La Huerta de Murcia: landscape guidelines for a peri‐urban territory

Olmo, Rafael Mata; Muñoz, Santiago Fernández

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“…What is more, the plan is clearly aligned with other guidelines and recommendations suggested in the literature on planning and protection of peri-urban agricultural spaces [41], [68]- [70]. These can be summarized as follows: the development of an agro-environmental plan or programme to guarantee the maintenance of agricultural activities; a strategy to promote the provision of organic, local and healthy food; actions to protect traditional elements of the rural system; the improvement and restoration of degraded landscapes; the enhancement of landscape vision through sightseeing routs, visitors' interpretation and information programmes and the creation of a visitors' centre; and the promotion of public participation in planning.…”

Section: New Planning Instruments For L'horta Landscape: L'horta Law mentioning

confidence: 79%

“…A review of the literature on traditional agricultural landscapes in Spain also reveals shared patterns, despite differences concerning the proximity to urban centers and touristic areas as well as accessibility. These patterns are a decrease of productive activities, the emergence of other land uses (especially infrastructures and urban amenities), changes in traditional crops, the deterioration of built heritage and a general neglect of landscape value and management [38]- [41]. Following Antrop [12], the main driving forces of landscape negative change can be synthesized in three interrelated phenomena: accessibility, urbanization and globalization.…”

Section: Driving Forces For Landscape Change In L'mentioning

confidence: 99%

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l’Horta De València: Past and present dynamics in landscape change and planning

Melo-Escrihuela¹

2020

Int. J. SDP

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This paper assesses the evolution in the preservation, management and planning of a cultural landscape: the historical Mediterranean huerta of Valencia, l'Horta de València. After a characterization of l'Horta as a traditional cultural landscape and a description of its main elements and functions, an account of the driving forces behind changes in this landscape is offered. This account highlights the way in which shared patterns of landscape transformation in Europe materialize in the particular case of l'Horta. It is argued that the negative changes and impacts are not simply the outcome of global dynamics but the result of the region's planning trajectory and approach to landscape management. This has been shaped by the lack of a territorial and supra-municipal perspective and the primacy of aspects related to culture, identity and heritage over the productive dimension of the landscape. This claim unfolds through an overview of the planning and policy background that has determined the fate of l'Horta over the past decades and an analysis of the new planning tools recently adopted by the Valencia regional government, L'Horta Law and the Territorial Action Plan for the Management and Revitalization of L'Horta, both from 2018. The paper reflects on the general approach of these documents in the light of the literature on landscape planning and peri-urban agricultural landscapes and assesses the main differences and similarities with respect to the previous institutional and planning contexts.

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Section: New Planning Instruments For L'horta Landscape: L'horta Law mentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Driving Forces For Landscape Change In L'mentioning

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l’Horta De València: Past and present dynamics in landscape change and planning

Melo-Escrihuela¹

2020

Int. J. SDP

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“…2016;Tortora et al 2015). Regarding detailed studies in Spain, some works are related to landscape trends in coastal wetlands and agricultural surrounding environments, for example, the research focusing on the traditional farming area of Murcia (Mata & Fernández 2004;(García -Martín & Ros -Sempere 2016). The inland continental wetlands of the Iberian Peninsula have also been analysed (Vega-Pozuleo et al 2017).…”

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Landscape Dynamics in Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Castelló de la Plana in the Last Hundred Years

Belda-Carrasco¹,

García

Pascual-Aguilar

2019

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The littoral areas of the Mediterranean coastline have undergone a significant transformation due to their historical and intense human occupation. The result has been an evolution of different cultural landscape configurations, ranging from those with a marked agrarian character to artificial ones derived from the process of urbanisation and metropolitan growth. The objective of this paper is to define a model to characterise landscape types and units that explains the landscape dynamics (1910-2015) in Mediterranean coastal spaces at local scale, taking as study area the municipality and surroundings of Castelló de la Plana, in Spain. The aim is to identify the way in which society has appropriated and occupied this space. This research seeks to analyse landscape metrics that link dynamics in both space and time to provide a comprehensive image of landscape dynamics. The methodological procedure is based on the diachronic study of the landscape to discern a pattern of change in the cultural landscape over time and space that allows us to explain the current situation of the landscape and its relationship with urbanisation and urban planning.

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“…The Huerta entails a genuine 10-century long process of agricultural tasks based on the management of the scarce water to produce intensely irrigated cropping [4]. It develops an original settlement system in harmony with environmental peculiarities, supported by an extensive path network to ensure mobility and accessibility [5,6].…”

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The Huerta Agricultural Landscape in the Spanish Mediterranean Arc: One Landscape, Two Perspectives, Three Specific Huertas

Martí

García-Mayor

2020

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The Huerta is recognised as one of the 13 specific agricultural landscapes in Europe, present in only three Mediterranean countries, namely Spain, Italy, and Greece. In the case of Spain, three areas fall within the established Huerta agricultural classification: the Huertas de Valencia, Murcia, and Vega Baja. While all of them share common landscape features, each Huerta has distinguishing singularities which are approached through two perspectives: firstly, the structural tangible elements, related to functional networks—water distribution, pathways networks, settlement patterns, and the agricultural production system; and secondly, the role of the intangible components—connotations of the word Huerta, water management, canal and path upkeep rules, and the administration of these territories. The analysis of the tangible elements and intangible components in the three Spanish Huertas shows these territories as complex and balanced systems that have historically counterbalanced the environmental drawbacks in one of the most arid European regions. Despite being a highly appreciated environmental and productive asset, these Huertas are under intense pressure from urban development in highly urbanized metropolitan areas. This study shows Huertas’ uniqueness through their historical role in the territorial planning and management strategies at the local level, finally depicting Huertas as a present strategical opportunity for reaching environmental goals in peri-urban areas.

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La Huerta de Murcia: landscape guidelines for a peri‐urban territory

Cited by 28 publications

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l’Horta De València: Past and present dynamics in landscape change and planning

l’Horta De València: Past and present dynamics in landscape change and planning

Landscape Dynamics in Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Castelló de la Plana in the Last Hundred Years

The Huerta Agricultural Landscape in the Spanish Mediterranean Arc: One Landscape, Two Perspectives, Three Specific Huertas

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