Multi-temporal land use and cover changing analysis
The environmental impact in Mediterranean area
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19500548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elena Brunori (0000-0002-1475-1353, Università degli Studi della Tuscia), Luca Salvati (0000-0001-9322-9987), Roberto Mancinelli (0000-0002-8396-6307, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, corresponding author), Daniela Smiraglia (0000-0002-0427-248X, Research unit for Climatology and Meteorology applied to Agriculture (CREA_CMA), Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Roma, Italy), Rita Biasi (0000-0002-5573-4584, Università degli Studi della Tuscia) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 276-288 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4509 • E-ISSN: 1745-2627 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504509.2016.1205156 |
| OpenAlex | W2472184503 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
Human activity shapes the levels of anthropogenic pressure that depend on the land management method adopted. This has a fundamental role in the transformation of traditional landscapes. This study focuses on a representative region of the Mediterranean area with the objective to analyse the landscape’s dynamics, to detect the spatial arrangement of class patches, to identify the main agroecosystem characters and to provide a framework to assess ecosystems services. In order to assess land use/land cover changes and landscape persistence, the period between 1960 and 2012 was analysed, taking into consideration the years 1960, 2000 and 2012 using comparable land use maps. Land use and land cover analysis show an urban area growth of 24% during 2000–2012 and of 523% over between 1960 and 2012. The very high levels of land abandonment up to the year 2000 (+7216%) have reversed their trend between 2000 and 2012 (−95%). The orchards showed a relevant increase, particularly after 2000, while the vineyards were linked to the highest value of surface erosion (−74%). The outcomes showed that urban settlements can damage the ecological network with negative effects on the landscape’s environmental sustainability in proximity of significant urban centres. Instead, the ecological network is well preserved and highly associated to the agricultural areas when there is the persistence of many land uses and low urban density, despite the presence of dynamic changes
Agriculture · Agroecosystem · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Environmental resource management · Geography · Human settlement · Land cover · Land management · Land use · Land use, land-use change and forestry · Mediterranean climate · Physical geography · Sustainability · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 0.63 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |