Future Land Use Patterns in Europe

Brouwer, F.; Chadwick, M. J.

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-3290-9_3

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“…Despite this uncertainty several scientists have tried to construct land use change scenarios for Europe (Parry et al, 1988a(Parry et al, , 1988bSvedin and Aniansson, 1987;Brouwer and Chadwick, 1988).…”

Section: Scenarios For Land Use Changementioning

confidence: 98%

“…Scenarios for future land use changes in the Rhine drainage area are uncertain because land use depends not only on the environmental conditions but is also modified by factors like economy and agricultural politics. Despite this uncertainty several scientists have tried to construct land use change scenarios for Europe (Parry et al, 1988a(Parry et al, , 1988bSvedin and Aniansson, 1987;Brouwer and Chadwick, 1988).…”

Section: Scenarios For Land Use Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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Sensitivity of the river Rhine discharge to environmental change, a first tentative assessment

Kwadijk

1991

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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Changes in climatic conditions may have. great impact on the distribution of available water in space and time. However the results of models that describe future climate conditions are still insufficient to be used in regional hydrological simulation studies.This article describes a first tentative estimation of the sensitivity of discharge of the river Rhine to two environmental changes. Firstly, to a change in snow covered area due to a rise of 4°C in winter temperature in the upland part (Alps) of the drainage area and, secondly, to a large land use change in the lowland area (Federal Republic of Germany/France).'Worst case' scenarios for discharge of the river Rhine under warmer conditions give a reduction of 10 percent for the summer discharge at Rees (Dutch/German border). The results of the estimations indicate that the reduction of the summer discharge in a warmer world could be larger.

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Section: Scenarios For Land Use Changementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Scenarios For Land Use Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Sensitivity of the river Rhine discharge to environmental change, a first tentative assessment

Kwadijk

1991

Earth Surf Processes Landf

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“…Finally, over-arching all of these considera tions are the prospects of global climatic change due to increased atmospheric concen trations of carbon dioxide and other 'green house gases' (Brouwer and Chadwick 1991). A reallocation of agricultural land uses would necessarily follow, not least because of in creased soil degradation (e. g. erosion, nutrient and organic matter depletion, salinisation).…”

Section: Agriculturalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural Land Use in the European Union: Past, Present and Future

Inui

Bowler

1995

Geogr. Rev. Jpn, Ser B

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Agriculture in the European Union (EU) is moving into a 'post-productivist transition'. From a period of maximizing food output, farmers are being redirected to reduce their production, provide society with 'environmental goods' and create a more 'sustainable' agriculture. The motivations for this transition can be traced to the removal of food surpluses, control of the cost of subsidies to agriculture, and repair of environmental damage associated with productivist agriculture. This paper offers a perspective on the agricultural land-use implications of this redirection of EU agriculture by examining agricultural land use in the past (productivism), the present (post-productivist transition) and the future (post-productivism). Attention is directed to three changing land use dimensions: from intensification to extensifica tion; from concentration to dispersion; and from specialisation to diversification. There are national, regional and local variations in these dimensions, but overall a more diversified land use structure is emerging within the EU. Non-food crops (including bio-fuel), forestry, set-aside, nature conservation and recreation are the main rural, rather than agricultural, land uses increasing in importance. Future rural land use trends will revolve around three processes: the extent of 'surplus' farmland in the EU, global competition in markets for food, and global climatic change. Much depends on the application of technological progress in the genetic engineering of crops and livestock, the international competitiveness of regional agricultural systems, and the international agricultural response to global climatic change.

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“…Salvati et al (2013) hypothesized the existence of an homologation process influencing together composition, structure and spatial configuration of periurban landscapes due to the effect of diffused urban expansion in the originally compact, large city regions of the Mediterranean basin. This process may reduce the importance of the biophysical and socioeconomic factors which determined the traditional structure of the Mediterranean landscape with the well defined segregation in the anthropogenic, agricultural and natural land-use classes observed along the urban gradient (Brouwer et al, 1991). These changes may have important implications on landscape diversity, heterogeneity and, possibly, long-term resilience to environmental shocks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%