.9 percent, urban 10.6 percent, 6.5 percent in areas of high environmental value). ISPRA has also made a first estimate of the change in carbon stocks due to land use. In five years (2008-2013), were issued 5 million tons of carbon, a release representing 0.22 percent of the entire stock stored in soil and plant biomass in 2008. Without considering the effects of urban sprawl, which causes a further increase in carbon emissions (as CO2), due to the inevitable dependence on transport, in particular passenger cars. (AGI) red / bn.