Tools for Modelling and Assessing Peri-Urban Land Use Futures

Haase, Dagmar; Piorr, Annette; Schwarz, Nina; Rickebusch, Sophie; Kroll, Franziska; Delden, Hedwig van; Zuin, Affonso Henrique Lima; Taylor, Tim; Boeri, Marco; Zasada, Ingo; Lavalle, Carlo; Vanhout, Roel; Sarretta, Alessandro; Müller, Felix; Rounsevell, Mark; Bell, Simon

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30529-0_4

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“…This is highlighted in Trnava by 25 amendments made to approved urban plan since 2010-partly at the expense of open spaces and urban green areas [84]. Similar problems in planning processes are also encountered in other post-communist countries, where public institutions have weak actual power; planning has lower importance than in many Western European countries and urban development is often driven by developer investment decisions [87].…”

Section: Planning and Management Responsesmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…In the early 1990s, the urban structure of post-socialist cities shows different composition to Western Europe, with the most prominent feature being mass housing estates on a scale unknown in Western European cities [87]. The following factors were significant in shaping socialist cities: (1) poor development of services causing unification of the distribution of inhabitants; (2) collectivisation of land with social, but not economic land value; (3) the morphological structure of new cities and new quarters in old cities; and (4) changes to land-use and organization of the social life of the city inhabitants by large industrial plants [88].…”

Section: Broader Context Of Socio-economic Development Policy and Rementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The ever-increasing pressure on the natural environment leads to various conflicts of interests, and limits the potential for optimal use of natural capital and ecosystem functions and services [46,109]. Thus, the continuous growth in the size of urban areas and increasing demand on resources and energy pose great challenges in ensuring human welfare in cities, while preventing increasing loss of soil, other resources, habitats and biodiversity [59,87,107].…”

Section: Land Use Changes Environmental Consequences and Landscape Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Long-Term Land Use Changes Driven by Urbanisation and Their Environmental Effects (Example of Trnava City, Slovakia)

2017

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Similar to other post-communist countries, Slovakia has undergone significant changes in the last decades-largely through transformation of central planning into a market economy. Unfortunately, this process has been associated with increasing pressure on surrounding ecosystems and their individual components. These changes are subject to various influences, e.g., socio-economic, political and environmental; in addition, urbanisation has also had great influence. This is typified by conversion of productive agricultural land and semi-natural ecosystems into built-up area accompanied by the negative ecological impacts of habitat deterioration and fragmentation. The rapidly changing consumption patterns of luxury living, transportation and leisure have increased the negative consequences on ecosystems and these compound the negative environmental trends. This paper evaluates land use changes in Trnava, which is one of the most rapidly developing cities in Slovakia. Evaluation covers 1838-2015, with explicit emphasis on transformation over the last 25-30 years. We present comparison with developments since 1990 in other cities in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany and then discuss the main processes and environmental problems related to these changes, concentrating on the sustainability of current trends and appropriate planning and management responses.

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Section: Planning and Management Responsesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Broader Context Of Socio-economic Development Policy and Rementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Land Use Changes Environmental Consequences and Landscape Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Long-Term Land Use Changes Driven by Urbanisation and Their Environmental Effects (Example of Trnava City, Slovakia)

2017

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“…On the other hand, as a contrast, we find the remains of old abandoned buildings of former cooperatives, state property, industrial enterprises, but also abandoned residential and farm buildings. There were several landscape ecological issues associated with the development of industrialisation and urbanisation, which were also identified in other countries and were described by several authors [17,18,20,22,24,59,[63][64][65][66][67][68]. The most important environmental problems associated with the transformation process in Slovakia are the following:…”

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The Impacts of Urbanisation on Landscape and Environment: The Case of Slovakia

2021

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The development of urbanisation is linked to qualitative and quantitative changes in the landscape and its components aimed at strengthening economic, administrative and cultural-social functions, which are associated with ever-increasing pressures on ecosystems and their individual components. These pressures are subject to various factors—socio-economic, political, environ-mental, etc. In this paper, we present an evaluation of the environmental impacts of the development of urbanisation in Slovakia. Independent Slovakia belongs to the young European states. The communist period lasted from 1948 to 1989. The character of landscape, the quality of the environment and also the degree of anthropisation of territory were dependent on a centrally managed economy. Urbanisation changes began to manifest themselves rapidly after 2000, when the economy was transformed and Slovakia was preparing to join the European Union (Slovakia joined the European Union in 2004). The transformation from central planning into a market economy was the basis of the changes, which was conditioned following strong pressure of investors on the landscape, the construction of technological parks, shopping and logistics centres and transport infrastructure and the construction of residential complexes. According to the European Environment Agency’s study on urban sprawl between the mid-1950s and the end of the 1990s, industry, commercial and transport services have grown at a significant rate and the residential areas at a moderate rate in Slovakia. On the other hand, Slovakia has areas where urbanisation has the opposite trend. Rural settlements are abandoned as well as large areas of agricultural land. The character of land use has fundamentally changed over the past 20 years. These changes not only have a spatial dimension but are associated with the emergence of various environmental problems. The paper deals with the impacts of anthropisation and industrialisation of Slovakia after 2000. The anthropisation process in Slovakia was determined through data processed in GIS and also through the statistical data representing land use. Based on the ecological significance of land use elements, the degree of anthropisation in Slovakiawas calculated.

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