Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

Nogueira, David Fernández; Rico, Eduardo Corbelle

doi:10.3390/land9010005

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“…Contrasting, agricultural abandonment was predominating in Alcoutim, the most marginalized area for its lower accessibility, shallow soil and hilly topography. This is in agreement with trends described in the literature in marginal Mediterranean areas [10,12,[35][36][37].…”

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Unveiling Contrasting Preferred Trajectories of Local Development in Southeast Portugal

Esgalhado

Guimarães

2020

Land

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Mediterranean land systems are amongst the most susceptible to global change, in part due to the region’s vulnerability to climate change and misfit within a high production demanding political and societal setting. The impact of global drivers at a local scale (i.e., the possible trajectories of change of a territory) are context-dependent, and to some extent dependent on how local actors perceive them and act upon them. In this study, we focused on southeast Portugal and conducted 22 interviews and 1 collective workshop to understand how different actors across the territory anticipate the development of the region and its land systems. From our results, we get a picture of a depopulated territory, constrained by ill-adjusted policies to its harsh conditions, including little water availability and continuous depopulation. We found contrasting preferred trajectories of development for the territory. On one hand, there is a preference for prioritizing traditional land systems, usually rainfed and multifunctional. Contrasting, a need for water reservoirs that would increase water availability and allow for profitable agricultural activities and thus fixate population is recognized. The different perspectives fit with a wider debate on the role of agriculture, intensification and ecosystem services under an increasingly arid Mediterranean. The next challenge is to integrate technical expertise and knowledge with local needs and initiatives, to fit in a broader scale strategic plan. We identify a lack of technical support regarding soil health. Poor soil, from the perspective of several stakeholders, is a characteristic of the region. Knowledge dissemination is urgent so that farmers can proactively improve soil health and benefit from its capacity to increase production and retain water. We urge a higher effort from the scientific community focusing on marginal areas, supporting knowledge dissemination and analysis of the impacts of different trajectories of development.

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Section: Dealing With Changesupporting

confidence: 93%

Unveiling Contrasting Preferred Trajectories of Local Development in Southeast Portugal

Esgalhado

Guimarães

2020

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“…The change in urban land-use structure, and the orderliness and rationality of land-use, are closely related to the urbanization process [23]. A review of related research on urbanization and land-use transition in recent years shows that current studies mainly focus on the role of urbanization in certain dimensions of land-use, such as land-use structure [25,26], land-use efficiency [27] and land-use intensity [28,29]. The effects of land-use transition mainly include the socioeconomic effect [30][31][32] and the eco-environmental effect [33][34][35].…”

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The Evolution of the Interactive Relationship between Urbanization and Land-Use Transition: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta

Niu

Yan

et al. 2021

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In recent years, the impact of land-use systems on global climate change has become increasingly significant, and land-use change has become a hot issue of concern to academics, both within China and abroad. Urbanization, as an important socioeconomic factor, plays a vital role in promoting land-use transition, which also shows a significant spatial dependence on urbanization. This paper constructs a theoretical framework for the interaction relationship between urbanization and land-use transition, taking the Yangtze River Delta as an example, and measures the level of urbanization from the perspective of population urbanization, economic urbanization and social urbanization, while also evaluating the level of land-use morphologies from the perspective of dominant and recessive morphologies of land-use. We construct a PVAR model and coupled coordination model based on the calculated indexes for empirical analysis. The results show that the relationship between urbanization and land-use transition is not a simple linear relationship, but tends to be complex with the process of urbanization, and reasonable urbanization and land-use morphologies will promote further benign coupling in the system. By analyzing the interaction relationship between urbanization and land-use transition, this study enriches the study of land-use change and provides new pathways for thinking about how to promote high-quality urbanization.

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“…. in the intensity of use of agricultural areas have probably been among the most significant" among ongoing land changes [4]. Intensity changes in agriculture and food systems (hence agri-food systems) thus combine with urbanization and climate change as the major drivers of land system transformations in Spain and the Mediterranean [1,2,5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The framework is focused on three themes (Pathways 1-3) and corresponding topics (in boxes). First, we draw on a subset of the above publications (e.g., [1,2,4,5,21,23,24]) to sketch Pathway 1 that guides our research on links between intensification-related transformations of distinct agri-food land systems in Spain and the farm work activities of immigrants (Pathway 1). We then draw on a second group of above-mentioned sources (e.g., [11,[45][46][47][48][50][51][52][58][59][60]) to sketch Pathway 2 that guides our study of the links of immigrant farm worker livelihoods-defined as the activities, experiences, capabilities, strategies, and well-being factors related to their means of living [63]-to agri-food land systems.…”

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Agri-Food Land Transformations and Immigrant Farm Workers in Peri-Urban Areas of Spain and the Mediterranean

Zimmerer

Jiménez-Olivencia

Ruiz-Ruiz

et al. 2020

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Spain is a global hotspot of transformations of agri-food land systems due to changing production intensity, diets, urbanization, market integration, and climate change. Characteristic of the Mediterranean, these expanding intersections with the migration, livelihoods, and food security strategies of immigrant farm workers urge new research into the “who,” “how,” and “why” questions of the transformation of agri-food land systems. Addressing this gap, we communicate preliminary results from field research in the Granada and Madrid areas. We use a novel conceptual framework of linkages among distinct agri-food land systems and the roles and agency of immigrant farm workers. Preliminary results integrating a combined land- and labor-centric approach address: (1) how the recent and ongoing transformations of specific agri-food land systems are indicative of close links to inexpensive, flexible labor of immigrant farm workers; (2) how the connectivity among transformations of multiple distinct agri-food land systems can be related to the geographic mobility of immigrant farm workers and livelihoods (non-farm work, gendered employment, peri-urban residential location, labor recruitment); and (3) how the struggles for food and nutrition security among immigrant farm workers are indicative of links to local sites and networked agrobiodiversity. This study can help advance the nexus of migration-land research with expanding ethical, justice, and policy concerns of land system sciences in relation to the new suite of agri-food interest and initiatives.

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Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

Cited by 20 publications

References 42 publications

Unveiling Contrasting Preferred Trajectories of Local Development in Southeast Portugal

Unveiling Contrasting Preferred Trajectories of Local Development in Southeast Portugal

The Evolution of the Interactive Relationship between Urbanization and Land-Use Transition: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta

Agri-Food Land Transformations and Immigrant Farm Workers in Peri-Urban Areas of Spain and the Mediterranean

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