Long-term land-use changes in small/medium-sized cities. Enhancing the general trends and local characteristics

Tavares, Alexandre Oliveira; Monteiro, Mario Francisco Giani; Barros, José Leandro; Santos, Pedro Pinto

doi:10.1080/09654313.2019.1588854

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“…The effect of access networks on urban/regional development is markedly different for road networks, and ring roads when compared to mass transit networks [5,9,10,12,13,16,18,21,24,[26][27][28][29][31][32][33]44,57,63,66,[83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92], or highway [1,3,16,24,27,32,40,44,57,66,69,[79][80][81]84,[93][94][95]. Road networks are catalysts for residential, office, and commercial development, by facilitating development opportunities through ubiquitous transport connections and accessibility, being particularly suited to Road based transpo...…”

Section: Transport Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second most frequent factor in urban growth factors is industry. Accordingly, industrial parks or sites [1,30,56,68,97,99], technological progress and industrial transformation [2,3,5,[9][10][11]14,[17][18][19]21,22,24,27,33,40,41,66,71,81,93,[99][100][101][102], and factories [1,68,100], were cited as influencing factors on changing the spatial structure and LULC of urban areas.…”

Section: Industrial Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Because urban expansion is a complex spatiotemporal activity, it is influenced by a variety of factors including society, economy, geography, and policy [3]. Some researchers have considered demographic factors such as population increase [4][5][6][7], population density [8][9][10] and migration from rural to urban areas to be key drivers in LULCC [11][12][13].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Driving Forces behind Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review

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This paper is based on reviewing the literature in the past 10 years on the drivers of land use and land cover change (LULCC) in urban areas. It combines quantitative and qualitative keyword analysis of papers drawn out from the Scopus database. The analysis is primarily based on the number of mentions of keywords in the titles and abstracts of the papers, in addition to the number of keywords appearing in the papers. On the basis of content analysis, a three-level structural categorization of the driving factors was developed. These are presented in a schematic diagram, where the contextual factors are shown as influencing economic and financial factors and policy and regulation, which in turn influences transportation investments and availability, and industrial and residential location choices. Transportation availability was seen as the most frequent factor identified in the literature. This research contends that LULCC is mostly determined by interactions among these four themes in a three-level structure, and on this basis, a model is presented that illustrates LULCC drivers based on local circumstances across the globe.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Driving Forces behind Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review

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“…The highly fragmented cultural landscapes evolved into a dense forest continuum that resulted from rural population exodus, extensive afforestation efforts to grow commercial softwood, farmland abandonment, and livestock confinement [12][13][14][15][16]. The suburban sprawl around city centers expanded into the surrounding agricultural plains [17,18], and rapid-growing conifer species and shrublands invaded abandoned olive groves, vineyards, small arable land parcels, and grasslands [19]. Likewise, large areas of human-shaped open woodlands known as montados or dehesas evolved into a mixture of scrubland and dense coppice forests [20,21].…”

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Assessing Wildfire Exposure to Communities and Protected Areas in Portugal

Alcasena

Ager

Page³

et al. 2021

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During the 2017 wildfire season in Portugal, unprecedented episodes burned 6% of the country’s area and underscored the need for a long-term comprehensive solution to mitigate future wildfire disasters. In this study, we built and calibrated a national-scale fire simulation system including the underlying fuels and weather data and used the system to quantify wildfire exposure to communities and natural areas. We simulated 10,000 fire season replicates under extreme weather to generate 1.6 million large wildfire perimeters and estimate annual burn probability and fire intensity at 100 m pixel resolution. These outputs were used to estimate wildfire exposure to buildings and natural areas. The results showed a fire exposure of 10,394 structures per year and that 30% of communities accounted for 82% of the total. The predicted burned area in natural sites was 18,257 ha yr−1, of which 9.8% was protected land where fuel management is not permitted. The main burn probability hotspots were in central and northern regions. We highlighted vital priorities to safeguard the most vulnerable communities and promote landscape management programs at the national level. The results can be useful to inform Portugal’s new national plan under implementation, where decision-making is based on a probabilistic methodology. The core strategies include protecting people and infrastructure and wildfire management. Finally, we discuss the next steps necessary to improve and operationalize the framework developed here. The wildfire simulation modeling approach presented in this study is extensible to other fire-prone Mediterranean regions where predicting catastrophic fires can help anticipate future disasters.

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“…However, the evaluation of long-term changes depends on the possibility of detailed mapping of the habitats forming the land cover [5]. Such evaluation has only become possible in the post-WW2 era by applying modern remote sensing methods using aerial images; nowadays, such methods are used frequently [6][7][8][9]. For evaluation of historically older periods, the land cover mapping often uses historical topographic maps [10,11], but these maps do not provide sufficient detail to make it possible to evaluate the retention potential of the landscape.…”

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The Relationship among Precipitation, Application of Salt in Winter Road Maintenance and the Quality of Waterways and Soil around Motorway

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Bucková

Hegrová

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Construction of motorways and road traffic bring a new line element into the landscape, which fundamentally influences the local hydrological regime and water quality. Impermeable surfaces are introduced into the landscape, affecting the natural infiltration of water in the environment. The aim of the present research was to assess the long-term historical development of changes in the landscape retention potential due to construction of the D1 motorway in the Jihlava region and also evaluate the impact of winter maintenance on the quality of surface waters and soils. During the reference period, the research area showed an increase in land take and related increases in soil sealing by impermeable surfaces due to the construction of the D1 motorway. This fact has clearly contributed to the deterioration of the retention potential of the landscape in the area. Chloride concentrations of both matrices were evaluated in relation to the amount of de-icing salt applied at the sites and precipitation recorded in this region. Water samples collected at the outflow contained in all cases higher concentrations of chloride than samples of the inflow water. The highest chloride concentration in soil was measured in samples collected at a distance of 2 m from the road.

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Long-term land-use changes in small/medium-sized cities. Enhancing the general trends and local characteristics

Abstract: Santos (2019) Long-term land-use changes in small/medium-sized cities. Enhancing the general trends and local characteristics,

Cited by 11 publications

References 59 publications

Driving Forces behind Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review

Driving Forces behind Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review

Assessing Wildfire Exposure to Communities and Protected Areas in Portugal

The Relationship among Precipitation, Application of Salt in Winter Road Maintenance and the Quality of Waterways and Soil around Motorway

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