DOES DEPOPULATION DETERMINE LAND – USE CHANGES? CASE STUDY: THE WESTERN DEVELOPMENT REGION OF ROMANIA

IOANA ALEXANDRA COSTEA, ALMA LIOARA NICOLIN

Abstract


The changes in the landscape functionality and structure due to the demographic decline in the Western Development Region are pointed out through the land-use analysis based on two important elements: agricultural areas – human involvement present – and natural areas represented mostly by forests. The land cover transformations between 2000 and 2012 were related to a 24 years period of time (1992-2016) for the demographic analysis to point out the significance of human interaction with the environment and the lack thereof. For this analysis, GIS applications have been used for identifying communities with less than 100 people and also changes in different land cover categories. Results are being presented in correlation to the demographic decline that is observed for the territorial administrative units that contain those communities with a population with less than 100 people and where changes appear in the spatial reference of land cover categories such as agricultural surfaces and forests.

Keywords


land use analysis; landscape changes; depopulation; agricultural spaces; natural areas

Full Text:

PDF

References


COPERNICUS LAND MONITORING SERVICE, 2017 - retrieved october 30, 2017 from land.copernicus.eu

ESRI ROMANIA, 2017 - retrieved october 30, 2017 from www.esri.ro

GAFTA D. & MOUNTFORD O. (coord.), ALEXIU V., ANASTASIU P., BĂRBOS M., BURESCU P., COLDEA G., DRĂGULESCU C., FĂGĂRAȘ M., GOIA I., GROZA G., MICU D., MIHĂILESCU S., MOLDOVAN O., NICOLIN L. ALMA, NICULESCU M., OPREA A., OROIAN S., PAUCĂ COMĂNESCU M., SÂRBU I., ȘUTEU A., 2008. Manual de interpretare a habitatelor Natura 2000 din România, ed. Risoprint, Cluj-Napoca.

HANSEN A.J., RASKER R., MAXWELL B., ROTELLA J.J., JOHNSON J.D., PARMENTER A.W., LANGNER U., COHEN W.B., LAWRENCE R.L., KRASKA P.V., 2002. Ecological causes and consequences of Demographic Change in the New West: As natural amenities attract people and commerce to the rural west, the resulting land-use changes threaten biodiversity, even in protected areas, and challenge efforts to sustain local communities and ecosystems, BioScience 52 (2): 151-162.

KROLL F., HAASE D., 2010. Does demographic change affect land use patterns?: A case study from Germany, Land use policy 27 (3): 726-737.

MAPCRUZIN, 2017 - retrieved october 30, 2017 from www.mapcruzin.com.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STATISTICS (Institutul Național de Statistică), 2017, Romania - retrieved october 30, 2017 from: statistici.insse.ro/shop.

SOCIETY OF ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION, 2011. Agricultural co-existence with ecological restoration, Ecological Restoration, retrieved october 30, 2017 from http://www.ser2011.org/agricultural-co-existence-with-ecological-restoration.html.

VESTERBY, M., HEIMLICH, R. E., 1991. Land-use and demographic change: Result from Fast – Growth Counties, Land Economics, 67 (3): 279-291.

WESTERN DEVELOPMENT REGION AGENCY (Agenția de dezvoltare regională Vest, ADR Vest), 2017, Romania - retrieved october 30, 2017 from adrvest.ro.

ZOMENI M., TZANOPOULOS J., PANTIS J.D. 2008. Historical analysis of landscape change using remote sensing techniques: An explanatory tool for agricultural transformation in Greek rural areas. Lanscape and Urban Planing. 86(1): 38-46.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2018 Ioana Alexa Costea, Alma Lioara Nicolin

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

LUCRĂRI ȘTIINȚIFICE MANAGEMENT AGRICOL

ISSN print 1453-1410
ISSN online 2069-2307
(former ISSN 1453-1410, E-ISSN 2069-2307)

PUBLISHER: AGROPRINT Timisoara, Romania
PAPER ACCESS: Full text articles available for free
FREQUENCY: Annual
PUBLICATION LANGUAGE: English

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Banat`s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania” from Timisoara
Faculty of Management and Rural Tourism
300645, Timisoara, Calea Aradului 119, Romania

E-mail: tabitaadamov2003 [at] yahoo.com
Phone: +40-256-277439, Fax.: +40-256-277031