Methodological proposal to analyze land use and land cover changes

The case of Santa Catarina state in Brazil from 2000 to 2010

Bibliographic Data

ID22014748
AuthorsJuliana Mio de Souza (0000-0002-4636-8236, Empresa de Pesquisa Agropecuária e Extensão Rural de Santa Catarina), Eduarda Marques Da Costa (0000-0001-5070-3562, University of Lisbon)
Year2020
Volume11
Issue3
Pages485-517
Publication date2020-12-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSustainability in Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2177-7675 • E-ISSN: 2179-9067
PublisherEditora de Livros IABS (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18472/sustdeb.v11n3.2020.32395
OpenAlexW3115132114
LanguageEN
References cited7

The objective of this paper is to verify the land use and land cover change and to relate them with the potential driving forces that have been acting in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, during the period from 2000 to 2010. The methodology consists in identifying trends in the land use and land cover change; indicating possible explanatory factors based in factorial analysis for main components and elaborating a final typology, based on cluster analysis. Results include a strong expansion and growing strength of agricultural activity as well as forestry throughout the state and the loss of native vegetation, which points to the need to develop protective actions and occupation and land use regulations, in particular, in the environmental area, encompassing the development of an intensive and mechanized agricultural activity

Agricultural land · Agriculture · Archaeology · Civil engineering · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Factorial analysis · Geography · Land cover · Land use · Land use, land-use change and forestry · Typology · Vegetation cover · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Engineering · Environmental Science · Geography and Environmental Studies · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Mathematics · Forestry

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