Hedgerows and Enclosures in Rural Areas: Traditional vs. Modern Land Use in Mediterranean Mountains

Land

Pedro Molina Holgado¹  Gillian Gómez-Mediavilla¹  Fernando Allende Álvarez¹  Nieves López-Estébanez¹  Judith Ares Barajas¹ 

[1] Department of Geography, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain;

关键词: hedgerows;    Mediterranean mountains;    land use changes;    rural development;    cultural landscape;   

DOI  :  10.3390/land10010057

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The present paper highlights the importance of hedgerows and enclosures in the mountains of Central Spain. Now, these landscapes have suffered profound variations in terms of agroforestry practices, especially in the Mediterranean mountains where the characteristic multifunctional has largely been lost. The article analyzes land uses changes, dynamics, and their morphological features between the first half of the 20th Century (1956) and the second decade of the present time (2019). The paper was divided into three sections. First, the identification of land uses using orthophotograph and aerial photograph; after that the info was checked with fieldwork. Eleven categories were identified according to the dominant use and land use changes and size of land parcels were taken into consideration. Second, the configuration and the information collected through the type and intensity of change in land uses made it possible to recognise and quantify their distribution and trend between these two dates. Also, the kernel density algorithm available in the Arcgis 10.5 software was used to obtain density and changes in land parcels. Finally, an overview is given of the main role that this agroforestry plays due to the social, ecological, and economic benefits that they provide for allowing sustainable development.

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