Decaying villages in the centre of Europe with no population decline: Long-term analysis using historical aerial images and remote sensing data

《Decaying villages in the centre of Europe with no population decline: Long-term analysis using historical aerial images and remote sensing data》

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作者: Jaroslaw Janus;Piotr Bożek;Jaroslaw Taszakowski;Arkadiusz Doroż

来源: HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.121,P.102520

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Department of Agricultural Land Surveying, Cadastre and Photogrammetry, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland;Department of Agricultural Land Surveying, Cadastre and Photogrammetry, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland;Dr Daniel Ibrahim Dabara School of the Built Environment, Real Estate Programme, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom;Department of Estate Management, Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State, Nigeria;Department of Geography, Environment and Geo-Information, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom;MNR Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Great Bay Area & Guangdong Key Laboratory of Urban Informatics & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China;School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China;Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 611756, China;Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, 999077, Hong Kong, China;College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China;College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China;School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China;School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, G128QQ, United Kingdom;Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China;School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China;Institute of Geography, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China;School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China;School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China;Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB, Utrecht, the Netherlands;Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China

摘要: Agricultural land abandonment and depopulation of rural areas are a problem observed in numerous regions of the world, especially in Europe. Effectively counteracting this phenomenon requires the development of tools adapted to its nature in a given area as well as the origin and dynamics of observed changes. The article presents a study on the dynamics of land abandonment in central Poland, which has resulted in the complete abandonment of land cultivation of an area of hundreds of square kilometres. Historical stereometric aerial photographs from 1973 and the results of ALS measurements taken in 2012 were used in the study. The historical data was used to generate point data clouds representing the three-dimensional, historical structure of vegetation height in a specific year, with an accuracy similar to that of contemporary ALS measurements. The results obtained were quite surprising because, unlike many other studies of this issue, no intensive depopulation was found, and the change in the age structure, although noticeable, does not differ significantly from the changes observed in the entire population of Poland during the period in question. This approach allows for a very accurate assessment of changes in land use, in particular the process of the abandonment of land use, combined with secondary forest succession and self-reforestation processes. Such an analysis may cover a period of several decades and its results allow a precise diagnosis of the duration and dynamics of abandonment.