Taxonomic justification of the landscape factor in land use
- Garraín Cordero, Daniel
- Cebrián Tarrasón, David
- Vidal Nadal, Rosario
Editorial: Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO)
ISBN: 978-84-614-0185-7
Año de publicación: 2010
Páginas: 216-226
Congreso: Asociación española de ingenieria de proyectos. AEIPRO.International Congress on Project Engineering (13. 2009. null)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
Land use by human beings is the main direct cause of many of the impacts brought about by production systems. The term land use has traditionally been employed to refer to a classification of human activities that involve the modification of an area of land. In the field of LCA (Life-Cycle Assessment), this term or the impact of land use have been utilised to refer to environmental impacts due to occupation and physical transformation of areas of land. Some authors have carried out inventories of the methods that attempt to analyse and to evaluate this kind of impact. The general rule that they have followed in order to distinguish among the main impacts that land use entails has been to consider biodiversity and land fertility as the two aspects that are most badly damaged. In this article the justification for including a new factor is presented in order to analyse the regionalization of land use impact using a taxonomy based on the SUMO (Suggested Upper Merged Ontology).