Assessing the Reliability of Land-Use Data in Slovenia: A Case Study of Terraced Landscapes

World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium - WMCAUS

土木建筑工程

Momirski, Lucija Aman^1

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, Zoisova 12, Ljubljana

1000, Slovenia^1

关键词: Agricultural areas;    European Countries;    High quality;    Human activities;    Natural areas;    Natural features;    Natural vegetation;    Olive grove;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/245/6/062042/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/245/6/062042

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Land use relates to the exploitation of land through human activity in the landscape. Land use is also one of the best indicators of a landscape's structure and processes. Land cover comprises manmade surfaces, agricultural areas, forest and semi-natural areas, wetlands, and bodies of water. In Slovenia more than half of the land (63%) is forested. Manmade surfaces represent less than 5%. A large proportion of relatively inaccessible forest is the main reason why society had a less critical impact on forests in the past in Slovenia in comparison to the majority of central European countries. Regarding the high-quality landscape in the country, Slovenia's natural features are characterized by a mix of forest and farmland. These land categories (i.e., complex cultivation patterns and land principally used for agriculture with significant areas of natural vegetation) cover 23% of Slovenia. Land-use data for farmland are gathered and provided to the relevant institutions by landowners, who are not specialists in land-use data. In addition, land use is only a two-dimensional tool, which does not recognize elevation differences and terraced slopes. Terraced areas are either omitted from the inventory of land-use data because landowners do not report them, or they are included in the inventory because landowners do not realize that their land is not terraced. Consequently, the differences between the official data on vineyards, orchards, and olive groves on terraces and actual terraced slopes with such land use may differ significantly.