Advancing contiguous environmental land allocation analysis, planning and modeling

Murray, Alan T.; Church, Richard L.; Pludow, B. Amelia; Stine, Peter

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2022.2041120

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“…Conducted studies are based on a plethora of quantitative indicators related to the Earth's surface, either explicitly or implicitly [3], and use Earth observation or statistical data [16]. The loss of agricultural land and deforestation are investigated in relation to sustainable agriculture [17,18], climate change [19], landscape change [20], biodiversity deterioration [10,21], the degradation of ecosystem services [10,22], human health and human well-being [23]. Academics have also revealed that environmentally friendly land use change in rural and forest areas is inextricably linked to the multifunctionality paradigm [24][25][26][27], which provides opportunities for agriculture and forestry to produce goods and services as public goods and uses local natural resources to establish producer-consumer relationships at the local level.…”

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The Spatiotemporal Analysis of Land Take Exemplified by Poland

Elzbieta

2024

Sustainability

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The research was motivated by the growing interest of scientists and practitioners in land consumption. It was assumed that the multifaceted and space–time analysis of the dynamics of land use change reveals agricultural and forest land conversion into artificial areas, and thus highlight the regions of high human pressure. To fulfill the research objective, the proprietary coefficient of admissible (maximal) land take (aLT) was used. This study, based on open, publicly available spatial and statistical data, presents agricultural and forest land losses in four periods (2005, 2010, 2015, 2020) in Polish provinces. The analysis reveals both the value and the trend of land take and indicates Mazowieckie and Małopolska as the provinces of the highest land take pace since 2005. In contrast, provinces such as Zachodnio-Pomorskie and Opolskie, located in the northwest and southwest of Poland, are characterized by small and decreasing losses of agricultural and forest land, prompting them to be classified as lower outliers. The paper concludes, in part, that admissible (maximal) land take (aLT) is a useful tool for monitoring land conversion and planning spatial development of any region in the world.

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