The Impact of the European Landscape Convention on Landscape Planning in Spain, Italy and England

Matteucci, Stefano Civitarese; Cartei, Gian Franco

doi:10.1093/jel/eqac004

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“…In addition, the treaty aims to promote the protection, management, and planning of European landscapes of individual countries and organize cooperation on widely understood landscape issues (Déjeant-Pons, 2006;Olwig, 2007). Challenges of implementing participation in the European Landscapes Convention resulted in unique approaches to environmental management among signatory countries (Jones & Stenseke, 2011;Scott, 2011;Roe, 2013;De Montis, 2014;Dempsey & Wilbrand, 2017;Dovlén, 2016;Trykacz & Bernat, 2022;Civitarese Matteucci & Cartei, 2022).…”

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Challenges of a GIS-based physical-geographical regionalization of Poland

Piniarski

2023

Environ Monit Assess

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Poland’s traditional, i.e., non-GIS, regionalization needed to be updated for landscape audit purposes. Its spatial accuracy appeared insufficient, which led to the verification and adjustment of the existing physical-geographical mesoregions using GIS and high-resolution spatial data. In Poland, provincial landscape audits are part of implementing the European Landscape Convention to Polish law order, which led to the renewal of interest in the natural spatial division of the country. To date, there is no unified division of the entire country into microregions, which in Poland are commonly perceived as the most appropriate natural spatial units for local-scale landscape analysis and management. Microregions are lower-rank spatial units than already existing mesoregions. Both are distinguished by a homogenous landscape defined within the specific area by common physical-geographical characteristics of the land. Nevertheless, each is recognized at different scales and levels of generality. This paper focuses on reviewing the current challenges of the physical-geographical regionalization of Poland. Their fundamentals were identified through a systematic literature review. It also presents all the problems encountered within implementing GIS in the microregionalization procedure, which was already used for the Greater Poland Voivodeship landscape audit. In general, all traditional methodologies related to the physical-geographical regionalization of Poland require the introduction of GIS solutions to meet the current expectations from the country’s contemporary natural spatial division. The landscape contrast analysis method proved to be a promising method of GIS-based regionalization. It has the potential to become a universal solution to the existing problems with a unified physical-geographical microregionalization of Poland. However, some hard-to-overcome obstacles are related to the availability, collection, and processing of all required thematic spatial data. Nonetheless, it is highly expected to develop a universal procedure of microregionalization and distinguish low-rank units for the entire country.

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Challenges of a GIS-based physical-geographical regionalization of Poland

Piniarski

2023

Environ Monit Assess

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“…At the same time, a large number of research is devoted to the study of anthropogenic transformation of landscapes [23][24][25][26] as well as the emergence of risks arising from these changes [27][28][29]. To achieve the goals of sustainable development and leveling the adverse effects of anthropogenic impact, many researchers use the concept of landscape planning [30][31][32].…”

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Anthropogenic Transformation of the River Basins of the Northwestern Slope of the Crimean Mountains (The Crimean Peninsula)

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Gorbunov

Gorbunova

2022

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The territory of the Crimean Peninsula is extensively subject to economic activities. In this connection, there is an ever-increasing impact on the environment. The present paper presents an analysis of the transformation of the area of the largest river basins of the northwestern slope of the Crimean Mountains (basins of the Zapadnyy Bulganak, Alma, Kacha, Belbek, and Chernaya rivers). For this purpose, various indicators characterizing the transformation of the area were calculated: coefficient of anthropogenic transformation; land degradation index; urbanity index; level of anthropogenic transformation; coefficient of absolute and relative intensities of ecological and economic land use distribution. The results show that the anthropogenic transformation of the area defined by the basins of the Zapadnyy Bulganak, Alma, Kacha, Belbek, and Chernaya rivers increases from the southeast to the northwest as the absolute height decreases, and when moving from river source to mouth. Among the basins under consideration, anthropogenic transformation is greatest In the Zapadnyy Bulganak River basin and lowest in the Chernaya River basin. Among the basins under consideration, anthropogenic transformation decreases from north to south in the following order: Zapadnyy Bulganak River basin, Alma River basin, Kacha River basin, Belbek River basin, Chernaya River basin. This is due to reduced impacts of economic activity within each respective basin.

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“…For example: if a forest is completely destroyed, a steppe or forest-steppe is created in its place. In the modern stage of development of landscape complexes, anthropogenic factors, along with natural-geographical factors, dominate their change [5].…”

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Analysis of the Regularity of Distribution of Natural Landscapes in the Greater Caucasus Depending on Physical-Geographical Characteristics Using GIS Technology

Hajiyeva,

Jafarova

2024

C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci.

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Natural geographic conditions play an important role in the formation and development of landscapes. Various factors of natural conditions, especially the absolute height of the relief, slope, aspect, horizontal and vertical fragmentation, have been widely studied since the 20th century. Nowadays, these factors are studied through geographic information technologies, on the basis of satellite images and Remote Sensing materials. Therefore, our research is dedicated to the actual topic. We also conducted analyses based on modern methods in the Great Caucasus natural region, which is our research area. At this time, we have analyzed the absolute height of the relief, aspect and inclination of the slopes using the Digital Elevation Model of the area. As a result of the conducted researches, we have determined that desert and semi-desert landscapes were formed in areas with low absolute height and inclination, and forest, alpine, subalpine, nival and subnival landscapes were formed in areas with high absolute height and inclination. Forests are mostly found on the northern slopes, and semi-desert and desert landscapes are widespread on the southern slopes.

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The Impact of the European Landscape Convention on Landscape Planning in Spain, Italy and England

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Challenges of a GIS-based physical-geographical regionalization of Poland

Challenges of a GIS-based physical-geographical regionalization of Poland

Anthropogenic Transformation of the River Basins of the Northwestern Slope of the Crimean Mountains (The Crimean Peninsula)

Analysis of the Regularity of Distribution of Natural Landscapes in the Greater Caucasus Depending on Physical-Geographical Characteristics Using GIS Technology

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