Giacomo Certini
Biographic Data
| ID | 2232364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giacomo Certini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giacomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Certini |
| SIGNATURE | CERTINI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3171-8595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The monetization of soil: An emerging imperative
This Viewpoint proposes assigning explicit economic value to soil—not merely as a platform for infrastructure but as a finite, three-dimensional resource crucial to food production and ecosystem services provision. Unlike water or air, soil is rarely accounted for its fundamental environmental importance. To fill this gap, we advocate a Total Economic Value framework spanning use, option and non-use benefits, which, contrary to conventional land …
Cork and Compost as Mitigators of Soil Compaction from Trampling in Urban Green Areas: Effects on Plant Growth and Soil Functionality
Compacted soils in urban areas suffer from reduced porosity, impairing plant growth, water infiltration, and gas exchange, thus exacerbating other potential environmental issues. Amending soil with organic matter can reduce bulk density and increase permeability, thereby enhancing soil fertility and functionality. This study evaluated the effects of two organic soil amendments (i.e., chipped cork and municipal waste compost) on soil functionality…
Charcoal Hearth Remains as Environmental Archives: An Interdisciplinary Study at Poggio di Montieri, Italy
This contribution presents interdisciplinary research on charcoal hearth remains carried out at Poggio di Montieri, Central Italy, a hill heavily exploited in the Middle Ages for the extraction of silver-bearing ore, and then managed until the nineteenth century with a multiple land use system based on pasture. Linking together pedological and archaeological surveys with anthracological, dendro-anthracological and chemical analyses, as well as wi…
Describing urban soils through a faceted system ensures more informed decision-making
Is the Anthropocene really worthy of a formal geologic definition
Scientists are actively debating whether the Anthropocene, the geologic time span (GTS) we are now living in, should be considered a period, epoch, or age in the geologic timescale. The solution is not easy, because the beginning of this GTS is undefined and the end unknown. In fact, there is no agreement on when the Anthropocene began, the proposed dates ranging from the Second World War, when radioactive fallout branded soils and sediments all …
Soil is brown gold in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy
Fire as a Soil-Forming Factor
Anthropogenic soils are the golden spikes for the Anthropocene
We propose that the Anthropocene be defined as the last c. 2000 years of the late Holocene and characterized on the basis of anthropogenic soils. This contrasts with the original definition of the Anthropocene as the last c. 250 years (since the Industrial Revolution) and more recent proposals that the Anthropocene began some 5000 to 8000 years ago in the early to mid Holocene (the early-Anthropocene hypothesis). Anthropogenic soil horizons, of w…
Effects of fire on properties of forest soils: A review
Anthropogenic soils are the golden spikes for the Anthropocene
We propose that the Anthropocene be defined as the last c. 2000 years of the late Holocene and characterized on the basis of anthropogenic soils. This contrasts with the original definition of the Anthropocene as the last c. 250 years (since the Industrial Revolution) and more recent proposals that the Anthropocene began some 5000 to 8000 years ago in the early to mid Holocene (the early-Anthropocene hypothesis). Anthropogenic soil horizons, of w…
Charcoal Hearth Remains as Environmental Archives: An Interdisciplinary Study at Poggio di Montieri, Italy
This contribution presents interdisciplinary research on charcoal hearth remains carried out at Poggio di Montieri, Central Italy, a hill heavily exploited in the Middle Ages for the extraction of silver-bearing ore, and then managed until the nineteenth century with a multiple land use system based on pasture. Linking together pedological and archaeological surveys with anthracological, dendro-anthracological and chemical analyses, as well as wi…
Soil is brown gold in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy
Is the Anthropocene really worthy of a formal geologic definition
Scientists are actively debating whether the Anthropocene, the geologic time span (GTS) we are now living in, should be considered a period, epoch, or age in the geologic timescale. The solution is not easy, because the beginning of this GTS is undefined and the end unknown. In fact, there is no agreement on when the Anthropocene began, the proposed dates ranging from the Second World War, when radioactive fallout branded soils and sediments all …
Fire as a Soil-Forming Factor
Effects of fire on properties of forest soils: A review
Anthropogenic soils are the golden spikes for the Anthropocene
We propose that the Anthropocene be defined as the last c. 2000 years of the late Holocene and characterized on the basis of anthropogenic soils. This contrasts with the original definition of the Anthropocene as the last c. 250 years (since the Industrial Revolution) and more recent proposals that the Anthropocene began some 5000 to 8000 years ago in the early to mid Holocene (the early-Anthropocene hypothesis). Anthropogenic soil horizons, of w…
Soil is brown gold in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy
Fire as a Soil-Forming Factor
Is the Anthropocene really worthy of a formal geologic definition
Scientists are actively debating whether the Anthropocene, the geologic time span (GTS) we are now living in, should be considered a period, epoch, or age in the geologic timescale. The solution is not easy, because the beginning of this GTS is undefined and the end unknown. In fact, there is no agreement on when the Anthropocene began, the proposed dates ranging from the Second World War, when radioactive fallout branded soils and sediments all …
Describing urban soils through a faceted system ensures more informed decision-making
Charcoal Hearth Remains as Environmental Archives: An Interdisciplinary Study at Poggio di Montieri, Italy
This contribution presents interdisciplinary research on charcoal hearth remains carried out at Poggio di Montieri, Central Italy, a hill heavily exploited in the Middle Ages for the extraction of silver-bearing ore, and then managed until the nineteenth century with a multiple land use system based on pasture. Linking together pedological and archaeological surveys with anthracological, dendro-anthracological and chemical analyses, as well as wi…
Cork and Compost as Mitigators of Soil Compaction from Trampling in Urban Green Areas: Effects on Plant Growth and Soil Functionality
Compacted soils in urban areas suffer from reduced porosity, impairing plant growth, water infiltration, and gas exchange, thus exacerbating other potential environmental issues. Amending soil with organic matter can reduce bulk density and increase permeability, thereby enhancing soil fertility and functionality. This study evaluated the effects of two organic soil amendments (i.e., chipped cork and municipal waste compost) on soil functionality…
The monetization of soil: An emerging imperative
This Viewpoint proposes assigning explicit economic value to soil—not merely as a platform for infrastructure but as a finite, three-dimensional resource crucial to food production and ecosystem services provision. Unlike water or air, soil is rarely accounted for its fundamental environmental importance. To fill this gap, we advocate a Total Economic Value framework spanning use, option and non-use benefits, which, contrary to conventional land …
Geography (6 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Geology (4 works) · Soil water (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Earth science (3 works) · Anthropocene (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)