Impacts of land use change scenarios on hydrology and land use patterns in the Wu-Tu watershed in Northern Taiwan

Lin, Yu‐Pin; Hong, Nien-Ming; Wu, Po-Liang; Wu, Chen‐Fa; Verburg, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.06.007

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“…These negative impacts involve ecological issues, including a reduction in habitat quality and a decrease in biodiversity due to declining habitats [40][41][42]. Furthermore, land use changes can result in an increase in the area of the impermeable layer of the earth's surface, affecting cities' hydrological systems and resulting in increased surface runoff [43][44][45][46] and surface temperature [47][48][49].…”

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Application of Environmental Change Efficiency to the Sustainability of Urban Development at the Neighborhood Level

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This study describes a new assessment model framework, termed the driving forces-pressure-state-impact-policy and pattern (DPSIP) model, for environmental change efficiency in urban land development, based on urban sustainable development and the theory of economic efficiency evaluation. A spatial and measurable efficiency value is defined for environmental changes in urban land development, which provides a comprehensive evaluation index for the efficiency of urban development and its environmental impact. This type of urban interior sustainability is considered new within the context of global environmental changes. We identify nine important indicators to evaluate the relative efficiency of 233 neighborhoods in Tainan, Taiwan. The results indicate that the average environmental change efficiency is 89.44%, which shows clear spatial differentiation. The key indicators affecting the efficiency score are area, population density, location, mixed land uses, the floor area ratio, and the impervious ratio. In the future, urban design can reduce environmental impacts and enhance efficiency values.

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“…The inputs were primarily oriented toward natural environmental resources and the ecological environment, including factors such as surface temperature [57][58][59], surface runoff [2,13,[43][44][45][46], habitat quality [13,[40][41][42]60], and water consumption [2,44,61].…”

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“…The analysis of spatial heterogeneity in vegetation and soil properties can be used to improve predictions of runoff and erosion (Lesschen et al, 2008). Also, landscape metrics help to model watershed hydrological systems and to identify and analyze possible future impacts on land use pattern and hydrology (Lin et al, 2007). There are studies based on the relationship of landscape structure with the hunting community (Jimenez-Garcia et al, 2006), as well as specific studies on the wild boar (Calenge et al, 2004;Hebeisen et al, 2008;Kaden et al, 2005;Monzón & Bento, 2004;Tsachalidis and Hadjisterkotis, 2008), red-legged partridge (Nadal, 2001;Vargas et al, 2006), ducks (Guillemain et al, 2008), mouflon (Garel et al, 2005), wild rabbit (Schröpfer et al, 2000) and some predators (Rico and Torrente, 2000).…”

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A free and open source programming library for landscape metrics calculations

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Landscape metrics are used in a wide range of environmental studies such as land use change and land degradation studies, soil erosion and runoff predictions, management of hunting communities, and strategic planning for environmental management, to name but a few. Due to their utility for a variety of applications, there are many indices and software packages that have been designed to provide calculations and analysis of landscape structure patterns in categorical maps. With the purpose of making a profound comparison between the most used tools (Fragstats, V-Late, PA4…), we examined their advantages and disadvantages in order to create a list of common features that need to be incorporated into this type of software. We believe that an API without limitations on data input is necessary, capable of calculating vector or raster metrics and very extensible. This API should make it possible not only to build third party applications in easily, but would also make it possible to add new metrics and research into new paradigms related to traditional landscape metrics. We have started to develop a proposal based on open standards, which is FOSS. We have called this API Land-metrics DIY (Do It Yourself). It can calculate almost 40 landscape metrics from geometry provided by an ESRI Shapefile, but we are working to complete its contents as we explain in this article.

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“…It is essential to understand causes and effects of such changes on the environment in both developed and developing countries, at both micro and macro levels; for example, a decrease in agricultural and ecological lands in China [9,17], the similar study conducted in the United States [4,16], the rapid growth in the peri-urban zones in developing countries resulted from increased commercial development [18], the growth of urban area in relation to population growth in China [19], and prediction of the effects of land use change on water supply in the watershed area by the model [20]. Such studies illustrate the causes and effects as well as recommendations on integrating the findings into plans and policies under a sustainability goal, as confirmed by the study of Musacchino and Coulson [21] and Brunckhorst et al [22].…”

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Change of Land Use Patterns in the Areas Close to the Airport Development Area and Some Implicating Factors

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2011

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This paper presents the description of land use change in the suburbs near Suvarnabhumi International Airport, with a focus on land use patterns before and during airport development. According to geographic information system (GIS), land use patterns are categorized into three main groups, namely intensive urban development land, areas developed under environmental conditions, and natural land. Steps of land use changes, land use planning and related factors concerning number of population, dwelling units and factories were analyzed. In the short term, urban development dramatically increases by 39.97% whereas the areas developed under environmental conditions decreased by 37.52%, with significant correlation (P < 0.05). The natural land which is typically grassland and watercourses changed insignificantly (P > 0.05). Urbanization of the areas where the airport is located increased between 10.07% and 15.57%. The changes of land use comply with the Integrated Town and Country Planning. The areas where urbanization is small are under the area designated as the green area. Urban expansion is mainly a result of increase in residential areas which is closely related to number of population. Such changes indicate a need for more effective urban development planning and management to conserve environmental quality.

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Impacts of land use change scenarios on hydrology and land use patterns in the Wu-Tu watershed in Northern Taiwan

Cited by 156 publications

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Application of Environmental Change Efficiency to the Sustainability of Urban Development at the Neighborhood Level

Application of Environmental Change Efficiency to the Sustainability of Urban Development at the Neighborhood Level

A free and open source programming library for landscape metrics calculations

Change of Land Use Patterns in the Areas Close to the Airport Development Area and Some Implicating Factors

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