Environmental, demographic and policy drivers of change in mediterranean hedgerow landscape (Central Spain)

Fernando Allende Álvarez, Gillian Gómez Mediavilla and Nieves López Estébanez

Land Use Policy, 2021, vol. 103, issue C

Abstract: The present paper combines the classification of hedgerows in relation to surface soil moisture with the consideration of drivers of change (environmental, demographic, and policy) affecting the areal extent of hedgerow land cover in central Spain. These landscapes have a high cultural significance and functionality that needs to be preserved and improved. The hedgerow network of a continental Mediterranean mountain was mapped and different levels of surface soil moisture were estimated utilising images of the satellite Sentinel-2. In addition, we analysed the areal extent of hedgerows from 1956 to the present in relation to slope, surface soil moisture and distance from the metropolitan area.

Keywords: Policies; Rural development; Mediterranean hedgerows; Drivers of change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105342

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