Six decades of urban green change in a neotropical city: a case study of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

Lemoine-Rodríguez, Richard; MacGregor-Fors, Ian; Muñoz-­Robles, Carlos

doi:10.1007/s11252-019-00839-9

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“…Sin embargo, las porciones de ANP que se encuentran dentro de las delimitaciones de la ciudad de acuerdo con el Marco Geoestadístico Nacional de 2019 (INEGI, 2019), principalmente las de la Reserva Archipiélago de Xalapa, están en riesgo de desaparecer o disminuir, debido a las dinámicas de apropiación del territorio de los asentamientos irregulares y a la urbanización no planeada de la ciudad (Benítez-Badillo et al, 2012;Lemoine-Rodríguez et al, 2019). Esto es, gran parte de los polígonos de la Reserva Archipiélago de Xalapa se ubican en las áreas periféricas de la ciudad, las cuales tienen los índices de marginación más altos, aunado al crecimiento no planeado de la ciudad y la apropiación no regulada del territorio.…”

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“…Particularmente en Xalapa, se han realizado algunos estudios sobre sus áreas verdes públicas, los cuales reflejan diferentes enfoques y disciplinas, necesarios para el manejo y la planeación integral de estas áreas en la ciudad. Estos estudios incluyen aspectos como riqueza y descripción de la composición florística de las áreas verdes urbanas (Arias-Hernández, 1983;Capitanachi y Amante, 1995;Falfán y MacGregor-Fors, 2016;Ruiz-Montiel et al, 2014); la propuesta de pautas sobre su categorización y su cuantificación por habitante (García-Campos, 1993); su estado de conservación (Álvarez-Palacios, 2002); la evaluación de los cambios en cobertura vegetal a través diferentes décadas (Lemoine-Rodríguez et al, 2019), y la evaluación de intervenciones y estrategias para su rescate y conservación como espacios públicos (Chávez-Alaffita et al, 2020).…”

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Distribución espacial de las áreas verdes urbanas en Xalapa, México: un caso de inequidad

Carmona-Ortega

Falfán

Lascurain-Rangel

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Las áreas verdes proporcionan beneficios y servicios ambientales y sociales a la población, sin embargo, generalmente, se distribuyen heterogéneamente en las ciudades, ligado a un aprovisionamiento desigual de tales beneficios, con implicaciones de justicia ambiental. Con base en un análisis cartográfico y estadístico, se evaluó la dotación y distribución espacial de las áreas verdes urbanas públicas en Xalapa, México, así como su relación con el Índice de Marginación Urbana del Consejo Nacional de Población. En Xalapa, la distribución de las áreas verdes mostró un patrón agrupado; el 47 % de las colonias de la ciudad no cuentan con áreas verdes y la menor dotación y superficie de áreas verdes estuvieron relacionadas con altos índices de marginación. Como en muchas otras ciudades en México, lo anterior constituye un indicio de una falta de justicia ambiental distributiva en la ciudad, así como de una necesidad de planteamientos de diseño y rediseño viables para el alcance de una dotación menos heterogénea de áreas verdes en la ciudad.

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Distribución espacial de las áreas verdes urbanas en Xalapa, México: un caso de inequidad

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Falfán

Lascurain-Rangel

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“…Raw abundance data was recorded through standardized monitoring programs based on 3 km line transects 45 . To determine the distance between the studied settlements and Manresa, we measured the extent of each town by delimiting the polygon of their built continuum (from which we retrieved their size), following the parameters of building clustering and communication specified by MacGregor-Fors 46 and Lemoine-Rodríguez et al 47 . Briefly, this procedure consists of drawing the boundaries of the urbanized continuum by visually identifying the continuity of their built infrastructure, taking into account the connectivity (through identifiable paved roads) of built aggregations, using high-resolution satellite imagery.…”

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House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) escape behavior is triggered faster in smaller settlements

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A recurrent behavioral trait model to study adaptation to urban environments is the flight initiation distance (FID), measured as the distance at which animals flee from an approaching threat. It has previously been shown that urban birds display shorter FID than their non-urban (rural) counterparts. However, discerning whether this is the result of habituation to human presence and frequentation, or of ecological factors related to the size of the city (considered as “systemic habituation”), has not yet been addressed. In this study, we analyzed House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) FIDs in a network of 26 small towns and villages within the same region in northeastern Spain. Our aim was to relate FID to human population density and settlement size. If the habituation to human presence hypothesis was supported, we should expect FIDs to decrease with the density of the human population across the human settlements, since this type of habituation is related to the rate of human exposure and this is proportional to human density. However, if the systemic habituation hypothesis was supported, FIDs should instead relate to the size of the human settlements, as the abundance of predators, similarly to other ecological variables, is often proportional to the size of towns. Results showed House Sparrows to be bolder in larger human settlements, but not necessarily the ones with a higher density of human population. This supports the idea that the fact that urban birds display shorter FIDs than their rural counterparts is the result of systemic ecological factors rather than the results of a simple habituation to humans.

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“…Landscape metrics are based on information theory and fractal geometry concepts to characterize the urban sprawl (Wang et al, 2018 ). Entropy indexes such as Shannon’s entropy Index, relative entropy index, and structure entropy index are used to assess the intensity of urban sprawl (Jiang et al 2016 ; Lemoine-Rodríguez et al 2019 ). Further, urban sprawl can be categorized into infill development, edge-expansion, and outlying growth based on the pattern of new built-up units surrounding the old built-up (Chettry and Surawar 2021a ).…”

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Peri-urban area delineation and urban sprawl quantification in Thiruvananthapuram Urban Agglomeration, India, from 2001 to 2021 using geoinformatics

Chettry

2022

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In Southeast Asia, rising population, economic growth, and lack of land supply in the city core have led to the widespread irreversible land cover transformation in peri-urban areas. Such extensive and haphazard urban growth in peri-urban areas raises concern about analyzing and promoting planned urban growth. Therefore, this paper attempts to assess land cover changes from 2001 to 2021 and delineate peri-urban areas of a midsized Indian city, i.e., Thiruvananthapuram Urban Agglomeration (UA) using geoinformatics. The maximum likelihood supervised classification tool in ArcGIS 10.3 was used to prepare land cover maps for 2001, 2007, 2014, and 2021. Further, the presence of urban sprawl in the peri-urban areas was detected through Shannon’s entropy index. The urban sprawl typologies in the peri-urban areas were quantified using the adjacent neighborhood relationships concept. The results revealed rapid growth in built-up land cover and decline in non-built-up land cover within Thiruvananthapuram UA during the study period. Peri-urban areas were delineated based on nine indicators, such as total population, population growth, population density, literacy rate, percentage of the male workforce, percentage of the female workforce, agricultural land cover, distance from urban core, and percentage of cultivators to agricultural workers. A rise in Shannon’s entropy index from 1.59 in 2001 to 2.05 in 2021 exhibited the occurrence of rapid urban sprawl in the peri-urban areas. Dominance of discontinuous low-density development, i.e., scatter development typology of urban sprawl, was observed in peri-urban areas of Thiruvananthapuram UA. Such studies using geoinformatics would assist local governments in scientifically formulating sustainable urban policies and plans.

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Six decades of urban green change in a neotropical city: a case study of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

Distribución espacial de las áreas verdes urbanas en Xalapa, México: un caso de inequidad

Distribución espacial de las áreas verdes urbanas en Xalapa, México: un caso de inequidad

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) escape behavior is triggered faster in smaller settlements

Peri-urban area delineation and urban sprawl quantification in Thiruvananthapuram Urban Agglomeration, India, from 2001 to 2021 using geoinformatics

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