The analysis of urban pressure on protected areas on the example of puszczykowo commune

Zydroń, Adam; Antkowiak, Magdalena; Lisiak, Marta; Szczepański, Piotr

doi:10.18276/sip.2016.46/1-32

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“…Urbanization leads to many conflicts against the human-environment infrastructure background [36]. Urban sprawl into rural areas causes many environmental and spatial problems, e.g., destruction of forest areas, impoverishment of soil [37], the emergence of new forms of land use [38], and excessive tourist and recreational pressure [39]. Intensive development of recreational infrastructure was observed in the Masovian Landscape Park and its buffer zone since the beginning of this century [40].…”

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Influence of Urbanization Processes on the Dynamics and Scale of Spatial Transformations in the Mazowiecki Landscape Park

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This paper explores how urbanization processes, since the 1950s, affected forested areas in the Mazowiecki Landscape Park and determines if these processes resulted in a significant reduction of forest. Spatial analyses, which were used to generate very detailed data on the area of forests, agricultural land, and development areas, were carried out, and the spatial directions of the changes were determined. The results indicate that, in comparison to the 1950s, in the 1990s, the forest area did not decrease, but, in fact, increased, despite a significant increase in the development area, both in the present area of the park and in its buffer zone. This was due to the fact that new buildings were constructed in mainly agricultural areas. At the same time, intensive afforestation of weak soils, mainly inland dunes, was carried out in this area. Comparing the current period to the 1990s, further dynamic growth of the development area can be observed, especially in the park's protective zone, with a simultaneous decrease in the forest area and agricultural land.

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Influence of Urbanization Processes on the Dynamics and Scale of Spatial Transformations in the Mazowiecki Landscape Park

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“…However, not all protected areas are fulfilling their conservation objectives [12][13][14][15]. As the human population increases, pressures on habitats are intensifying with unknown consequences for protected area effectiveness [16][17][18][19][20], and recent work has identified a range of drivers of biodiversity loss in protected areas [18][19][20][21][22].…”

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Landscape Changes in Protected Areas in Poland

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2022

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Land-Use Cover Changes (LUCCs) are one of the main problems for the preservation of landscapes and natural biodiversity. Protected Areas (PAs) do not escape this threat. Poland is among the European leaders in terms of the variety of landscapes and the share of an area designated as a protected area. However, as many as 78% of the habitats have poor or bad conservation status based on EEA reports. This article analyzes the LUCCs between 2000 and 2018 in various types of the Polish legal forms of nature protection areas and the European Natura 2000 network within the country. The research material was: the data of Corine Land Cover (CLC), the Central Register of Nature Protection Forms, and high-resolution layers, such as HRL and orthophotos. The results were compiled according to the CLC class and forms of protection. The matrix of transformations showed that the most frequently transformed CLC class was 312 (coniferous forest). It was transformed into class 324 (transitional woodland shrubs). The changes in PAs were usually smaller than in the surrounding buffer zones, which may indicate their effectiveness. The exception was the areas of the European Natura 2000 network. The scale of land-cover flows (LCFs) changed within particular forms of protected areas, though afforestation and deforestation predominating in all area types. National reserves and parks were the most stable in terms of land cover structures. However, human settlements increased around the protected areas, potentially increasing threats to their ecological integrity.

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The analysis of urban pressure on protected areas on the example of puszczykowo commune

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Influence of Urbanization Processes on the Dynamics and Scale of Spatial Transformations in the Mazowiecki Landscape Park

Influence of Urbanization Processes on the Dynamics and Scale of Spatial Transformations in the Mazowiecki Landscape Park

Landscape Changes in Protected Areas in Poland

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