How Socio-Economic Drivers Explain Landscape Soil Erosion Regulation Services in Polish Catchments

Mustafa Nur Istanbuly, Josef Krása and Bahman Jabbarian Amiri
Additional contact information
Mustafa Nur Istanbuly: Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Chamran Blvd., Karaj 3158777878, Iran
Josef Krása: Department of Landscape Water Conservation, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Thakurova 7, 16629 Prague, Czech Republic
Bahman Jabbarian Amiri: Department of Regional Economics and the Environment, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź, 90-255 Lodz, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Most studies that address the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and soil erosion focus on the effects of soil erosion on socio-economic conditions at different levels, from global to smallholder. Few, if any, efforts are made to address the influence of socio-economic variables on the soil erosion rate as an indicator of landscape degradation. The present study was carried out using spatial data from 402 catchments that cover Poland, to find out how socio-economic variables, which include area-weighted average income per capita (PLN km −2 ), area-weighted average gross domestic product (PLN km −2 ), population density (person km −2 ), and human development index can drive the soil erosion rate (kg ha −1 yr −1 ), along with annual precipitation, soil and geomorphological variables that include soil organic carbon content, soil water content, clay ratio, stream gradient, and terrain slope. The results showed that the soil erosion rate is indirectly driven by the socio-economic variables in the study catchments, as it is alleviated by increasing population density, the area-weighted average gross domestic product, and the human development index. Furthermore, analyzing the incremental relationship between soil erosion rate and the area-weighted average of socio-economic variables revealed that no uniform change can be observed in the relationship between the area-weighted average socio-economic variables and soil erosion in the study catchments.

Keywords: landscape; ecosystem services; soil erosion regulation; area-weighted average income per capita; area-weighted average GDP; HDI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/4/2372/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/4/2372/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:4:p:2372-:d:752757

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().