Abstract
Since the beginning of the industrial era, humans have been modifying the chemical composition and physical properties of the atmosphere, favoring an increase in the concentration of gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrogen oxide (N2O) well beyond the limits never previously exceeded [1]. If there is still uncertainty in the world and in some cases scepticism about the real extent of environmental or climate change, the increase in the concentration of these gases shows that humans are actually changing, heavily, the environment [2]. Growing disquiet of the scientific community about phenomena linked to climate modification and land use changes, to which they are often due or at least related, has led to the need to strengthen the levels of information and develop methodologies capable of constituting an adequate framework to support policies for territorial planning and land use transformation that can boast a holistic view of services and functions that are indispensable and/or desirable for human wellbeing. It is precisely in this context that this work is aimed at providing an estimate of the amount of carbon stored within the boundaries of the Basilicata region, no longer referring to it as an estimated quantity for its own sake, but as an assessment of a service provided by ecosystems for the regulation of the global climate that has gained increasing strength over the last 50 years [3].
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431/1985 Law, known as the Galasso Law, introduced a series of restrictions aimed at safeguarding landscape and environmental heritage and was then integrated into the still in force “Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape”.
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Considering molecular weights of oxygen and carbon, respectively equal to 15,999 and 12,011, it results that to one ton of carbon corresponds about 3,67 tons of carbon dioxide.
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CARBOITALY is a research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research within the framework of the Special Supplementary Fund for Research (FISR), the Strategic Programme for Sustainable Development and Climate Change, with the main objective of quantifying the extent of net carbon sequestration by forest and agricultural ecosystems at national level.
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This research has been supported by the Environmental Observatory Foundation of Basilicata Region (FARBAS).
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Mazzariello, A., Pilogallo, A., Scorza, F., Murgante, B., Las Casas, G. (2018). Carbon Stock as an Indicator for the Estimation of Anthropic Pressure on Territorial Components. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2018. ICCSA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10964. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95174-4_53
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