LANDSCAPE, SOILS AND QUALITY OF PRODUCTIONS

Researchers from CRISP deal investigations in the domain of land evaluation and in connecting landscale with quality of its agricultural productions. The undertaken approaches range from classics soil capability studies to advanced procedures of viticultural zoning. In such contexts, the whole chain of the evaluation is made within the CRISP laboratories, from soil survey (sampling […]

RESEARCH ON CONTAMINATED SOILS

The term “contaminated site” refers to all those areas in which, following previous or current human activities, it is detected an alteration of the qualitative characteristics of soil, subsoil and groundwater that pose a risk to human health. The Italian legislation on remediation of contaminated sites, introduced by the Italian Decree D.M. 471/99, has been […]

SOIL FORENSICS

Soil Forensics is the study of the soil – which includes soil morphology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics and geophysics coupled with soil mapping – to answer legal questions and support the investigation at the crime scene. Soil description and interpretation can be used to answer questions such as “What soil is?” “Where it came from?” and […]

SOILS IN MUSEUMS

CRISP devote special attention to the soil in terms of its cultural heritage value and living testimony of the past. Related to this soil function, CRISP carried out, among its activities, both pedoarchaeological research and the production of soil monoliths for museum exhibitions. The pedoarchaeological research studies the genesis, properties and characteristics of soils from […]

Climate change effects on the suitability of an agricultural area to maize cultivation: application of a new Hybrid Land Evaluation System

Antonello Bonfante, Eugenia Monaco, Silvia M. Alfieri, Francesca De Lorenzi, Piero Manna, Angelo Basile, Johan Bouma. 2015. Chapter Two – Climate Change Effects on the Suitability of an Agricultural Area to Maize Cultivation: Application of a New Hybrid Land Evaluation System, In: Donald L. Sparks, Editor(s), Advances in Agronomy, Academic Press, 2015, Volume 133, Pages […]