Easy come, easy go: Short-term land-use dynamics vis a` vis regional economic downturns

0574835 - ÚVGZ 2024 RIV GB eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
D'Agata, G. - Alaimo, L. S. - Cudlín, Pavel - Salvati, L.
Easy come, easy go: Short-term land-use dynamics vis a` vis regional economic downturns.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES. Roč. 88, AUG (2023), č. článku 101603. ISSN 0038-0121. E-ISSN 1873-6041
Výzkumná infrastruktura: CzeCOS IV - 90248
Institucionální podpora: RVO:86652079
Klíčová slova: Metropolitan cycle * Sprawl * Indicators * Partial least square regression * Mediterranean Europe
Obor OECD: Business and management
Impakt faktor: 6.1, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038012123001039?via%3Dihub

The present study postulates distinctive land-use dynamics along the economic cycle, and tests against diverging trends over time of urban and non-urban land-uses with characteristic economic potential. Short-term land-use changes over seven time windows encompassing the last three decades (1992-2020) were investigated in metropolitan Athens (Greece), a mono-centric region experiencing complex economic downturns. Based on diachronic land-use maps with homogeneous spatial resolution and nomenclature derived from ESA Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI), a change detection analysis was run considering mean patch size, distance from downtown, and specific entropy-based metrics of landscape diversification (Shannon-Wiener H' diversity index and Pielou J evenness index). Results of a canonical correlation analysis document differential intensity and spatial direction of change during expansions and recessions associated with distinctive socio-demographic profiles. Metropolitan growth followed a radio-centric (land-saving) model during economic expansions with intense urbanization of fringe land. A more dispersed settlement model reflecting urban sprawl was associated with economic stagnations, involving land at progressively distant locations from downtown. Landscape diversification was higher under stagnations and lower during expansions.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0344766