Avoiding social traps in the ecosystem stewardship: The Italian Fontanile lowland spring

Autor: Matteo Balderacchi, Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, David Kane, Alex Laini, Mattia Sanna, Marco Trevisan, Giovanni Lazzari, Andrea Giussani, Alessia Perego, Marco Acutis
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Conservation of Natural Resources
Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Filter strip
Water flow
Water supply
Buffer strip
010501 environmental sciences
Nitrate
01 natural sciences
irrigation
Settore AGR/13 - CHIMICA AGRARIA
Water Supply
Pesticide drift
Climate change
Environmental Chemistry
Agricultural productivity
Waste Management and Disposal
Irrigation
Leaching
Modeling
Pesticide
Vegetative filter strip
Agriculture
Eutrophication
Italy
Ecosystem
Natural Springs
Pollution
pesticide
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
2. Zero hunger
business.industry
Environmental engineering
Groundwater recharge
15. Life on land
6. Clean water
leaching
13. Climate action
Environmental science
business
Water resource management
Settore AGR/02 - AGRONOMIA E COLTIVAZIONI ERBACEE
Zdroj: Science of The Total Environment. 539:526-535
ISSN: 0048-9697
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.029
Popis: Fontanile is a Po Valley (Italy) quasi-natural lowland spring built in the middle age. This paper identifies options for the conservation of the Fontanile water dependent ecosystem, using scenarios and simulations, and exploring different policy options. Three modeling analysis have been performed: the first was carried out for estimating groundwater contamination and recharge from above, the second for evaluating the function of vegetative filter strip on the surface water quality and the last one for testing pesticide drift reduction due to the vegetative filter strip. Uncertainty characterization included climate change projections. Despite the nitrate concentration in water could favorite the eutrophication phenomena, this not occurs because of the low phosphate concentration in water and of the presence of arboreal shade. Therefore, the protection strategies must focus on sustaining desirable water quantity conditions. Water saving and conservation technologies that improve the agricultural productivity but reduce the Fontanile water flow and large buffer strips that have a limited efficacy due to the Fontanile hydrological settings can be judged as ecological traps. Inefficient irrigation systems, good agricultural practices, integrated pest management and arboreal filter strip can preserve the quality of those ecosystems.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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