Land use change and the multifunctional role of agriculture: a spatial prediction model in an Italian rural area

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iacopo Bernetti ◽  
Chiara Franciosi ◽  
Ginevra Virginia Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Prediction Model ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Spatial Prediction

The role of bacterial communities in shaping Cd-induced hormesis in ‘living’ soil as a function of land-use change

2020 ◽  
pp. 124996
Author(s):  
Diwu Fan ◽  
Shengyan Wang ◽  
Yanhui Guo ◽  
Jian Liu ◽  
Evgenios Agathokleous ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Bacterial Communities

Exploring the role of land degradation on agricultural land use change dynamics

2018 ◽  
Vol 636 ◽  
pp. 1373-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bajocco ◽  
D. Smiraglia ◽  
M. Scaglione ◽  
E. Raparelli ◽  
L. Salvati
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Change Dynamics

scholarly journals Industrial Sprawl and Residential Housing: Exploring the Interplay between Local Development and Land-Use Change in the Valencian Community, Spain

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zambon ◽  
Cerdà ◽  
Gambella ◽  
Egidi ◽  
Salvati
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
Industrial Expansion

Urbanization in Mediterranean Europe has occurred in recent decades with expansion of residential, commercial and industrial settlements into rural landscapes outside the traditional metropolitan boundaries. Industrial expansion in peri-urban contexts was particularly intense in Southern Europe. Based on these premises, this work investigates residential and industrial settlement dynamics in the Valencian Community, Spain, between 2005 and 2015, with the aim to clarify the role of industrial expansion in total urban growth in a paradigmatic Mediterranean region. Since the early 1990s, the Valencian industrial sector developed in correspondence with already established industrial nodes, altering the surrounding rural landscape. Six variables (urban hierarchy, discontinuous settlements, pristine land under urban expansion, isolated industrial settlements, within- and out-of-plan industrial areas) were considered with the aim at exploring land-use change. Empirical results indicate a role of industrial development in pushing urban sprawl in coastal Valencia. A reflection on the distinctive evolution of residential and industrial settlements is essential for designing new planning measures for sustainable land management and containment of urban sprawl in Southern Europe. A comparative analysis of different alternatives of urban development based on quantitative assessment of land-use change provides guidelines for local development and ecological sustainability.

scholarly journals Land-use change and livelihoods of non-farm households: The role of income from employment in oil palm and rubber in rural Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 828-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonida Bou Dib ◽  
Vijesh V. Krishna ◽  
Zulkifli Alamsyah ◽  
Matin Qaim
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Farm Households

scholarly journals Flooding and Land Use Change in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Kelley ◽  
Agung Prabowo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Flood Events ◽  
Daily Production ◽  
Extreme Flood ◽  
Agrarian Societies

Flooding is a routine occurrence throughout much of the monsoonal tropics. Despite well-developed repertoires of response, agrarian societies have been ‘double exposed’ to intensifying climate change and agro-industrialization over the past several decades, often in ways that alter both the regularity of flood events and individual and community capacity for response. This paper engages these tensions by exploring everyday experiences of and responses to extreme flood events in a case study village in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, which has also been the site of corporate oil palm development since 2010. We first reconstruct histories of extreme flood events along the Konawe’eha River using oral histories and satellite imagery, describing the role of these events in straining the terms of daily production and reproduction. We then outline the ways smallholder agriculturalists are responding to flood events through alterations in their land use strategies, including through the sale or leasing of flood-prone lands, the relocation of riverine vegetable production to hillside locations, and adoption of new cropping choices and management practices. We highlight the role of such responses as a driver of ongoing land use change, potentially in ways that increase systemic vulnerability to floods moving forward.

scholarly journals Market-Farm Linkages and Land Use Change : A Quebec Case Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (44) ◽  
pp. 297-315
Author(s):  
William Smith
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Farm Market

The paper presents the results of research into the function of farm-market linkages in the evolution of hybrid grain-corn production in Southern Québec. The evolution of the physical structure of the market, the nature of market demand, and the farmers' perception of the market, are all identified as significant variables in the location pattern of grain-corn production. The direct role of the market as an information source is examined and found to influence positively both the rate and direction of change. The use of free seed samples and the establishment of contract marketing further confirm these findings.

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