Driving Forces in Archetypical Land-Use Changes in a Mountainous Watershed in East Asia
Ilkwon Kim,
Quang Bao Le,
Soo Jin Park,
John Tenhunen and
Thomas Koellner
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Ilkwon Kim: Professorship of Ecological Services (PES), Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences, BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth 95440, Germany
Quang Bao Le: Natural and Social Science Interface (NSSI), Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Soo Jin Park: Department of Geography, Seoul National University, Shilim-Dong, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea
John Tenhunen: Department of Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth 95440, Germany
Thomas Koellner: Professorship of Ecological Services (PES), Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geosciences, BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth 95440, Germany
Land, 2014, vol. 3, issue 3, 1-24
Abstract:
Identifying patterns and drivers of regional land use changes is crucial for supporting land management and planning. Doing so for mountain ecosystems in East Asia, such as the So-yang River Basin in South Korea, has until now been a challenge because of extreme social and ecological complexities. Applying the techniques of geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical modeling via multinomial logistic regression (MNL), we attempted to examine various hypothesized drivers of land use changes, over the period 1980 to 2000. The hypothesized drivers included variables of topography, accessibility, spatial zoning policies and neighboring land use. Before the inferential statistic analyses, we identified the optimal neighborhood extents for each land use type. The two archetypical sub-periods, i.e. , 1980–1990 with agricultural expansions and 1990–2000 with reforestation, have similar causal drivers, such as topographic factors, which are related to characteristics of mountainous areas, neighborhood land use, and spatial zoning policies, of land use changes. Since the statistical models robustly capture the mutual effects of biophysical heterogeneity, neighborhood characteristics and spatial zoning regulation on long-term land use changes, they are valuable for developing coupled models of social-ecological systems to simulate land use and dependent ecosystem services, and to support sustainable land management.
Keywords: land-use change; driving factors; So-yang River Basin; multinomial logistic regression; heterogeneity; neighborhood effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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