Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape

Jiménez-Olivencia, Yolanda; Ibáñez-Jiménez, Álvaro; Rodríguez, Laura Porcel; Zimmerer, Karl S.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105721

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“…During 2010-2020, landscape tended to be monolithic, with a more concentrated distribution of the phenomenon, showing the phenomenon of landscape homogenization, which is consistent with the findings of previous studies [26,52,68]. With regard to the impact of land-use change on the structure of the landscape as construction land and woodlands develop into more complex landscapes and as their spatial organization become more disorganized, urban planning may be used to rationally optimize the ecology of the surrounding region.…”

Section: Landscape Pattern Dynamics Of Karst Mountainous Citiessupporting

confidence: 86%

“…The landscape had gradually closed due to the growth of the forest, and is now less functionally designed and more simply laid out. Landscape uniformity was also being fueled at the same time by the abandonment of farming, urbanization, and infrastructural developments [26]. Therefore, how to fairly distribute landscape types and spatial distribution in the course of urbanization may be a trend for future land use landscape planning and environmental decision-making.…”

Section: Landscape Pattern Dynamics Of Karst Mountainous Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among the spatial variables, natural factors and accessibility factors are frequently found to be exploratory factors of landscape pattern change during urban expansion [26,77]. Areas with low-lying terrain and flat topography are conducive to the formation of construction land [78][79][80].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several scholars have studied the landscape pattern changes and driving forces of urbanization [23][24][25]. The relevant studies have been conducted to assess regional landscape patterns and driving forces in intercontinental [26], national [27,28], provincial [29], and civic [30,31] contexts. In general, using various landscape indices to measure the spatial-temporal heterogeneity of urban landscape patterns and to quantitatively reveal the landscape components and distribution characteristics is the conventional paradigm of landscape pattern analysis [32][33][34].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Spatial-Temporal Driving Factors of Urban Landscape Changes in the Karst Mountainous Regions of Southwest China: A Case Study in Central Urban Area of Guiyang City

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Rapid urban expansion has significantly altered the regional landscape pattern, posing a serious threat to the sustainable development of natural and social ecosystems. By using landscape patterns indices and an area transfer matrix, this study analyzed the spatial-temporal changes of landscape patterns in the karst mountainous cities of southwest China from 2000 to 2020, by taking the central urban area of Guiyang City (CUAG) as the study area. This study explored the spatial and temporal driving factors of landscape pattern changes by using stepwise multiple linear regression and geographic detector methods. The results show: (1) CUAG’s landscape types altered changed drastically, with the area of forestland and construction land rapid increment and cultivated land decrement significantly. (2) The patches of construction land and forestland tended to be aggregated, the degree of fragmentation was reduced, and the shape was complex; cultivated land fragmentation was intensified. The connectivity of the landscape was improved, while the level of landscape diversity declined, the trend of landscape homogenization was obvious. (3) Socioeconomic and geographical endowment drivers have determined landscape pattern changes. The findings of this study may be used to interpret other similar landscapes worldwide and may imply the protection of urban ecosystem and sustainable development.

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Section: Landscape Pattern Dynamics Of Karst Mountainous Citiessupporting

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“…The aforementioned field of sociological studies bring forth another dimension of our study: the spatial and temporal resolution of some studied variables and general aspects. Regarding the temporal resolution, the advantage of the present work over other similar studies of land cover change over a long time span is the use of three time periods, given that most studies that include data from the 1940s commonly present one or two time periods [66]. Nevertheless, future work could focus on further increasing the temporal resolution by adding maps of land cover and related variables between our studied years, to shed more light, e.g., on the relation between the recent acceleration of abandonment and the underlying socioeconomic changes during the time periods.…”

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Acceleration and Relocation of Abandonment in a Mediterranean Mountainous Landscape: Drivers, Consequences, and Management Implications

Kiziridis

Mastrogianni

Pleniou³

et al. 2022

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Land abandonment in European mountains threatens habitats shaped for centuries by low-intensity agriculture and grazing. Hence, it is important to identify spatiotemporal patterns in rural abandonment, and relate them to biophysical and socioeconomic drivers. We pursued these goals in the theoretical context of transitions from traditional to productivist and then to post-productivist agriculture. We conducted a case study in a representative of southern Europe sub-mountainous marginal area that was once traditionally exploited (Pindus range, Epirus, Greece). Land cover was mapped from the outset of abandonment (years 1945, 1970, 1996 and 2015), and we subsequently calculated landscape metrics. An Intensity Analysis facilitated the comparison of rates of land cover change between time periods. By employing random forest modelling, we related socioeconomic, physiographic, geological and climatic predictors to land type occurrence and succession intensity. We found that farmland decreased from 30% to 3% during the 70 years of the study period, and that forest increased from 22% to 63%. The landscape’s heterogeneity, ecotone diversity, and spatial aggregation decreased. Abandonment and succession accelerated and relocated to lower elevation, especially during the latest time period, which was related to a second depopulation wave and livestock decrease. The remaining lowland farmlands were of productivist agriculture, and no widespread post-productivist regime was found. Thus, our study supports the view that policies, which have been mainly based on the linear transition of agricultural regimes in northern Europe, must take into account southern European mountains, where widespread abandonment can coexist with limited intensification and extensification.

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Spatiotemporal evolution and driving mechanism of slope cultivated land in karst mountainous areas of Southwest China—A case study of Puding County, Guizhou Province

Yu,

Li,

Luo

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Land Degrad Dev

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Slope‐cultivated land (SCL) is essential for food security and ecological protection in Southwest China's karst mountainous areas (KMA). Constructing a unified conceptual framework to study SCL's spatiotemporal evolution characteristics thoroughly and driving mechanisms can comprehensively reveal the development of regional human–land relations and sustainable land use. Therefore, this article first constructs a conceptual framework for the spatiotemporal evolution of SCL in the KMA of Southwest China and carries out a case study in Puding County, a typical karst mountainous area, based on high‐resolution remote sensing images from 2004 to 2020 and the digital elevation model (DEM), to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of SCL in different topographic gradients and introduce the Geodetector further to explore the driving factors of SCL evolution. The results show that the SCL is evolving toward fragmentation, driven by socio‐economic factors. The active policy of the state encourages to abandon steep SCL with poor productivity in the KMA, and the abandonment of SCL in high altitude steep slope areas into woodland and grassland brings remarkable ecological benefits, while the evolution of SCL in low altitude gentle slope areas toward economic fruit forest generates significant obvious ecological‐economic win‐win benefits. The evolution of SCL in southwestern karst mountains has promoted regional ecological restoration and made an important contribution to the greening of the world by reducing land degradation (karstic rocky desertification, KRD). The present research results can provide ideas for the utilization, functional transformation, and ecologically sustainable development of similar mountainous SCL.

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Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape

Cited by 35 publications

References 67 publications

Spatial-Temporal Driving Factors of Urban Landscape Changes in the Karst Mountainous Regions of Southwest China: A Case Study in Central Urban Area of Guiyang City

Spatial-Temporal Driving Factors of Urban Landscape Changes in the Karst Mountainous Regions of Southwest China: A Case Study in Central Urban Area of Guiyang City

Acceleration and Relocation of Abandonment in a Mediterranean Mountainous Landscape: Drivers, Consequences, and Management Implications

Spatiotemporal evolution and driving mechanism of slope cultivated land in karst mountainous areas of Southwest China—A case study of Puding County, Guizhou Province

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