When some landscape unit alters and shows pathological signs, we can speak of real landscape syndromes. A syndromic classification of landscape alterations or, better, of landscape units (LU) is an ordering regardless of their causes, and we will summarize it in this chapter. The study of pathology becomes essential, a discipline that is not easy to apply, as the meaning of pathology is inextricable from that of physiology. As Konrad Lorenz had underlined, in physiology, to understand a function, it is necessary to consider its alteration and vice versa in a continuous postponement of answers. We can present the equation of the general metastability of an LU; this is a very significant indicator capable of considering the information content of the LU about the flow of energy necessary for maintaining the state of order of the LU itself. An exceptionally high correlation between BTC and human habitat (HH) brings us to measure the capacity for self-regulation of a natural system (HH). This diagnostic model is essential to arrive at a preliminary overall evaluation of a landscape unit with accuracy and consequently to check both a state of fact and a land planning project. Moreover, the local BTC can be balanced by an element of pleasing naturalness: so, the distance of influence from it is fundamental. It is called ER (eco-bionomic range) or radius of ecological influence. Continued human fragmentation and alteration, due to the transformation of agricultural landscapes, seem to be the ‘criteria’ of the structuring of suburban landscapes, but leaves a chaotic mosaic of remnant patches or residual spots of different magnitudes and importance: sew these rags into fabric that performs an ecological sense is possible by the bionomic study of the remnant patches. To understand the relationship between the state of health and diseases of a land unit, checking the compatibility with the needs and the human health, and to develop criteria of therapeutic rehabilitation with regenerative function must become the new concept of sustainability, too; so, it can no longer be to manage the resources to postpone as much as possible their depletion! Therefore, the ecological services of anthropic plant formations are of crucial importance, while they are, at present, seriously insufficient in terms of prevention and health care. We can indicate that without the presence of natural forests, human habitats are intrinsically prevented from achieving adequate health protection.

Diagnosis of the Health of a Landscape

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2026年

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Vittorio Ingegnoli

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When some landscape unit alters and shows pathological signs, we can speak of real landscape syndromes. A syndromic classification of landscape alterations or, better, of landscape units (LU) is an ordering regardless of their causes, and we will summarize it in this chapter. The study of pathology becomes essential, a discipline that is not easy to apply, as the meaning of pathology is inextricable from that of physiology. As Konrad Lorenz had underlined, in physiology, to understand a function, it is necessary to consider its alteration and vice versa in a continuous postponement of answers. We can present the equation of the general metastability of an LU; this is a very significant indicator capable of considering the information content of the LU about the flow of energy necessary for maintaining the state of order of the LU itself. An exceptionally high correlation between BTC and human habitat (HH) brings us to measure the capacity for self-regulation of a natural system (HH). This diagnostic model is essential to arrive at a preliminary overall evaluation of a landscape unit with accuracy and consequently to check both a state of fact and a land planning project. Moreover, the local BTC can be balanced by an element of pleasing naturalness: so, the distance of influence from it is fundamental. It is called ER (eco-bionomic range) or radius of ecological influence. Continued human fragmentation and alteration, due to the transformation of agricultural landscapes, seem to be the ‘criteria’ of the structuring of suburban landscapes, but leaves a chaotic mosaic of remnant patches or residual spots of different magnitudes and importance: sew these rags into fabric that performs an ecological sense is possible by the bionomic study of the remnant patches. To understand the relationship between the state of health and diseases of a land unit, checking the compatibility with the needs and the human health, and to develop criteria of therapeutic rehabilitation with regenerative function must become the new concept of sustainability, too; so, it can no longer be to manage the resources to postpone as much as possible their depletion! Therefore, the ecological services of anthropic plant formations are of crucial importance, while they are, at present, seriously insufficient in terms of prevention and health care. We can indicate that without the presence of natural forests, human habitats are intrinsically prevented from achieving adequate health protection.