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Technology and Engineering
- ISSN: 2333-2581
- Modern Environmental Science and Engineering
Landscape Project Can Limit Bionomics Dysfunction
Risk Factor vs. Premature Death Increase
Vittorio Ingegnoli1, and Elena Giglio2
1. Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, State University of Milan, Italy
2. Istituto Di Istruzione Superiore Allende-Custodi, Milano, Italy
Abstract: The most important “ecosystem service” is the preservation of human health, which is damaged, even in absence of pollution, when the landscape disorder is too elevated. To reach this goal, a landscape project has to follow new ecological criteria, derived from Landscape Bionomics (LB), sensu Ingegnoli [1].
This discipline recognizes “land units” as living entities, studying their physiology and pathology. These principles update even vegetation science as underlined by Ingegnoli and Pignatti [2] allowing to express complex estimations through other systemic landscape indicators. So, the ratio “green space/urbanisation”, too generic, is substituted with systemic models as HH/BTC (human habitat/vegetation land capacity). Following this method, we found in the district of Milan a clear increase of mortality rate MR correlated with the increase of landscape degradation.
A basilar ethological alarm process registers all the environmental alterations producing stress; so, landscape dysfunctions, even in absence of pollution, may attempt our health reducing our body defences. LB may help the landscape project to register the level of environmental alteration and to check the capacity to decrease degradations. Also territorial planning and strategic environmental assessment can be changed following landscape bionomics principles and methods to reach the goal of becoming strategic for environmental rehabilitation.
Key words: landscape bionomics, mortality rate/landscape alteration, landscape project, environmental dysfunction, premature death risk factor
