The present study investigates the relationship between land degradation and the evolution of the productive structure in Italy during the last 50 years (1960–2010). The objectives of the study are twofold: (i) to present and discuss an original analysis of the income–environment relationship in an economic-convergent and environmental–divergent country and (ii) to evaluate the impact of the (changing) productive structure and selected socio-demographic characteristics on the level of land vulnerability. The econometric analysis indicates that the relationship between GDP and land degradation across Italian provinces is completely reverted once we move from a cross-sectional analysis to panel estimates. While economic and environmental disparities between provinces go in the same direction, with richer provinces having lower levels of LD, over time the growth process increases LD with the economic structure acting as a significant variable.

Land degradation, economic growth and structural change: evidences from Italy / Esposito, Piero; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Perini, Luigi; Salvati, Luca. - In: ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 1387-585X. - (2016), pp. 431-448. [10.1007/s10668-015-9655-9]

Land degradation, economic growth and structural change: evidences from Italy

Fabrizio Patriarca;
2016

Abstract

The present study investigates the relationship between land degradation and the evolution of the productive structure in Italy during the last 50 years (1960–2010). The objectives of the study are twofold: (i) to present and discuss an original analysis of the income–environment relationship in an economic-convergent and environmental–divergent country and (ii) to evaluate the impact of the (changing) productive structure and selected socio-demographic characteristics on the level of land vulnerability. The econometric analysis indicates that the relationship between GDP and land degradation across Italian provinces is completely reverted once we move from a cross-sectional analysis to panel estimates. While economic and environmental disparities between provinces go in the same direction, with richer provinces having lower levels of LD, over time the growth process increases LD with the economic structure acting as a significant variable.
2016
27-mar-2015
431
448
Land degradation, economic growth and structural change: evidences from Italy / Esposito, Piero; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Perini, Luigi; Salvati, Luca. - In: ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 1387-585X. - (2016), pp. 431-448. [10.1007/s10668-015-9655-9]
Esposito, Piero; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Perini, Luigi; Salvati, Luca
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