Land-use evolution and degradation in Lesvos (Greece): a historical approach

Marathianou, M.; Kosmas, Costas; Gerontidis, St; Detsis, Vassilis

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-145x(200001/02)11:1<63::aid-ldr369>3.0.co;2-8

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“…In Europe, agricultural intensification, technological developments and the influence of the Common Agricultural Policy increased productivity until the early 1990s; farming was focused on the most fertile and accessible land, while the more marginal regions were left aside (MacDonald et al, 2000;García-Ruiz and Lana-Renault, 2011). This process has been observed in Portugal (Nunes et al, (Fernández-Ales et al, 1992;Lasanta et al, 2005;García-Ruiz, 2010), France (Sluiter and de Jong, 2007), Italy (Giupponi et al, 2006) and Greece (Marathianou et al, 2000). In China and Eastern Asia, Fu et al (2006) and Rao and Pant (2001) assessed changes in the landscape and land use in relation to agricultural practices and wider socioeconomic changes that put terrace farming at an economic disadvantage.…”

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Effects of farming terraces on hydrological and geomorphological processes. A review

Vadillo

Lana-Renault

Lasanta

et al. 2015

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Effects of farming terraces on hydrological and geomorphological processes. A review

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Lana-Renault

Lasanta

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“…These changes also played an effective role in the decrease of erosion. Even though this study was conducted in the eastern Mediterranean water basin, the change taking place due to socio-economic reasons shows parallelism with the other parts of the Mediterranean basin as well (Giourga, 1999;Marathianou et al, 2000;Tağıl, 2007).…”

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The effects of land use and land cover changes (LULCC) in Kuseyr plateau of Turkey on erosion

Özşahin¹,

Uygur²

2014

Turk J Agric For

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Erosion is one of the important problems in degradation of agricultural lands and other natural lands. The most dynamic factor in controlling erosion is land cover, and this factor has been anthropogenically manipulated for ages. This study investigates the effect of land use and land cover changes (LULCC) on erosion at Kuseyr Plateau, which is situated in the southernmost part of the eastern Mediterranean basin, Turkey. A geographical information systems-based method using the revised universal soil loss equation (3D) was employed to identify the amount of annual soil loss, erosion risk classes, and distribution generated by LULCC. Landsat satellite images were used to analyze LULCC from 1987 to 2010. The implementations of both land cover and management factors were made possible by satellite image analysis performed throughout the years. The results obtained from the study show that there is a rather severe erosion risk covering as much as 30% of the land within the scope of the study for 1987; this rate corresponds to 22% in 2010. Maximum annual soil loss in the plateau was as high as 59.81 t ha -1 per year in 1987 and 48.33 t ha -1 per year in 2010. The average soil losses in the plateau were 6.19 and 5.00 t ha -1 per year for 1987 and 2010, respectively. The related processes causing erosion from the past to present have slowed down, and reclamation of the land cover (with the intended purpose of decreasing erosion sensitivity) has always been the key factor in this regard. Despite a considerable decrease in severe erosion, as much as 22% of the study area still requires immediate measures in order to reduce soil loss.

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“…Future research should improve short-term sustainability scenarios under various assumptions dealing with e.g., climate changes, urbanization, demographic trends, socioeconomic structure, and considering current and past land-uses, the territorial context and short-term ecological/landscape dynamics as the key variables of changes [25,48,62]. The methodology illustrated in this study may contribute to shed lights to such dynamics by providing on objective way to classify local systems and to profile the most typical factors according to their potential of change and to the implications for long-term sustainability.…”

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“…SD is perceived as a threat to agriculture and rural communities since it implies a long-term decline in crop productivity, ecosystem degradation, and a reduced environmental resilience [25][26][27]. SD processes include (but are not restricted to) soil erosion, salinization, compaction, sealing and contamination [28].…”

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Territorial Systems, Regional Disparities and Sustainability: Economic Structure and Soil Degradation in Italy

Salvati¹,

Zitti

Carlucci

2014

Sustainability

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Abstract:The present study was devoted to identify the evolutionary path of a number of local systems in a Mediterranean country vulnerable to soil degradation (SD) in the last decades. A multivariate analysis was used to evaluate the socio-ecological conditions and to estimate rapidity-of-change of local systems by considering 6 bio-physical factors predisposing soil to degradation and 23 socioeconomic indicators over fifty years . Results indicate that systems' development paths diverged during the investigated time period reflecting changes in the spatial organization and in the economic base of entire regions. Interestingly, economic performance and environmental quality do not seem to follow opposite trajectories. Local systems characterized by low per-capita income, agricultural specialization and population ageing, seem not to be associated with better and more stable ecological conditions. Local systems in affluent areas, featuring a mix of socioeconomic conditions with the prevalence of services in the economy and tourism specialization, showed relatively good ecological conditions and moderate-to-low SD vulnerability. Thus, affluent local systems do not necessarily reflect a higher pressure on the environment. These findings suggest that areas with a changing socio-demographic profile and a dynamic economic structure are compatible with low and stable levels of SD vulnerability.

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Land-use evolution and degradation in Lesvos (Greece): a historical approach

Cited by 70 publications

References 6 publications

Effects of farming terraces on hydrological and geomorphological processes. A review

Effects of farming terraces on hydrological and geomorphological processes. A review

The effects of land use and land cover changes (LULCC) in Kuseyr plateau of Turkey on erosion

Territorial Systems, Regional Disparities and Sustainability: Economic Structure and Soil Degradation in Italy

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