Evolution of Legal Criteria for the Identification and Zoning of Rural Settlements in Galicia, NW Spain

Barbosa, Vasco; Riveira, Inés Santé; Maseda, Rafael Crecente

doi:10.1080/09654313.2013.867317

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“…The elaboration of these restrictions and conditions aids the design of spatial criteria to delimit rural settlements. This new spatial criteria approach is applied through a developed iterative algorithm, which predicts the final result between the law criteria and the research criteria [86,87]. Thus, this instrument, combined with spatial criteria, becomes relevant to decision-making, as it permits the direct comparison between the final boundaries delimitation and the RS, which are explained below.…”

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A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain

Barbosa

Riveira

Maseda

et al. 2022

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Rural settlements (RS) are a reality of rural areas. They consist of cluster of buildings and ways of life mainly associated with activities related to agriculture. As economic policies applied in rural development have evolved, the physical delimitation of rural areas has become more important because such areas are recipients of financial support, which depends on an area’s characteristics. Thus, it is necessary to formulate a new spatial approach for RS delimitation. The objective of this study is to define spatial criteria for identification and delimitation of the RS to recognize the morphological context of each RS. With respect to methodology, RS in the community of Galicia, Northwestern Spain were studied, and factors for spatial characterization were defined according to experts’ evaluations. Subsequently, spatial restrictions and conditions were identified for the delimitation of boundaries. The criteria that this research proposes reveal numerically adjustable factors that can recognize and interpret the morphological characteristics of each RS, which is also evidenced by the results of RS delimitations. It can be concluded that the numerically defined criteria associated with a spatial operation allow the adaptation to the morphological characteristics of any RS, as well as spatial equity by recognizing the differentiation of building structures and land uses of each RS, rather unlike the criteria defined by the law.

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A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain

Barbosa

Riveira

Maseda

et al. 2022

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“…Although ecological land plays an important role in improving the living environment of rural areas [38], little attention has been given to exploring the ecological disturbance caused by rural settlement expansion due to the characteristics of spatial concealment and fragmentation of RSEEL. Scholars have tended to discuss the influencing factors and mechanisms of rural settlement evolution [39,40] as well as the human-land relationship involved in this process [41,42]. The use of internal space in rural settlements [43] and its socioeconomic attributes have also been explored [44]; however, the linkages between rural settlement expansion and ecological land loss remain unclear.…”

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Ecological Disturbance of Rural Settlement Expansion: Evidence from Nantong, Eastern China

Cheng

Qin

Zhu

et al. 2022

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Rural settlements are undergoing a reconstruction process in the context of rapid urbanization, which has a significant impact on ecological land. However, rural settlements encroaching on ecological land (RSEEL) and its associated ecological effects have been widely ignored. This paper aims to accurately and quantitatively evaluate the ecological disturbance caused by RSEEL in China’s rapid urbanization areas. An ecological disturbance index combining changes in both the scale and fragmentation was applied in Nantong, Eastern China. Three types, including jump expansion, extension diffusion, and internal filling, were identified in RSEEL. The results show that the jump expansion type accounted for the largest proportion (58.39%) at the patch level, whereas the extension diffusion was the dominant type at the village level, and the internal filling type was the least common. RSEEL unexpectedly did not make ecological land more fragmented due to the preference for small independent patches in most encroachment cases; hence, the degree of ecological disturbance caused by RSEEL was low in most areas of Nantong. When the encroachment type of RSEEL was combined with the ecological disturbance degree, it was found that the ecological disturbance caused by the jump expansion type was higher than that of the other two types, and extension diffusion and low-level disturbance was the main pattern observed in villages. The findings will contribute to our understanding of the dynamic relationship between rural settlement and ecological land and provide valuable information for rural settlement reconstruction under ecological civilization.

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Rural settlement changes in compound land use areas: Characteristics and reasons of changes in a mixed mining-rural-settlement area in Shanxi Province, China

Cao

Bai

Sun

et al. 2017

Habitat International

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Evolution of Legal Criteria for the Identification and Zoning of Rural Settlements in Galicia, NW Spain

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain

A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain

Ecological Disturbance of Rural Settlement Expansion: Evidence from Nantong, Eastern China

Rural settlement changes in compound land use areas: Characteristics and reasons of changes in a mixed mining-rural-settlement area in Shanxi Province, China

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