Re-Framing the Latent Nexus between Land-Use Change, Urbanization and Demographic Transitions in Advanced Economies

Gianluca Egidi, Luca Salvati, Andrea Falcone, Giovanni Quaranta, Rosanna Salvia, Renata Vcelakova and Antonio Giménez-Morera
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Gianluca Egidi: Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (DAFNE), Tuscia University, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
Luca Salvati: Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata, I-62100 Macerata, Italy
Andrea Falcone: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), I-85050 Tito Scalo, Italy
Giovanni Quaranta: Mathematics, Computer Science and Economics Department, University of Basilicata, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
Rosanna Salvia: Mathematics, Computer Science and Economics Department, University of Basilicata, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
Renata Vcelakova: Global Change Research Institute CAS, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Antonio Giménez-Morera: Departamento de Economia y Ciencias Sociales, Universitat Politècnica de València, ES-46022 València, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-17

Abstract: The linkage between land-use change and demographic transitions in advanced countries has becoming increasingly complex because of the mutual interplay of environmental and socioeconomic spheres influencing the degree of sustainability of both regional and local developmental processes. The relationship between urbanization and economic development has been relatively well investigated by clarifying the consequent impacts on population dynamics. In the early phases of urbanization and economic development, population grew at a particularly high rate, declining (more or less rapidly) in the subsequent time interval. Improving income and education opportunities in urban settings resulted in further urbanization, leading to progressively lower fertility. At the same time, a more general view on the relationship between land-use change and demographic transition focusing on a broader spectrum of landscape processes (including farmland abandonment and forest expansion) at larger spatial scales (from regional to country and continental scale) is increasingly required. The present study provides an integrated view of the relationship between land-use change, urbanization, and demographic transitions with specific focus on Europe. Considering divergent processes of landscape transformations in a unified socioeconomic view may evidence the intimate linkage with recent population trends in both urban and rural areas.

Keywords: social modernization; landscape transformations; population trends; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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