Variation in brownfield reuse of derelict agricultural premises in diverse rural spaces

0549601 - ÚGN 2022 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Navrátil, Josef - Krejčí, Tomáš - Martinát, Stanislav - Frazier, R. J. - Klusáček, Petr - Pícha, Kamil - Škrabal, Jaroslav - Osman, Robert
Variation in brownfield reuse of derelict agricultural premises in diverse rural spaces.
Journal of Rural Studies. Roč. 87, October 2021 (2021), s. 124-136. ISSN 0743-0167. E-ISSN 1873-1392
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-23870S
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : brownfield regeneration * derelict land * utilization * abandonment * Central Europe * agricultural reclamation
OECD category: Physical geography
Impact factor: 5.157, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016721002680

Urban brownfield remediation and reclamation have attracted much attention, but rural spaces do not receive the same focus and suffer from the effects these sites have on society, the economy, and land. The objective of this study is to evaluate how social, economic, and environmental features affect agricultural brownfield regeneration between 2004 and 2018 through two case study regions in the southern Czech Republic. In 1221 muncipalties where a communist agricultural cooperative or a state farm operated in 1989, agricultural brownfields existed in 832 of the municipalities in 2004. A multinomial non-parametric regression method and CCA ordination revealed ties between agricultural brownfield reclamation and the characteristics of those municipalities. This shows a deep and before unknown consequence of agricultural brownfield regeneration. There was not a relationship between the size of an agricultural premise and its probability of being an agricultural brownfield. Larger agricultural brownfields are more likely to be (at least partially) regenerated. Lower agrcultural land costs drove the higher probability that a brownfield was reused between 2004 and 2018. Housing reuses more frequently occur in areas with low agricultural land costs. Similarly, agricultural reuses of those derelict premises is more likely in areas with a low price of agricultural land. However, larger municipalities did not experience a reclamation of their agricultural brownfields, and long-term brownfields may occur alongside any other type of reclaimed land.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0325572