Land-use configuration under traditional agriculture in the Kanto Plain, Japan: a historical GIS analysis

Sprague, David S.

doi:10.1080/13658816.2012.665923

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“…Analyses of historic maps using Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are an important tool with which to link history and processes in cultural landscapes (Fensham, Powell, & B, 2011;Haase, Walz, Neubert, & Rosenberg, 2007;Levin, Elron, & Gasith, 2009;Stabbetorp, Sollund, Brendalsmo, & Norderhaug, 2007;Vrana, 1989), assessing land use configurations in agricultural landscapes (Sprague, 2012) and understanding specific features of cultural landscapes (Bender, Boehmer, Jens, & Schumacher, 2005;Hamre, Domaas, Austad, & Rydgren, 2007). The methodology applied to map cultural landscape continuity in this paper focused on identifying patches that were covered by the same land cover type in 1912, 1980 and 2009.…”

Section: Is the Historical Continuity Of Land Cover Types An Approprimentioning

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Landscape persistence and stakeholder perspectives: The case of Romania's Carpathians

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Section: Is the Historical Continuity Of Land Cover Types An Approprimentioning

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“…Rice is clearly located on flat landforms at low elevations. These results clearly show that the landscape pattern in this area is entirely different from the typical self-sufficient rice-based Satoyama landscape, in which rice paddies in valleys are surrounded by coppice forest and grassland [5,7]. Table 1 also summarizes the parcel characteristics.…”

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“…A study of long-term changes in land-use using geographic information system (GIS) data revealed that this landscape used to be quite dynamic, with rice, other vegetable crops, and forests sometimes cultivated reversibly in the same plots over time [6]. A quantitative study of traditional Satoyama land-use patterns in connection to micro-landforms also found that sequential landscape patches used to consist of valley rice fields, with surrounding grassland used for fertilizer and coppice forests used for fuel, showing a possible pattern of traditional recyclable utilization of bioresources at the village scale [7]. Particularly when fossil fuel use became much more common after the 1960s, such traditional dynamic Satoyama landscapes came to be underused and were eventually abandoned [6].…”

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The Minabe-Tanabe Ume System: Linkage of Landscape Units by Locals

Hara

Sampei

2018

Sustainability

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This paper focuses on the Minabe-Tanabe Ume system, which was designated as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in December of 2015. Because landholdings reflect historical social connections among various landscape units, we quantitatively examined the landscape characteristics of the system by preparing digitized spatial data and performing geographic information system analysis. We also examined the consensus building process among different stakeholders toward GIAHS recognition, as well as the emergent local spatial structure of the stakeholder network through interviews with key stakeholders and participatory monitoring. Our spatial analysis of the landscape generally supported the traditional knowledge of the area as a watershed-based mosaic of coppice forests on ridges, Ume orchards on sloped areas, and villages with rice paddies and dry fields in the plains. Our stakeholder network visualization identified several key persons as important nodes that could connect different types of land use now and may have done so in the past. Moreover, because our GIAHS site has compact agglomerations of watersheds with ranges within a~30-min drive, most stakeholders, who turned out to have graduated from the same local school, are able to maximize their social capital to reorganize the remaining nodes among different land uses, thereby contributing to the formation of the land-use system and its further promotion through dynamic conservation measures.

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“…Based on PF selection results from the LESA framework, the PFPAs were demarcated using GIS spatial analysis, which was widely used in the ecological planning47, natural evolution process48, urbanization process49, and rural landscape evaluation50. Our study included three types of GIS spatial analysis methods (Fig.…”

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Demarcation of Prime Farmland Protection Areas around a Metropolis Based on High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

Xia

Wang

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Sci Rep

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Prime farmland (PF) is defined as high-quality farmland and a prime farmland protection area (PFPA, including related roads, waters and facilities) is a region designated for the special protection of PF. However, rapid urbanization in China has led to a tremendous farmland loss and to the degradation of farmland quality. Based on remote sensing and geographic information system technology, this study developed a semiautomatic procedure for designating PFPAs using high-resolution satellite imagery (HRSI), which involved object-based image analysis, farmland composite evaluation, and spatial analysis. It was found that the HRSIs can provide elaborate land-use information, and the PFPA demarcation showed strong correlation with the farmland area and patch distance. For the benefit of spatial planning and management, different demarcation rules should be applied for suburban and exurban areas around a metropolis. Finally, the overall accuracy of HRSI classification was about 80% for the study area, and high-quality farmlands from evaluation results were selected as PFs. About 95% of the PFs were demarcated within the PFPAs. The results of this study will be useful for PFPA planning and the methods outlined could help in the automatic designation of PFPAs from the perspective of the spatial science.

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Land-use configuration under traditional agriculture in the Kanto Plain, Japan: a historical GIS analysis

Cited by 15 publications

References 40 publications

Landscape persistence and stakeholder perspectives: The case of Romania's Carpathians

Landscape persistence and stakeholder perspectives: The case of Romania's Carpathians

The Minabe-Tanabe Ume System: Linkage of Landscape Units by Locals

Demarcation of Prime Farmland Protection Areas around a Metropolis Based on High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

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