Long-Term Land Use Changes Driven by Urbanisation and Their Environmental Effects (Example of Trnava City, Slovakia)

Izakovičová, Zita; Mederly, Peter; Petrovič, František

doi:10.3390/su9091553

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“…The examples of temporal changes of land use and ESs indicate how important monitoring of land use and ESs is for potential spatial planning and regional policy interventions [14,25,27]. Incorporating dynamics of landscapes and ESs into land use planning provides a practicable way for decision-makers to efficiently manage ecosystems and land use, especially in setting program priorities, choosing among environmental options, and communicating the importance of their actions to the public.…”

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“…The analyses show that the transformation processes in urban areas in Slovakia and other post-Communist countries led to increasing pressure on ecosystems and their individual components-in particular, the conversion of productive agricultural land and semi-natural ecosystems into built-up areas accompanied by the negative ecological impacts of habitat deterioration and fragmentation [27].…”

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“…More recent developments were analyzed by Szumacher and Pabjanek [25] in 85 large cities from the continental (Central and Eastern) biogeographical region in Europe using Corine Land Cover Izakovičová et al [27] investigated the long-term land use changes (1838-2015, with explicit emphasis on the transformation over the last 25-30 years) driven by urbanization and their environmental effects in Trnava City and compared them with those in similar cities in Slovakia and adjacent countries (Czech Republic, (Eastern) Germany). The analyses show that the transformation processes in urban areas in Slovakia and other post-Communist countries led to increasing pressure on ecosystems and their individual components-in particular, the conversion of productive agricultural land and semi-natural ecosystems into built-up areas accompanied by the negative ecological impacts of habitat deterioration and fragmentation [27].…”

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Special Issue: “Maintaining Ecosystem Services to Support Urban Needs”

Grunewald

Olaf

2017

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Cities are growing worldwide, in their geographical extent with respect to their general and current macro-economic significance, as well as regarding their total populations. Thereby, land and resource utilization are increasing in and around agglomeration centers, as are the requirements for a good quality of life and health. Current projections of rapid expansion of urban areas present fundamental challenges but also opportunities to design more livable, healthy, and resilient cities [1,2].Often, the city has been treated in geographical writings as merely a social phenomenon, and at the same time, environmental scientists have tended to ignore the urban perspective [3]. In recent years, social, economic, and environmental considerations have led to a reevaluation of the factors that contribute to sustainable urban environments. In this context, urban green space is increasingly seen as an integral part of cities that provides a range of services to both the people and the wildlife living in urban areas [4]. It is widely accepted that forests, surface waters, parks, and gardens make up a significant part of the quality of life in cities. They represent urban ecological features, provide numerous ecosystem services, such as the adaptation to climate change impacts, and are essential for the urban population in terms of environmental education and contact with nature.With this recognition and resulting from the simultaneous provision of different services by urban ecosystems, there is a real need to identify a research framework in which to develop multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on urban green space and to quantify and communicate its value in terms of ecosystem services accounting in space and time. Studies investigating the effects of urban green space on well-being and health show how important nature is for human well-being in urban areas. All these studies provide helpful information for policy and planning on the optimal amount of green space provision for well-being and health in close vicinity to the residential areas [2].

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Olaf

2017

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“…New psychosocial phenomena such as divorce, unrestrained lifestyles, crime, drugs, etc., are beginning to permeate [80]. "Consumer egoism" can also be seen in the increase in the built-up area size per capita ( Figure 7) [1]. activities are located on regional and trans-regional axes, as well as in the city center.…”

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“…European countries in the recent period have faced many substantial socio-economic changes, which are also reflected in the environment [1]. Changes in land use are often linked to the occurrence of environmental problems-qualitative and quantitative degradation of natural resources, decline of natural ecosystems, negative impact of abandoned agricultural fields on biodiversity, desertion of land, increase of synanthropic species etc.…”

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Integrative Assessment of Land Use Conflicts

2018

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Changes in land use are reflected primary in changes of land cover, but subsequently cause conflict of interest of sectors and are the main initiation of many environmental problems. The basic tool for sustainable utilization of the landscape is integrated landscape management, which, in our understanding, is the environmentally biased harmonization of tools which regulate the spatial organization and functional utilization of the landscape to avoid the conflicts of interest of sectors. "Integrated" in this case means the systematic assessment of the interests of all relevant sectors from the environmental point of view. The scientific base of this approach is the understanding of the landscape as a geosystem, and, in particular, the proper interpretation of the mutual relations of primary, secondary and tertiary landscape structures and their role in the assessment of the conflicts of interest. This paper presents a theoretical and methodical base for the integrated approach to the assessment of the conflicts of interest of the sectors in the landscape. The theoretical-methodical base was applied to the model territory of the Trnava district (south-west Slovakia). Mutual conflicts of interest of endangering and endangered sectors cause diverse problems, which were ranked in three basic groups as: problems of endangering of the ecological stability of the landscape (including endangering of biodiversity and nature conservation areas); problems of endangering of natural resources (in particular forests, soils, waters); and, problems of endangering the immediate human environment (stress factors in residential and recreational areas). The result is the identification and analysis of the conflicts of interest in the territory and their projection to a map. This research should be followed by implementation of procedures of ecologically optimal spatial organization and utilization of the territory for regular spatial planning processes. of the GMTs are not yet completely known, as many have begun to manifest themselves in recent years. The relationships between individual GMTs raise a large number of questions, and there are still many deficiencies in the knowledge of their impact on the landscape.Several of these environmental global megatrends are initiated by inappropriate land use. According to Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unated Nations (FAO) information, up to 60% of the world's ecosystems are degraded and exploited unsustainably [5]. In the EU, only 17% of habitats and species and 11% of key ecosystems protected by European legislation show a favorable status [4][5][6]. This is despite the adoption of measures in 2001 to combat biodiversity loss. All scenarios of global and regional assessments show that biodiversity loss, degradation of ecosystems and threats to environmental conditions will continue or even accelerate [7]. Human activities, global population growth and changing consumption patterns are key factors responsible for this growing environmental burden, which primarily becomes evident ...

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