Toward a Dualistic Growth? Population Increase and Land-Use Change in Rome, Italy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F21%3A00544764" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/21:00544764 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/7/749" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/7/749</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10070749" target="_blank" >10.3390/land10070749</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Toward a Dualistic Growth? Population Increase and Land-Use Change in Rome, Italy
Original language description
The spatial mismatch between population growth and settlement expansion is at the base of current models of urban growth. Empirical evidence is increasingly required to inform planning measures promoting urban containment in the context of a stable (or declining) population. In these regards, per-capita indicators of land-use change can be adopted with the aim at evaluating long-term sustainability of urbanization processes. The present study assesses spatial variations in per-capita indicators of land-use change in Rome, Central Italy, at five years (1949, 1974, 1999, 2008, and 2016) with the final objective of quantifying the mismatch between urban expansion and population growth. Originally specialized in agricultural productions, Rome's metropolitan area is a paradigmatic example of dispersed urban expansion in the Mediterranean basin. By considering multiple land-use dynamics, per-capita indicators of landscape change delineated three distinctive waves of growth corresponding with urbanization, suburbanization, and a more mixed stage with counter-urbanization and re-urbanization impulses. By reflecting different socioeconomic contexts on a local scale, urban fabric and forests were identified as the 'winner' classes, expanding homogeneously over time at the expense of cropland. Agricultural landscapes experienced a more heterogeneous trend with arable land and pastures declining systematically and more fragmented land classes (e.g., vineyards and olive groves) displaying stable (or slightly increasing) trends. The continuous reduction of per-capita surface area of cropland that's supports a reduced production base, which is now insufficient to satisfy the rising demand for fresh food at the metropolitan scale, indicates the unsustainability of the current development in Rome and more generally in the whole Mediterranean basin, a region specialized traditionally in (proximity) agricultural productions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Land
ISSN
2073-445X
e-ISSN
2073-445X
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
749
UT code for WoS article
000676772600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85111358272