A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain
| Autor: | Vasco Barbosa, Inés Santé-Riveira, Rafael Crecente-Maseda, Carlos Díaz Redondo, Juan Porta Trinidad, Jorge Parapar López, Ramón Doallo Biempica, José Ambrósio Ferreira Neto |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Land; Volume 11; Issue 6; Pages: 800 RUC. Repositorio da Universidade da Coruña instname |
| Popis: | [Abstract] Rural settlements (RS) are a reality of rural areas. They consist of cluster of buildings and ways of life mainly associated with activities related to agriculture. As economic policies applied in rural development have evolved, the physical delimitation of rural areas has become more important because such areas are recipients of financial support, which depends on an area’s characteristics. Thus, it is necessary to formulate a new spatial approach for RS delimitation. The objective of this study is to define spatial criteria for identification and delimitation of the RS to recognize the morphological context of each RS. With respect to methodology, RS in the community of Galicia, Northwestern Spain were studied, and factors for spatial characterization were defined according to experts’ evaluations. Subsequently, spatial restrictions and conditions were identified for the delimitation of boundaries. The criteria that this research proposes reveal numerically adjustable factors that can recognize and interpret the morphological characteristics of each RS, which is also evidenced by the results of RS delimitations. It can be concluded that the numerically defined criteria associated with a spatial operation allow the adaptation to the morphological characteristics of any RS, as well as spatial equity by recognizing the differentiation of building structures and land uses of each RS, rather unlike the criteria defined by the law. This study was funded by the research project “Geographic information systems for urban planning and planning by optimisation techniques on multicore processors” by Xunta de Galicia and FEDER funds of the European Union (Centro de Investigación de Galicia accreditation 2019–2022, ref. ED431G 2019/01; Consolidation Program of Competitive Reference Groups, ref. ED431C 2021/30) Xunta de Galicia; ED431G 2019/01 Xunta de Galicia; ED431C 2021/30 |
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