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Urban sprawl and the ‘olive’ landscape: sustainable land management for ‘crisis’ cities

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Dispersed urbanization has expanded into rural land worldwide. The present work focused on the Athens’ metropolitan area, the capital of Greece, discussing the potential role of a typical rural Mediterranean landscape dominated by olive groves, in urban containment and peri-urban conservation of biodiversity and local traditions. Having a great cultural, culinary and aesthetic importance, olive groves characterize Mediterranean peri-urban landscapes in a distinctive way. This study identifies processes of urban dispersion and changes in the ‘olive landscape’ in the study area, proposing new ideas for a sustainable land management in metropolitan contexts that have recently undergone processes of territorial transformation toward urban sprawl, under the effect of socioeconomic disturbances, including economic crisis.

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    Massimo Cecchini, Ilaria Zambon & Andrea Colantoni

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Cecchini, M., Zambon, I., Pontrandolfi, A. et al. Urban sprawl and the ‘olive’ landscape: sustainable land management for ‘crisis’ cities. GeoJournal 84, 237–255 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-018-9848-5

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