Land Use Changes in Turkish Territories: Patterns, Directions and Socio-Economic Impacts on Territorial Management
| Autor: | Arian Behradfar, Dervis Kirikkaleli, Sema Yilmaz Genç, Rui Alexandre Castanho, Luís Loures, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Current World Environment. 16:105-122 |
| ISSN: | 2320-8031 0973-4929 |
| DOI: | 10.12944/cwe.16.1.11 |
| Popis: | Human activities have been changing the Earth's cover at an unparalleled scale. In this regard, and cover mapping is a decisive advantage for several kinds of research. Also, the outcomes from these investigations could be applied to plan a sustainable regional governance policy. This article studied land-use changes in the Turkish Territories in 1990, 2000, 2012, and 2018 using the Coordination of Information on the Environment (CORINE) data. The results showed a significant and gradual land-use change from agricultural to mostly artificial surfaces. The majority of land-use changes are related to industrial and commercial units and construction sites. The most degraded agricultural land uses are non-irrigated arable land and pastures, while there is an increasing trend in permanently irrigated land. This study's outcome can be considered a surveying baseline for the comparative analysis of similar works for different land-use change trends in Europe or worldwide. Landuse change studies are reliable tools to evaluate the human activities and footprint of proposed strategies and policies in a territory. This article also enables us to understand that Turkey's decisive actors should design development policies to encourage industrial investments and agricultural ventures in Turkey and adapt the land-use/land cover strategies to mitigate agricultural land fragmentation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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