Nodes of a peri-urban agricultural landscape at local level: an interpretation of their contribution to the eco-structure

Rocío Pérez-Campaña and Luis Miguel Valenzuela-Montes

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2018, vol. 61, issue 3, 406-429

Abstract: The ecological value of some fine-scale landscape elements tends to be overlooked when they are found in highly human-influenced landscapes, such as peri-urban agricultural ones. These landscapes usually fall beyond the scope of the defined categories of landscape protection, and are thus mapped as areas of little or no ecological interest in the context of extensive analysis. In this paper, we present a method for assessing and visualizing the existing nodes in the field pattern of a peri-urban agricultural landscape. Nodes are identified from the field pattern and characterized according to the presence of relevant features and land uses from the viewpoint of their ecological functions. The method is applied in the Vega del Guadalfeo (south of Spain). Our results show an innovative map of the Vega which may be interpreted as its eco-structure; a model based on nodes to represent the ecological value of the peri-urban agricultural landscape.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2017.1314252

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