The territorial dynamics of fast-growing regions: Unsustainable land use change and future policy challenges in Madrid, Spain

Hewitt, Richard J.; Escobar, Francisco

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.11.002

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“…Previous studies which used CLC as the LULC information source showed that urban land increased by more than 30,000 ha, an annual growth rate of 4.77%, when at this time, the population grew scarcely 0.8% a year. Furthermore, in these years the surface area under construction grew by 200% (Hewitt & Escobar, 2011;Rocha, Delgado, & Sendra, 2009). This growth of urban land, in a situation of demographic stability, a result of the increase in the available built-up area per person, transforming in only 5 years (de 1996 a 2001) from 153 to 179 m 2 per inhabitant (de Lucio, 2003).…”

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A highly detailed land-use vector map for Madrid region based on photo-interpretation

Pacheco

Palomares

2014

Journal of Maps

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Land Use -Land Cover (LULC) maps have developed remarkably since the global community became aware of the importance of knowing where LULC change is taking place on the Earth's surface. The rapid evolution of geographic information data handling and the automation of satellite image interpretation through remote sensing techniques and algorithms is providing increasingly abundant and up-to-date information on LULC. In addition, at large detail scales, it is important to link LULC maps to available statistical information, such as census information and business activities, which allow land parcels to be more accurately classified. Though automated classification methods can produce useful maps at smaller detail scales, it is not usually possible to accurately map urban areas at large scales without considerable investment of human resources. The development of large-scale information for urban areas is very important, especially in urban areas with accelerated rates of urban change which may jeopardize natural resources and citizens' quality of life. In this paper, the creation of a set of large detail scale LULC maps and accompanying geodatabase for one such dynamic urban change region, the Madrid Autonomous Community (AC), Spain, is discussed.

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A highly detailed land-use vector map for Madrid region based on photo-interpretation

Pacheco

Palomares

2014

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“…In Europe, although reusing peri-urban brownfields or simply abandoned areas, together with a better use of infrastructures are considered 'retro-fitting' measures to control sprawl, promoting self-contained urban expansion within a sustainable land management framework is a challenging policy target [16,17]. The consideration of the impact of European Union policy and instruments on land development strategies is not straightforward.…”

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Long-Term Urban Growth and Land Use Efficiency in Southern Europe: Implications for Sustainable Land Management

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Abstract:The present study illustrates a multidimensional analysis of an indicator of urban land use efficiency (per-capita built-up area, LUE) in mainland Attica, a Mediterranean urban region, along different expansion waves : compaction and densification in the 1960s, dispersed growth along the coasts and on Athens' fringe in the 1970s, fringe consolidation in the 1980s, moderate re-polarization and discontinuous expansion in the 1990s and sprawl in remote areas in the 2000s. The non-linear trend in LUE (a continuous increase up to the 1980s and a moderate decrease in 1990 and 2000 preceding the rise observed over the last decade) reflects Athens' expansion waves. A total of 23 indicators were collected by decade for each municipality of the study area with the aim of identifying the drivers of land use efficiency. In 1960, municipalities with low efficiency in the use of land were concentrated on both coastal areas and Athens' fringe, while in 2010, the lowest efficiency rate was observed in the most remote, rural areas. Typical urban functions (e.g., mixed land uses, multiple-use buildings, vertical profile) are the variables most associated with high efficiency in the use of land. Policies for sustainable land management should consider local and regional factors shaping land use efficiency promoting self-contained expansion and more tightly protecting rural and remote land from dispersed urbanization. LUE is a OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 3360 promising indicator reflecting the increased complexity of growth patterns and may anticipate future urban trends.

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“…The protected areas (PAs) of the region of Madrid face numerous pressures, mainly from massive visitor use and intensive land-use transformation (Rodríguez-Rodríguez, 2008;Hewitt and Escobar, 2011;Pérez-Hugalde et al, 2011), in addition to more general threats arising from global change, such as climate change (Araújo et al, 2011). These dynamics raise concern that effective longterm conservation of biodiversity and related goods and services provided by the region's ecosystems cannot be achieved despite the fact that up to 46% of its territory is under some kind of protection regime (Mata et al, 2009).…”

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“…In contrast, the PAs that score least in the SEI are those around the city of Madrid: Cuenca Alta RP (SEI = 0), Sureste RP (SEI = 0) and Guadarrama RP (SEI = 0.3). The numerous municipalities included within these PAs, the general absence of local sustainability plans in those municipalities, private ownership of land, and the negative land-use changes (Hewitt and Escobar, 2011) which have been taking place result in an unsustainable social and economic context for these PAs, which represent over 88% of the total assessed area. Reinforcing local sustainability from an ecological territorial planning perspective is, therefore, of utmost urgency in the Region (Mata et al, 2009;Rodríguez-Rodríguez, 2012).…”

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Results of the implementation of the System for the Integrated Assessment of Protected Areas (SIAPA) to the protected areas of the Autonomous Region of Madrid (Spain)

Rodríguez‐Rodríguez

Martínez‐Vega

2013

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Abstract:The long-term conservation of biodiversity and related ecosystems goods and services of the Autonomous Region of Madrid is jeopardized by the intensive resource-consuming development model followed by the region in the past few decades. This paper presents the aggregated results of the first integrated assessment of the protected areas of the Autonomous Region of Madrid (Spain) Although not as relevant as was thought, "Management" and the other non-significant factors are likely to influence the effectiveness of protected areas as well. The results for the Simplified Model are slightly better than those for the Complete Model, although this is probably a specific result of this assessment. The two models of the SIAPA were very significantly correlated, although their aggregated results should not be compared directly.

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The territorial dynamics of fast-growing regions: Unsustainable land use change and future policy challenges in Madrid, Spain

Cited by 78 publications

References 27 publications

A highly detailed land-use vector map for Madrid region based on photo-interpretation

A highly detailed land-use vector map for Madrid region based on photo-interpretation

Long-Term Urban Growth and Land Use Efficiency in Southern Europe: Implications for Sustainable Land Management

Results of the implementation of the System for the Integrated Assessment of Protected Areas (SIAPA) to the protected areas of the Autonomous Region of Madrid (Spain)

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