Ecological and social evaluation of landscape in a rural area with terraced paddies in southwestern Japan

Iiyama, Naoki; Kamada, Masao; Nakagoshi, Nobukazu

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.12.003

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“…grasslands, shifting cultivation land, ploughed and crop fields, rice paddy and terraces, streams, ponds, reservoirs, and also settlement [17,19,26,38]. The diverse habitats resulting from management regimes sustained rich biodiversity with half of threatened species in Japan [39][40][41][42].…”

Section: Biodiversity Crisis In Satoyama Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Around the 1960s, Japan has experienced rapid economic growth with the revolutions of fuel, fertilizer, transportation, housing, and agriculture technologies, which in turn caused either the abandonment or intensification of all kinds of traditional land use types [39,69,70]. The abandonment of grassland, shifting cultivating land, charcoal forest land, crop land, and rice terraced fields less favoured by farmers, eventually led to the loss of various types of habitats and then threatened many species [17], including the extinction of many common species in traditional Satoyama landscape, such as herbs [70], butterflies [71,72], dragonflies [73], Genji-firefly [74,75], birds [35,76], ground beetles [53], etc.…”

Section: Habitats Loss Caused By Changes Of Society and Economymentioning

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Crises of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Satoyama Landscape of Japan: A Review on the Role of Management

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Satoyama is a Japanese term used to describe the traditional rural landscape in Japan. It has changed continuously from overuse to underuse stages under the development of economy and society, which caused the loss of both biodiversity and ecosystem services. In this paper, we summarized the interactions of biodiversity and ecosystem services affected by human management in Satoyama landscape. The results indicate: (1) the concepts of Satoyama forests and Satoyama landscape varied with researchers and their objectives. The most popular one is a mosaic landscape consisting of Satoyama (secondary) forests, rice paddies, grassland, ponds, irrigating systems, and rural settlements; (2) traditional management regimes on Satoyama landscape were the disturbing mechanisms to provide multiple ecosystem services, as well as a series of semi-natural habitats for species; (3) due to significant progress in economy and technology in Japan, the aging problems of farmers, industrialized agriculture, the import of ecosystem services and goods from international markets, and global climate changes eventually caused the simplification of crop plants, the invasion of alien species, the fragmentation of habitats, and the decreasing of ecosystem services;(4) future research should pay more attention to the complex mechanisms of biodiversity crises and ecosystem services at the landscape scale, considering pattern-process relationships.

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Section: Biodiversity Crisis In Satoyama Landscapementioning

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Section: Habitats Loss Caused By Changes Of Society and Economymentioning

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Crises of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Satoyama Landscape of Japan: A Review on the Role of Management

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“…[55]. Research on natural, social, and political phenomena has traditionally been separated into different disciplines, each with its own terminologies and methodologies [56,57]. This separation ignores the specific features of human-dominated land use Remote Sens.…”

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Past and Future Trajectories of Farmland Loss Due to Rapid Urbanization Using Landsat Imagery and the Markov-CA Model: A Case Study of Delhi, India

Tang

2019

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This study integrated multi-temporal Landsat images, the Markov-Cellular Automation (CA) model, and socioeconomic factors to analyze the historical and future farmland loss in the Delhi metropolitan area, one of the most rapidly urbanized areas in the world. Accordingly, the major objectives of this study were: (1) to classify the land use and land cover (LULC) map using multi-temporal Landsat images from 1994 to 2014; (2) to develop and calibrate the Markov-CA model based on the Markov transition probabilities of LULC classes, the CA diffusion factor, and other ancillary factors; and (3) to analyze and compare the past loss of farmland and predict the future loss of farmland in relation to rapid urban expansion from the year 1995 to 2030. The predicted results indicated the high accuracy of the Markov-CA model, with an overall accuracy of 0.75 and Kappa value of 0.59. The predicted results showed that urban expansion is likely to continue to the year of 2030, though the rate of increase will slow down from the year 2020. The area of farmland has decreased and will continue to decrease at a relatively stable rate. The Markov-CA model provided a better understanding of the past, current, and future trends of LULC change, with farmland loss being a typical change in this region. The predicted result will help planners to develop suitable government policies to guide sustainable urban development in Delhi, India.

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“…The result has been a landscape rich in crops and field types or patterns of agricultural land (Lasanta, 1990;Ruiz Perez, 1990;Meeus et al, 1990), and generating cultural landscapes that constitute a testimony of the relationships between society and the environment over time (Antrop, 1997;Calvo Iglesias et al, 2006). Therefore, it is not surprising that many scientists and several public administrations have recently pointed out the need and suggested ways to maintain or recover, in case of heavy degradation, the agricultural landscapes of the Mediterranean mountain area (Marshall & Moonen, 2002;Iiyama et al, 2005;Moreira et al, 2006;Harrod, 2007). Particular importance is laid on maintaining agricultural terraces, as they are a key element in Mediterranean farming 'a distinct, recognisable and consistent pattern of elements in the landscape that makes one landscape different from another' (The Countryside Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage, 2002, p. 8), which is usually referred to as a 'landscape character' (Mucher et al, 2003;Jessel, 2006;Kizos et al, 2010;Tarolli et al, 2014).…”

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Traditional Agrarian Landscape in the Mediterranean Mountains. A Regional and Local Factor Analysis in the Central Spanish Pyrenees

2017

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Development of rural areas needs information about sustainable use of the land. The main objective of this research is to study the spatial distribution pattern of different field types in the traditional agricultural landscape in the Central Spanish Pyrenees (flat fields, four different terrace fields, sloping field and shifting agriculture) related to different geoecological variables: slope, exposition, altitude, distance to the villages, rainfall (intensity and volume), lithology and demographic pressure. Agricultural land patterns were mapped in five valleys in the Central Pyrenees from aerial photographs (1957). These maps were digitised and implemented in a Geographic Information System on a scale 1:50,000. We determined the influence of different geoecological variables in the spatial distribution of land agricultural patterns at local and regional valley using statistical analysis. The results showed that the agricultural area occupied a large extension, despite physical environment limitations, extending even in marginal slopes, with little agricultural skills, creating a complex landscape with different field patterns. At the local scale (valley), slope and distance are the more influence variables to explain the spatial distribution of the different field types. At the regional scale, in the Western valleys, sloping fields and shifting agriculture predominate, while terraces dominate in the Eastern valleys. Distance to the village and rainfall intensity is the more determinant factors in the spatial distribution. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Ecological and social evaluation of landscape in a rural area with terraced paddies in southwestern Japan

Cited by 28 publications

References 16 publications

Crises of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Satoyama Landscape of Japan: A Review on the Role of Management

Crises of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Satoyama Landscape of Japan: A Review on the Role of Management

Past and Future Trajectories of Farmland Loss Due to Rapid Urbanization Using Landsat Imagery and the Markov-CA Model: A Case Study of Delhi, India

Traditional Agrarian Landscape in the Mediterranean Mountains. A Regional and Local Factor Analysis in the Central Spanish Pyrenees

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