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  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural Science
  • Ecology

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  • European Union practices prioritize human health and safety in productive activities to prevent environmental deterioration.
  • National legislation identifies environmental factors requiring quality characterization and vulnerability assessment to human pressures.
  • Environmental quality is evolving to mean satisfying human needs through resource management and maintaining ecological equilibrium.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose instruments for evaluating environmental capacity to withstand deterioration from external pressures, specifically pollution from farming, livestock waste, and sewage.
  • To develop a decision support tool using fuzzy logic for territorial vulnerability assessment, enabling broad stakeholder involvement.
  • To apply this vulnerability evaluation to the Tiber watershed, a sensitive area impacted by livestock production.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized fuzzy logic as a decision support tool for evaluating territorial vulnerability.
  • Applied Geographic Information System (GIS) software for data management and analysis of environmental factors.
  • Developed a weighting system for prioritizing environmental factors and managing diverse data types (qualitative and quantitative).

Main Results:

  • Created a vulnerability map classifying the Tiber watershed based on its response to livestock production-induced stresses.
  • Demonstrated the effectiveness of the fuzzy logic tool in involving diverse stakeholders in the evaluation process.
  • Identified specific areas within the Tiber watershed highly vulnerable to pollution from agricultural and livestock activities.

Conclusions:

  • The fuzzy logic approach provides a robust method for assessing territorial vulnerability to pollution.
  • GIS integration facilitates efficient analysis and visualization of complex environmental data for vulnerability mapping.
  • The developed vulnerability map serves as a crucial tool for environmental planning and management in sensitive agricultural regions.