Assessing Land Use Changes in Polish Territories: Patterns, Directions and Socioeconomic Impacts on Territorial Management

Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez and Joanna Kurowska-Pysz
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Rui Alexandre Castanho: Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
José Manuel Naranjo Gómez: Polytechnic School, University of Extremadura, 10003 Caceres, Spain
Joanna Kurowska-Pysz: Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-19

Abstract: Bearing in mind the relationships between the territorial management and the achievement of sustainable development, studies regarding the land use changes are seen as pivotal. What is more, they can also enable us to understand the dynamics and variables for proper territorial management. Therefore, a retrospective study has been carried out regarding the land use changes in the Polish territory in the years: 1990, 2000, and 2012, by means of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) tools such as the CLC (Corine Land Cover). Moreover, and considering the complex dynamics, patterns, and particularities that territories presents, a deep analysis of those land uses is critical for the identification of barriers and opportunities for long-term sustained development. The study enabled us to identify the land use changes in the last decades in the Polish territory—allowing us to establish a relationship and identification of the associated barriers and opportunities within the socioeconomic sphere.

Keywords: GIS tools; territory of Poland; land use changes; socio-economy; territorial governance and management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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