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Journal articles on the topic "Land settlement Agricultural geography"
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Haruna, M., M. K. Ibrahim, and U. M. Shaibu. "Assessment of Land Use and Vegetative Cover in Kano Metropolis (from 1975-2015) Employing GIS and Remote Sensing Technology." Nigerian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 27, no. 2 (2020): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njbas.v27i2.1.
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This study applied GIS and remote sensing technology to assess agricultural land use and vegetative cover in Kano Metropolis. It specifically examined the intensity of land use for agricultural and non agricultural purpose from 1975 – 2015. Images (1975, 1995 and 2015), landsat MSS/TM, landsat 8, scene of path 188 and 052 were downloaded for the study. Bonds for these imported scenes were processed using ENVI 5.0 version. The result indicated five classified features-settlement, farmland, water body, vegetation and bare land. The finding revealed an increase in settlement, vegetation and bare land between 1995 and 2015, however, farmland decreased in 2015. Indicatively, higher percentage of land use for non agricultural purposes was observed in recent time. Conclusively, there is need to accord surveying the rightful place and priority in agricultural planning and development if Nigeria is to be self food sufficient.
 Keywords: Geographic Information System, Agriculture, Remote sensing, Land use, Land cover
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Yang, Yuanyuan, and Shuwen Zhang. "Historical Arable Land Change in an Eco-Fragile Area: A Case Study in Zhenlai County, Northeastern China." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (2018): 3940. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10113940.
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Long-term land changes are cumulatively a major driver of global environmental change. Historical land-cover/use change is important for assessing present landscape conditions and researching ecological environment issues, especially in eco-fragile areas. Arable land is one of the land types influenced by human agricultural activity, reflecting human effects on land-use and land-cover change. This paper selected Zhenlai County, which is part of the farming–pastoral zone of northern China, as the research region. As agricultural land transformation goes with the establishment of settlements, in this research, the historical progress of land transformation in agricultural areas was analyzed from the perspective of settlement evolution, and the historical reconstruction of arable land was established using settlement as the proxy between their inner relationships, which could be reflected by the farming radius. The results show the following. (1) There was little land transformation from nonagricultural areas into agricultural areas until the Qing government lifted the ban on cultivation and mass migration accelerated the process, which was most significant during 1907–1912; (2) The overall trend of land transformation in this region is from northeast to southwest; (3) Taking the topographic maps as references, the spatial distribution of the reconstructed arable land accounts for 47.79% of the maps. When this proxy-based reconstruction method is applied to other regions, its limitations should be noticed. It is important to explore the research of farming radius calculations based on regional characteristics. To achieve land-system sustainability, long-term historical land change trajectories and characteristics should be applied to future policy making.
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Amado, Miguel, Francesca Poggi, Adriana Martins, Nuno Vieira, and Antonio Amado. "Transforming Cape Vert Informal Settlements." Sustainability 10, no. 7 (2018): 2571. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10072571.
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The lack of land ownership databases in developing countries has influenced inhabitants of these countries to occupy public lands. This situation has resulted in areas of informal housing, commerce, and agriculture, ultimately creating new informal settlements, which are becoming a serious problem in developing countries. These informal settlements contain inhabitants settled on public land without any infrastructure and against the landowner’s wishes. This process results in uncontrolled land occupation that promotes new informal areas without any proper urban utilities, positioned in risky areas, where the minimum requirements for healthy living are not being met. In some cases, this incentivizes an informal economy. Building a cadastral map in informal settlement areas is fundamental to supporting the future transformation of illegal areas, and in regulating the occupation of new subdivisions and new expansion areas. In this paper, we present a methodology developed to support the management of informal settlement areas. The method we used has the potential for replication so that it can be adapted to multiple types of informal settlements, as can the model used to register the land tenure. The model was developed using a series of qualitative and quantitative data that determine the identification and classification of buildings, along with a physical and functional description. A Geographic Information System, an initial survey of existing land titles of possession, and public proposals to develop new expansion areas were used to develop the model. A case study is presented where the land management model was implemented in Chã da Caldeiras in Ilha do Fogo, which is an informal settlement in Cape Verde. The proposal created using the results was accepted by the population and local authorities.
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Tunc, Erdihan, Awet Tekeste Tsegai, and Sevil Çelik. "Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Changes of Agricultural Land Use During the Last Three Decades in the Araban District of Turkey Using Remote Sensing." Geomatics and Environmental Engineering 15, no. 1 (2021): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/geom.2021.15.1.111.
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Agricultural land use and land cover dynamics were investigated in the Araban district of Turkey during the periods 1984–2019 by the use of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Landsat‑TM and Landsat‑TIRS / OLI satellite imageries were used to determine land use and land cover changes. Using unsupervised classification method of ERDAS 8.3 software, three main agricultural activities were identified namely irrigated farming, dry farming, and horticultural / garden farming. The analysis has revealed that during the last three decades dry farming has decreased significantly by 14.69% (3802.14 ha) whereas horticultural/garden crops and irrigated farming lands have increased by 11.32% (667.19 ha) and 2.51% (2929.41 ha) respectively. Araban has been under intensive agricultural use due to its fertile soil and preference for horticultural crops such as pistachio, grapes and olives that provide more profit over dry farming crops such as wheat and barley has changed land use. Decrease in dry farming in a semi‑arid climate where Araban is located, has a potential ecological consequence, including a rapid drop of groundwater level, drying of wetlands and the disappearance of the biodiversity, thus, a necessary measures should be taken to implement an environmentally friendly, sustainable agriculture and settlement plan.
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Chen, Dechao, Acef Elhadj, Hualian Xu, Xinliang Xu, and Zhi Qiao. "A Study on the Relationship between Land Use Change and Water Quality of the Mitidja Watershed in Algeria Based on GIS and RS." Sustainability 12, no. 9 (2020): 3510. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12093510.
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Many catchments in northern Algeria, including the coastal Mitidja Basin in the north central part of the country have been negatively affected by the deterioration of water quality in recent years. This study aims to discover the relationship between land use change and its impact on water quality in the coastal Mitidja river basin. Based on the data of land use and water quality in 2000, 2010 and 2017, the relationship between land use change and surface water quality index in the Mitidja Watershed was discussed through GIS and statistical analysis. The results show that the physical and chemical properties of the Mitidja river basin have obvious spatial heterogeneity. The water quality of upstream was better than that of downstream. There was a significant spatial relationship between the eight water quality indicators and three land use types, including urban residential land, agricultural land and vegetation. In most cases, settlements and agricultural land are the dominant factors leading to river pollution, and higher vegetation coverage helps to improve water quality. The regression model revealed that percentage of urban settlement area was a predictor for NH4-N, BOD5, COD, SS, PO4-P, DO and pH, while vegetation was a predictor for NO3-N. The analysis also showed that during this period, urban settlement areas increased sharply, which has a significant impact on water quality variables. Agricultural land only had a significant positive correlation with PO4-P. The results provide an effective way to evaluate river water quality, control water pollution and land use management by landscape pattern.
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Fedick, Scott L. "Ancient Maya Agricultural Terracing in the Upper Belize River Area." Ancient Mesoamerica 5, no. 1 (1994): 107–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100001073.
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AbstractRecent archaeological surveys in the upper Belize River area have documented high overall settlement densities, albeit with an uneven distribution. Analyses have defined clear relationships between the distribution of land resources of varying agricultural capability and the density of ancient residential sites. However, these investigations did not provide direct physical evidence for cultivation techniques, particularly for the intensive methods that were probably employed in areas of prime land resources and high settlement density. The discovery in 1991 of terracing in direct association with a residential site prompted further investigations into the distribution of terrace systems throughout the area. The development of a computerized Geographic Information System (GIS) facilitated the prediction of terrace distributions on the basis of slope, soil type, and the parent material from which soils form. Initial field testing of the terrace-distribution model in 1992 resulted in the identification of 13 terrace systems, all situated on low slopes in soils developed on consolidated limestone. A variety of terrace systems were identified, including small, intricate patterns of “box terraces,” contour terraces, and cross-channel terraces. Locational data on these systems were used to modify the terrace-distribution model in anticipation of further field investigations. The results allow new insights into the structure of ancient Maya land use and settlement in the area, while illustrating a method that can be used to quantify landscape characteristics, thereby facilitating comparisons between local areas within a regional context.
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Fedick, Scott L. "Land Evaluation and Ancient Maya Land Use in the Upper Belize River Area, Belize, Central America." Latin American Antiquity 6, no. 1 (1995): 16–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/971598.
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In this study I examine local-scale associations between land resources and the density distribution of Maya residential sites for the prehistoric population maxima of the Late Classic period (ca. A. D. 600-900). Methods involve agricultural land evaluation following USDA guidelines, under assumptions of hand-cultivation technology. I give specific attention to the issue of concordance between the geographic scale of household agricultural production and the scale at which agricultural land evaluation is conducted. The focus is the upper Belize River area of Belize, Central America, where intensive archaeological survey and local-scale land-resource mapping provide the data necessary for a detailed analysis of ancient land-use patterns. The analysis reveals a strong and consistent relationship between prehistoric Maya settlement density and the agricultural productive capability of local soil types. For each land type, I discuss the amount of land available for each residential locus and probable cultivation methods used. I argue that the ability to identify clearly and quantitatively the association (or lack of association) between household settlement pattern and agricultural land capability is a necessary component of regional studies that seek to test models of Maya political economy and social change.
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LAWSON, JOSEPH. "Unsettled Lands: Labour and land cultivation in western China during the War of Resistance (1937–1945)." Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 5 (2015): 1442–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x14000274.
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AbstractBefore the 1937 Japanese invasion of China, almost all Chinese leaders and intellectuals believed that the large-scale agricultural settlement of China's western peripheries would rapidly deliver extensive economic and social benefits. At the onset of the war, many officials from the western provinces pressed the central government to fund programmes to allow millions of refugees from Japanese-occupied territory to settle on and cultivate ‘wasteland’ (huang) on the peripheries of their jurisdictions. Influenced more by pre-War ideology than the demands of the War, central and provincial governments established ‘land settlement and cultivation zones’ (kenzhiqu) in these provinces. However, these ventures were much less well supported than their proponents had hoped. This was not only because the War strained government finances—funding forkenzhiquwas always limited relative to support for agricultural cooperatives—but also partly becausekenzhiquattempts to recruit settlers clashed with the acute labour shortage in core zones of unoccupied China, which led to the abandonment of already cultivated land there, and partly because of the mistrust between central and regional governments. Nonetheless, wartime advocacy for more land cultivation in the Northwest did have important repercussions, leading to a renewed interest in penal colonies.
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Hanušin, Ján. "Impact of dispersed settlement on the structure and diversity of rural landscape (Case study of village Hrušov, Slovak Republic)." Geographia Polonica 94, no. 1 (2021): 29–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.7163/gpol.0192.
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The impact of a dispersed settlement on the changes of the land cover (LC) and landscape diversity (LDI) in the years 1950, 1986 and 2016 was analyzed on four spatially different levels: on the level of the whole cadastral area, 60 circular areas – hinterlands of hamlets, 15 circular areas in agricultural land outside hamlets and areas outside circular areas. The primary hypothesis that the landscape with a dispersed settlement is internally differentiated in terms of LC and LDI changes and that a dispersed settlement itself is an important driving force of these changes has been confirmed.
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Khavanskaya, Natalya, Vladimir Alyaev, and Diana Semenova. "Cartographic Methods of the Research of the Rural Settlement System in Volgograd Region." Natural Systems and Resources, no. 4 (May 2020): 64–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/nsr.jvolsu.2019.4.7.
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The article presents the methodology of cartographic support of economic and geographical research of rural territories in Volgograd region. The methodological basis of the article is the theoretical foundations of classical economic geography and applied directions of geoinformation mapping. The authors consider the stages of the study, including: identification of mapped indicators; formation of an information base; compilation of thematic maps for each indicator; compilation of an integrated assessment card for a set of indicators. The following are proposed as the main mapped indicators: the number of rural population in 2010, % by 1969; density of the rural population in 2010, people / km2; grouping of rural settlements by population, people; grouping of rural settlements by extrapolation tendency; conditions of the temporary transport accessibility of Volgograd; conditions of the temporary transport accessibility of the district center; natural fertility of agricultural lands in bonitet points. When constructing thematic maps, methods for classifying numerical fields are used, based on the calculation of the standard deviation: for maps of population dynamics, population density, and soil quality of agricultural land. Isoline mapping is used in the construction of maps of temporary transport accessibility, where the main methods of mapping are isochrones. To conduct a comprehensive assessment of the favorable resource potential of rural areas, the method of applying thematic maps is used, i.e. overlay operations. The methodology proposed by the authors as a whole allows the formation of an information database that includes information on the dynamics of the rural population in Volgograd region for individual villages, individual rural settlements, the density of the rural population in rural settlements, the conditions of transport accessibility of rural settlements, and the natural fertility of agricultural land in rural settlements, on the differences in resource potential in rural settlements.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Land settlement Agricultural geography"
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Mandurino, Sally Timmins. "The impact of the physical and cultural geography of southeastern Utah on Latter-day settlement." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1998. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,33227.
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Santos, Fábio Ferreira. "O fetiche da tecnologia no espaço agrário : o caso dos assentamentos rurais Jacaré Curituba e Edmilson Oliveira em Sergipe." Pós-Graduação em Geografia, 2013. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5582.
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This study examines the use of technology in rural settlements Gator Curituba and Edmilson de Oliveira, located respectively in the cities of San Francisco and the Caninde Carira in the state of Sergipe and their repercussions on the production of space and the reproduction of peasant families. From a reasoned analysis of the contradictions of the process of production and reproduction of space by human actions arising from the inclusion of capital in the field through the introduction of technologies for public policies the state is present implementing policies for rural settlements, which reverberate territorial transformations in the region. It was observed that in the study area, contradictorily, peasant production units resist cultivating various products that meet the basic needs of food. In the study area, are produced various products for the National School Feeding Programme, National Programme of Use and biodiesel production, to processing industries and for family consumption. However, capital appropriates output for playback, as monopolizes the territory of rural settlements appropriating agricultural production units and redefining peasant from production, social relations of production. In turn, farmers are looking for ways of resistance and permanence in the field through diversification of production, planting crops such as vegetables , vegetables and fruits , friendly products market acceptance , which confirms the strength of these subjects in the creation and recreation of peasantry even being subordinated to capital.<br>Esse estudo analisa o uso da tecnologia nos assentamentos rurais Jacaré-Curituba e Edmilson de Oliveira, situados respectivamente nos municípios de Canindé do São Francisco e Carira, no estado de Sergipe e seus rebatimentos na produção do espaço e na reprodução das famílias camponesas. A partir de uma análise fundamentada nas contradições do processo de produção e reprodução do espaço pelas ações humanas oriundo da inserção do capital no campo via introdução de tecnologias por políticas públicas o Estado faz-se presente implementando políticas para os assentamentos rurais, as quais repercutem em transformações territoriais na região. Observou-se que na área de estudo, contraditoriamente, as unidades produtivas camponesas resistem cultivando diversos produtos que suprem as necessidades básicas de alimentação. Na área de estudo, são produzidos diversos produtos destinados ao Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar, Programa Nacional de Uso e produção do biodiesel, às indústrias de beneficiamento e para o consumo da família. Entretanto, o capital apropria-se da produção para sua reprodução, à medida que monopoliza o território dos assentamentos rurais se apropriando da produção agrícola das unidades camponesas e redefinindo desde a produção, às relações sociais de produção. Por sua vez, os camponeses procuram formas de resistência e permanência no campo através da diversificação da produção, plantando outras culturas, como hortaliças, verduras e frutas, produtos de fácil aceitação do mercado, o que confirma a força desses sujeitos na criação e recriação do campesinato mesmo sendo subordinado ao capital.
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Marques, Leônidas de Santana. "Os Fundos de Pasto do município de Monte Santo (BA) e a política de desenvolvimento territorial : conflitos e interesses territoriais no campo." Pós-Graduação em Geografia, 2013. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5575.
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In recent years, the debate about Fundos and Fechos de Pasto communities has grown considerably. This can be recognized as a major step forward in the context of academic thought that can insert more intensely in the national agrarian context and structure. It was necessary to analyze some intricacies that pertain to communities daily life, particularly regarding their relationship with the State. In this sense, the objective of this dissertation is to analyze the relationship between the process of struggle and resistance of Fundos de Pasto communities and territorial development policy at Monte Santo city, in Bahia state, Brazil. Along this, the creation of institutional territories ("rural" and "da cidadania" on a national scale, and "de identidade" on a regional scale) is related with the way as today the State behaves as an agent in the capitalist production of geographical space. From the methodological point of view, the approach was based on analytical historical and dialectical materialism and the geographical perspective of the production of space, with territory as central concept. The research was based on a predominantly qualitative analysis, using primary data (interviews and focus groups) and secondary (from government and non-governmental institutions). Fundos de Pasto communities reality in general and specific features of Monte Santo municipality were analyzed in the first few chapters, taken quantitative and historic data of agrarian economy into account, aiming to recognize and to spatialize the various ways in which locally materializes the peasant conflict for land/territory. After this, it was considered the process of internationalization of capital and their reflections about the State, relating to the way in which public policies are designed. Finally, it was more thoroughly analyzed the insertion of Monte Santo municipality and their communities in the context of Território do Sisal and the State s management and planning mechanisms, linking it with the various interests that are stroked and the connection between appearance and essence in building institutional territories. It is acknowledged that the territorial development policy necessarily exists following two basic premises, which are essentially convergent: first, it will never be viable from the democratic and popular State point of view, because it will not be from institutional mechanisms that will have its nature changed; second, the territorial development policy is completely feasible from the point of view that might become the guarantor of capital progress from mechanisms that incorporate social participation as save-conduct.<br>O debate sobre a questão das comunidades camponesas de Fundo e Fecho de Pasto tem crescido consideravelmente nos últimos anos. Isso pode ser reconhecido como um importante avanço no contexto do pensamento acadêmico que pode inserir de forma mais intensa essa discussão na conjuntura e estrutura agrária nacional. Ainda assim, sentiu-se a necessidade de analisar alguns meandros que perpassam o cotidiano dessas comunidades, principalmente quanto a sua relação com o Estado. Neste sentido, o objetivo geral desta dissertação é analisar as relações entre o processo de luta e resistência das comunidades de Fundo de Pasto e a política de desenvolvimento territorial no município de Monte Santo, estado da Bahia. Com isto, tem-se em conta que compreender a criação dos territórios institucionais ( rurais e da cidadania em escala nacional, e de identidade em escala estadual) é problematizar essencialmente a forma de atuação do Estado enquanto agente na produção capitalista do espaço geográfico. Do ponto de vista metodológico, teve-se como fundamento analítico o materialismo histórico-dialético e a perspectiva geográfica da produção do espaço, com centralidade para o conceito de território. A pesquisa baseou-se em uma análise predominantemente qualitativa, utilizando-se de dados primários (entrevistas e grupos focais) e secundários (provenientes de instituições governamentais ou não). Nos primeiros capítulos, considera-se a realidade das comunidades de Fundo de Pasto de uma forma geral, bem como as especificidades do município de Monte Santo. São levados em conta dados quantitativos e históricos da conjuntura agrária, objetivando reconhecer e espacializar as diversas formas como se materializa o conflito pela terra/território camponês localmente. Após isto, considerou-se o processo de internacionalização do capital e seus reflexos sobre o Estado, relacionando com a forma como as políticas públicas passam a ser pensadas. Por fim, analisa-se mais detidamente a inserção do município de Monte Santo e de suas comunidades no contexto do Território do Sisal e dos mecanismos de gestão e planejamento do Estado, relacionando-o com os diversos interesses que são traçados e a conexão entre aparência e essência na construção dos territórios institucionais. Reconhece-se que a política de desenvolvimento territorial existe necessariamente seguindo dois prismas básicos (que, em essência, convergem): primeiro, nunca será viável do ponto de vista de democratização e popularização do Estado, porque não será a partir de mecanismos institucionais que este terá a sua natureza alterada; segundo, a política de desenvolvimento territorial é completamente viável do ponto de vista de que pode se tornar a garantidora do avanço do capital a partir de mecanismos que incorporem a participação social como salvo conduto.
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Bateson, Jeanne. "The residential development process and its impact on agricultural land." Thesis, Durham University, 1989. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6739/.
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Two interrelated topics, the mechanisms which underlie the residential development process, and the impact of urban development upon agricultural land and practice, provide the substance of this thesis. The adopted behavioural approach leads to emphasis upon the themes of motivation, interaction, power relationships, and conflict between and within selected participant groups: property developers, planners, councillors, landowners, estate agents, financial intermediaries and farmers. A micro-scale analysis of groups operating within the City of Durham District is used, in part, as illustrative material in a wider consideration of major issues associated with housing, planning, government intervention in the land market, changing agricultural practice and conservation. However, focussing attention upon the mechanisms and effects of small town expansion does, itself, reflect increasing concern with observed national trends towards counter-urbanisation. Consideration is given to means of improving the performance of the residential development process, in the private and public sectors, and of minimizing its adverse impact upon agriculturalists. These are examined in the light of obstacles to progress associated with the various difficulties: defining and implementing multiple objectives; coping with fragmented decision-making structures at local and national levels; overcoming the powerful pressures exerted by political lobbies and self-interest; and challenging the inherent conservatism exhibited by many of the key decision-making groups. Attention is drawn to major issues within countryside planning, including agricultural land protection, multiple land resource use, and environmental responsibility, but these are discussed in the context of social, economic and housing issues which inevitably exert competing demands upon resources.Progress towards improved land use and user management within the study area is identified, and comment is made on the need for, and practicality of, proposed national comprehensive land use plans for the 'rural-urban fringe' and for the countryside in general.
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Abdullah, Rahman. "The influence of settlement patterns on agricultural productivity in Central Sulawesi Indonesia /." Göttingen : Cuvillier, 2000. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009315102&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Gwazie, Yousef Otman. "The impact of agricultural development plans on the agricultural land settlement at the Jefara plain, northwest Libya." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421256.
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Bird, Polly. "Landownership and settlement change in south-west Cheshire from 1750 to 2000." Thesis, University of Chester, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/68596.
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This work analyses the impact of landownership on the physical development and other factors affecting settlements in south-west Cheshire between 1750 and 2000, seeking to demonstrate the hypothesis that landownership was the overriding influence on settlement growth or decline. To assist in this the work also addresses the related problem of how most accurately to analyse landownership in townships. It therefore presents an original methodology using the Herfmdahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) in an historical context to determine the amount of landowner concentration in a township. The use of HHI as a measure of landownership concentration (indicating the extent of large landowner control) is presented as a more accurate, easy to use, quantifiable method of analysis than the traditional distinction between 'open' and 'closed'. Following a demonstration of HHI's superiority over the traditional terms using examples in south-west Cheshire, HHI is used to analyse the effect on settlement development of landownership trends in the area. HHI is then used to analyse the effect of dominant landowners on the main population trends, transport infrastructure, farming, enclosure and twentieth-century planning and legislation in relation to settlement development in the area. HHI supports the main conclusion that decisions made by large landowners and subsequently planners in south-west Cheshire had a continuous and profound effect on settlement patterns and development from the mid-eighteenth century up to the end of the twentieth century. The intervention and influence of the major landowners and twentieth-century planners hindered settlement growth. Landowners had both a direct influence on settlement development through the buying and selling of land and an indirect influence through their role in determining the transport infrastructure and their bequest of a prevailing pattern of land use, which in turn was preserved via modern planning decisions. Following the decline of major landowners during the early twentieth century, planning laws restricted building in agricultural areas with the aim of preserving agricultural land. Analysis of land tax records in conjunction with HHI shows that although landownership consolidation took place, the number of smaller landowners was maintained and even increased in places and such building as took place was focussed on the increasing number of smaller plots. HHI also demonstrates the discernible trend that in south-west Cheshire the settlements that were the larger, more open settlements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were those that increased in size both physically and in terms of population throughout the period while the smaller closed settlements tended to stagnate or decline. Overall the research has demonstrated that settlements flourished in low HHI townships with less control by large landowners, that settlements in high HHI townships were rarely allowed to grow, and that patterns established in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were perpetuated into the late twentieth and early twenty-first century by a conservative approach to planning.
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Stone, Glenn Davis. "Agrarian ecology and settlement patterns: An ethnoarchaeological case study." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184498.
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Although settlement patterns are a central topic of archaeological research, there is a paucity of general theory on the determinants of agrarian settlement. What passes for a theory of agrarian settlement in archaeology is a borrowed model which does not recognize the relationship between population density and agricultural intensity. This dissertation argues that the rules determining where farmers settle are inextricable from how they farm. Ethnohistoric and ethnoarchaeological data are used to investigate the relationship between agricultural change and the determinants of settlement location in the case of the Kofyar, a population of farmers colonizing a frontier area in the central Nigerian savanna. As they moved into an area with a low ratio of population to productive land, Kofyar agriculture was extensified in accord with the Boserup (1965) model. With potentially greater travel costs associated with domestic water than with farm plots, streams exerted a strong attraction to early settlements. With increasing land pressure, the attraction value of farmland eclipsed the attraction to water. Contrary to Boserup's theory that agricultural responses to land pressure cross-cut environments, analysis of settlement histories of over 1000 households shows that responses vary with soil type. Farmers on high-quality sandstone-derived soils tend to intensify cultivation, while farmers on inferior shale-derived and igneous-derived soils tend to abandon their farms when yields begin to decline. The location of Kofyar compounds with respect to each other is closely related to the labor demands of agricultural production. The restricted range of distances between residential compounds reflects the reliance on inter-household collaboration in agricultural production.
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Himiyama, Yukio. "A comparative study of culture space in Japan and Britain." Tokyo : Taga Shuppan, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/20473975.html.
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Xulu, Sifiso. "Land degradation and settlement intensification in Umhlathuze Municipality." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86208.
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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The multifaceted land degradation problem and its associated manifold impacts have attracted
research from different disciplines, resulting in varying definitions of the concept. However, most
researchers agree that human intervention that deteriorates the state of the environment is the central
element. Among the anthropogenic activities that exacerbate land degradation, land cover has been
singled out as the salient element. Rapid and unplanned land cover changes are primary
manifestations of this problem. UMhlathuze Municipality, the study area which has superior
biodiversity richness, is one of fastest growing municipalities in South Africa and is the locale of
significant land modifications in recent decades because of a variety of industrial and residential
developments.
Using Landsat TM imagery acquired for 1984, 1996 and 2004, this study mapped and
quantified land cover change and manifestations of land degradation in the uMhlathuze
Municipality in conjunction with settlement intensification computed from orthophotographs
acquired for 1984 and 2004. Census population statistics were analysed as a reflection of population
dynamics and further to gauge related causes of land cover change. Geographical information
technology (GIT) was applied as an analytical tool.
The results revealed the anthropogenic influences that led to changes in land cover over the 20-
year period between 1984 and 2004. The dominant natural cover classes in 1984 declined
continuously and human-dominated land categories had increased sharply by 2004. Much of
grasslands, forest and wetlands were converted to monotypical agroforestry (sugar cane and forestry
plantations), built-up settlement and mining. These changes engendered complete loss of
biodiversity (floral and migration of fauna). Bare ground, signifying land degradation, was noticeable although it exhibited a fluctuating trend which could be attributable to differences
between the various imagery used. Along with population growth, the area of settlements increased
over the study period and spatially sprawled from urban areas. Settlements showed a fairly stable
spatial configuration over the 20-year period, but became magnified in medium- and high-density
areas. Grassland and wetlands occurring around Richards Bay, as well as indigenous forest near
Port Durnford, were identified as critically threatened ecosystems. The proposed industrial
development zone and port expansion were recognized as having adverse ecological implications
for wetlands. The study concluded that significant land cover changes occurred in the form of
natural land cover giving way to monotypical agroforestry, built-up settlements and mining - all to the detriment of pristine natural habitat.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die veelvlakkige probleem van omgewingsdegradasie en die gepaardgaande veelsoortige
impakte lok navorsing uit verskillende dissiplines, wat lei tot verskillende definisies van die konsep.
Tog is die meeste navorsers dit eens dat menslike invloede die sentrale element is wat die toestand
van die omgewing verswak. Van die vele menslike aktiwiteite is grondgebruikverandering
uitgesonder as die belangrikste beïnvloeder van agteruitgang van die omgewing. Veral vinnige en
onbeplande grondgebruikveranderinge verteenwoordig die primêre manifestasies van hierdie
probleem. UMhlathuze Munisipaliteit, die studiegebied met 'n hoë biodiversiteitsrykdom, is een van
die vinnigste groeiende munisipaliteite in Suid-Afrika, waar 'n verskeidenheid nywerheids- en
residensiële ontwikkelings beduidende grondgebruikverandering oor die afgelope dekades dryf.
Met behulp van Landsat TM beelde van 1984, 1996 en 2004, is hierdie studiegebied gekarteer
en oppervlaktes gekwantifiseer om grondgebruikverandering en verwante manifestasies van die
agteruitgang van landbedekking in die uMhlathuze Munisipaliteit te konstateer. Tesame hiermee is
die verdigting van nedersettings ook met behulp van ortofoto’s van 1984 en 2004 aangeteken.
Bevolkingsensusstatistieke is ontleed as weerspieëling van die gepaardgaande bevolkingsdinamika
en om moontlike oorsake van verandering in grondbedekking te bepaal. Vir hierdie doel is
geografiese inligtingstegnologie (GIT ) as analitiese instrument toegepas. Die resultate toon antropogeniese invloede lei tot veranderinge in grondbedekking oor die
tydperk van 20 jaar tussen 1984 en 2004. Die dominante natuurlike dekkingsklasse in 1984 het
voortdurend verminder en menslik-gedomineerde kategorieë het teen 2004 skerp gestyg. Baie van
die grasvelde, woude en vleilande is daadwerklik omskep tot monotipiese agro-bosbou (suikerrieten
bosbouplantasies), beboude nedersetting en mynbou. Hierdie veranderinge behels 'n volledige
verlies van biodiversiteit (plantegroei en migrasie van fauna). Kaalgrond, wat dui op die
agteruitgang van grondbedekking, was ook opvallend, hoewel dit 'n wisselende tendens toon wat
ook kan wees as gevolg van die verskille tussen die beeldmateriaal wat gebruik is. Saam met die
groei van die bevolking is bevind dat nedersettings oor die studieperiode toegeneem het en in
tipiese spreipatrone weg van die stedelike gebiede uitbrei. Nedersettings het 'n redelik stabiele
ruimtelike liggingsopset oor die tydperk van 20 jaar getoon, maar het in medium- en hoë- digtheid
gebiedeverdeel. Die voorkoms van grasveld en vleiland rondom Richardsbaai, asook inheemse
woud naby Port Durnford, is geïdentifiseer as krities-bedreigde ekosisteme. Die voorgestelde
nywerheidsontwikkelingsone en hawe-uitbreiding is geïdentifiseer as ontwikkelings met nadelige
ekologiese implikasies vir vleilande. Daar is dus tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat beduidende
voortgaande grondbedekkingveranderinge in die gebied voorkom, waarin natuurlike landdekking
transformeer tot monotipiese agrobosbou, beboude nedersettings en mynbou - alles tot nadeel van
die ongerepte natuurlike habitat.
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Malone, Bobbie. Learning from the land: Wisconsin land use. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2001.
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"U-milʼu et ha-arets": Ha-hityashvut be-Erets-Yiśraʼel ba-teḳufah ha-Romit ha-meʼuḥeret uva-teḳufah ha-Bizanṭit, 135-640 li-s. ha. N. Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, 2008.
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Hartenstein, Michael A. Neue Dorflandschaften: Nationalsozialistische Siedlungsplanung in den "eingegliederten Ostgebieten" 1939 bis 1944. Köster, 1998.
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Carlos, Gómez Bellard, and Docter Roald F, eds. Rural landscapes of the Punic world. Equinox, 2008.
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Riksantikvarieämbetet, Sweden, ed. The ecology of expansion and abandonment: Medieval and post-medieval agriculture and settlement in a landscape perspective. Riksantikvarieämbetet forlag, 2007.
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Encontro Nacional de Geografia Agrária (6th 1985 Garanhuns, Brazil). Anais do 6o. Encontro Nacional de Geografia Agrária. Editora Massangana, 1985.
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Encontro, Nacional de Geografia Agrária (6th 1985 Garanhuns Brazil). Anais do 6o. Encontro Nacional de Geografia Agrária.: Conferências. Editora Massangana, 1985.
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Early medieval settlements: The archaeology of rural communities in North-West Europe, 400-900. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Davidson, Bruce R. "Land Settlement in Australia Since 1788." In Migrants in Agricultural Development. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11830-4_5.
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Zhan, Jinyan, Feng Wu, Zhihui Li, Yingzhi Lin, and Chenchen Shi. "Impact Assessments on Agricultural Productivity of Land-Use Change." In Springer Geography. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48008-3_2.
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Alakoz, V. V., S. I. Nosov, A. K. Ogleznev, and B. E. Bondarev. "Contrast of Soil Cover as a Factor of Land Suitability for Agricultural Production." In Springer Geography. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89602-1_23.
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Paudel Khatiwada, Shanta, Jifei Zhang, Yi Su, Bikash Paudel, and Wei Deng. "Agricultural Land Use Intensity and Determinants in Different Agroecological Regions in Central Nepal Himalaya." In Springer Geography. Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2890-8_13.
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Grigorov, Borislav, and Assen Assenov. "Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land in Mala Planina." In Key Challenges in Geography. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28191-5_21.
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Conliffe, Alexandra. "2.2 Geography Matters: Understanding Smallholder Livelihoods in Rural Khorezm." In Restructuring land allocation, water use and agricultural value chains. V&R Unipress, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/9783737002974.45.
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Aagesen, Sonja, and Suzana Dragićević. "EARLI: A Complex Systems Approach for Modeling Land-use Change and Settlement Growth in Early Agricultural Societies." In Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer International Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01285-8_9.
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"11. Agricultural Settlement and Land Use in Mountains." In Mountain Geography. University of California Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520956971-015.
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Duram, Leslie Aileen, and J. Clark Archer. "Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use." In Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233923.003.0033.
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The Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use (CARLU) Specialty Group was organized in 1985 (Napton 1989) to provide a forum for researchers who identify, describe, and explain the geographical patterns of agricultural activity and rural land use. Indeed, rural and agricultural geographers study many aspects of rural land use, including rural settlement, rural environmental management, the globalization of primary industries (i.e. agriculture, forestry, and mining), and also utilize spatial technologies for rural systems analysis. The various dimensions, consequences and policy implications of long-term sustainability of rural landscapes in industrialized, capitalist countries and particularly in North America, have been matters of special attention (Pierce 1994; Troughton 1995; Ilbery 1998). The early Jeffersonian ideal of a nation populated predominately by rural freeholders remains a popular and persistent theme in American culture. The country craft motifs of cows, chickens, and apples adorn many urban kitchens. Nearly all children know Laura Ingalls Wilder’s popular stories about a Farmer Boy (Wilder 1933) or a Little House on the Prairie (Wilder 1935). But the agrarian conditions Wilder describes in these stories near the start of the twentieth century bear little resemblance to the conditions faced by farmers in rural areas at the start of the twenty-first century due to social and agricultural change (Bell 1989; Baltensperger 1991; Roberts 1996; Lang et al. 1997; Lawrence 1997). Likewise, the quaint scenes of chickens and pigs printed on paper towels do not hint at current environmental and social concerns with large-scale livestock production in the US (Furuseth 1997; Hart and Mayda 1997). In many ways these historically imbedded ideals clash with the current reality of rural areas. Rural and agricultural researchers provide insight into how rural North America evolved to look like it does today. Their research helps describe the cultural, economic, environmental, political, and social forces that influenced and continue to influence rural places. This research often suggests what alternatives are available for rural areas in the future. Following the introduction, this chapter is organized according to four main research themes: rural regions, agricultural location theory, rural land-use change, and agricultural sustainability.
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Kedar, Alexandre, Ahmad Amara, and Oren Yiftachel. "Historical Geography of the Negev: Bedouin Agriculture." In Emptied Lands. Stanford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503603585.003.0006.
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This chapter begins the task of challenging the geographical components of the DND, by providing a thorough account of the historical geography of the Negev, drawing on various historical accounts of European travelers and Zionists. Relying on these accounts, it challenges the hegemonic history and narrative that depict the Negev as an uncultivated and unsettled desert used by nomadic Bedouins. The chapter demonstrates that the human geography of the northern Negev was characterized, at least from the 19th century, by widespread agriculture, in parallel to traditional pastoralism. There is ample evidence that Bedouin agricultural settlement in general had existed for centuries, including among the al-‘Uqbi tribe in the ‘Araqib area. The chapter shows organized local habitation and economic activities, based on a customary and well developed land system.
Conference papers on the topic "Land settlement Agricultural geography"
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Mardiatno, Djati, Cintya Wahyu Permatasari, Mukhamad Ngainul Malawani, and Fitria Nuraini Sekarsih. "Tsunami Risk Evaluation Based on Land Suitability for Settlement in Pacitan Coastal Area, East Java." In lst International Cohference on Geography and Education (ICGE 2016). Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icge-16.2017.9.
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Némethová, Jana, and Melánia Feszterová,. "Agriculture Development of the Nitra Region in the Context of Slovakia after year 2004." In 27th edition of the Central European Conference with subtitle (Teaching) of regional geography. Masaryk University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9694-2020-12.
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The agriculture in Slovakia has undergone structural changes since its accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004, that have been linked to the adoption of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU Member States. The article focuses on the Nitra region as a typical agricultural region of Slovakia and its development from the agricultural point of view from 2004. Compared to other Slovak regions the Nitra region has good soil climatic ratios, for the development of agriculture. The Nitra region has the largest share of agricultural land which is characterized by a high-level share of arable land from total agricultural land. The region has the highest values in gross agricultural production from the 2004-2016 reporting period. It has good results in plant and livestock production. The region has the highest employment in agriculture. Despite the decline in agricultural land, as well as a decline in total employment in agriculture, the region has the highest employment in agriculture in Slovakia. It is characterized by a well-developed business structure for intensive agricultural production.
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Kolejka, Jaromír, and Eva Nováková. "Pre-industrial landscape of the Jeseníky region as a natural and cultural heritage." In 27th edition of the Central European Conference with subtitle (Teaching) of regional geography. Masaryk University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9694-2020-7.
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Small parcels of agricultural land are rare in the present landscape of Czech Republic and become the subject of interests of the state protection of the nature, the landscape and the environment. At the same time, such areas represent interesting subjects for the local administration as attractive tourist object. In the historical territory of Moravia (the eastern 1/3 of the Czech Republic), a regional inventory of areas with preserved ancient land use structure was carried out on all individual cadastral territories (focused not only on small parcels, but also on large aristocratic estates on agricultural and forest land originated before the main wave of industrial revolution Moravia, before 1850. The sites are still subjects to topic economic pressure on land consolidation. Their existence in the future is under threat and is decreasing every year both in number and size. The inventory results are presented on example of the Jeseníky region.
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Chen, Chih-Hung, and Chun-Ya Chuang. "Urban form in special geographical conditions: a case study in Kenting National Park." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6186.
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Urban form in special geographical conditions: a case study in Kenting National Park. Chih-Hung Chen¹, Chun-Ya Chuang¹ ¹Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University E-mail: chihhungchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw Keywords: Kenting National Park, special geographical conditions, Historico-Geographical approach, morphotope Conference topics and scale: City transformations Since the land surface is heterogeneous, the natural landscape as an essential element in contemporary morphological studies becomes the initial factor in the formation of a settlement. Moreover, the interaction with natural landscape, built form and the boundary matrix can illuminate ecological perspective on the form of the city. (Scheer, 2016) To understand the urban form under special geographical conditions, a case study is conducted in Kenting National Park, which is a tropical area with rich landscape such as moutains, lakes and rivers, plains, basins, and surrounded by seas. An analytical approach based on Historico-Geographical approach (Kropf, 2009; Oliveira, 2016) is applied in this paper. After identifying the scope of 42 settlements, there are three outer shape types such as compact, scattered, linear. Then, three kinds of morphotopes (Conzen, 1988) can mainly be figured out by comparing the combination between streets, buildings and plots: i) Detached, duplex houses on small plots along the access road; ii) Attached buildings on small plots along the main road; iii) Villas or hotels on large plots along the main road. Finally, the relationship between the larger plan units (Conzen, 1960) and the geographical conditions shows that the homogeneous configuration of plan units corresponds to the certain landscape. On the other hand, this article seeks to find out the impacts and changes caused by special geographical conditions in consequence of the landscape affects not only the formation of urban form but the evolution because its influence on socio-economic conditions. References Conzen, M. R. G. (1960) Alnwick, Northumberland: A study in Town-plan Analysis (Institute of British Geographers, London). Conzen, M.R.G. (1988) ‘Morphogenesis, morphological regions, and secular human agency in the historic townscape, as exemplified by Ludlow’, in Urban Historical Geography. Recent progress in Britain and Germany, 253-272. Kropf, K. (2009) ‘Aspects of urban form’, Urban morphology 13(2), 105-20. Oliveira, V. (2016) Urban Morphology (Springer International Publishing, Switzerland), 102-111. Scheer, B. C. (2016) ‘The epistemology of urban morphology’, Urban Morphology 20, 5-17.
Reports on the topic "Land settlement Agricultural geography"
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Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Iron Age Scotland. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.193.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings: Building blocks: The ultimate aim should be to build rich, detailed and testable narratives situated within a European context, and addressing phenomena from the longue durée to the short-term over international to local scales. Chronological control is essential to this and effective dating strategies are required to enable generation-level analysis. The ‘serendipity factor’ of archaeological work must be enhanced by recognising and getting the most out of information-rich sites as they appear. o There is a pressing need to revisit the archives of excavated sites to extract more information from existing resources, notably through dating programmes targeted at regional sequences – the Western Isles Atlantic roundhouse sequence is an obvious target. o Many areas still lack anything beyond the baldest of settlement sequences, with little understanding of the relations between key site types. There is a need to get at least basic sequences from many more areas, either from sustained regional programmes or targeted sampling exercises. o Much of the methodologically innovative work and new insights have come from long-running research excavations. Such large-scale research projects are an important element in developing new approaches to the Iron Age. Daily life and practice: There remains great potential to improve the understanding of people’s lives in the Iron Age through fresh approaches to, and integration of, existing and newly-excavated data. o House use. Rigorous analysis and innovative approaches, including experimental archaeology, should be employed to get the most out of the understanding of daily life through the strengths of the Scottish record, such as deposits within buildings, organic preservation and waterlogging. o Material culture. Artefact studies have the potential to be far more integral to understandings of Iron Age societies, both from the rich assemblages of the Atlantic area and less-rich lowland finds. Key areas of concern are basic studies of material groups (including the function of everyday items such as stone and bone tools, and the nature of craft processes – iron, copper alloy, bone/antler and shale offer particularly good evidence). Other key topics are: the role of ‘art’ and other forms of decoration and comparative approaches to assemblages to obtain synthetic views of the uses of material culture. o Field to feast. Subsistence practices are a core area of research essential to understanding past society, but different strands of evidence need to be more fully integrated, with a ‘field to feast’ approach, from production to consumption. The working of agricultural systems is poorly understood, from agricultural processes to cooking practices and cuisine: integrated work between different specialisms would assist greatly. There is a need for conceptual as well as practical perspectives – e.g. how were wild resources conceived? o Ritual practice. There has been valuable work in identifying depositional practices, such as deposition of animals or querns, which are thought to relate to house-based ritual practices, but there is great potential for further pattern-spotting, synthesis and interpretation. Iron Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report v Landscapes and regions: Concepts of ‘region’ or ‘province’, and how they changed over time, need to be critically explored, because they are contentious, poorly defined and highly variable. What did Iron Age people see as their geographical horizons, and how did this change? Attempts to understand the Iron Age landscape require improved, integrated survey methodologies, as existing approaches are inevitably partial. Aspects of the landscape’s physical form and cover should be investigated more fully, in terms of vegetation (known only in outline over most of the country) and sea level change in key areas such as the firths of Moray and Forth. Landscapes beyond settlement merit further work, e.g. the use of the landscape for deposition of objects or people, and what this tells us of contemporary perceptions and beliefs. Concepts of inherited landscapes (how Iron Age communities saw and used this longlived land) and socal resilience to issues such as climate change should be explored more fully. Reconstructing Iron Age societies. The changing structure of society over space and time in this period remains poorly understood. Researchers should interrogate the data for better and more explicitly-expressed understandings of social structures and relations between people. The wider context: Researchers need to engage with the big questions of change on a European level (and beyond). Relationships with neighbouring areas (e.g. England, Ireland) and analogies from other areas (e.g. Scandinavia and the Low Countries) can help inform Scottish studies. Key big topics are: o The nature and effect of the introduction of iron. o The social processes lying behind evidence for movement and contact. o Parallels and differences in social processes and developments. o The changing nature of houses and households over this period, including the role of ‘substantial houses’, from crannogs to brochs, the development and role of complex architecture, and the shift away from roundhouses. o The chronology, nature and meaning of hillforts and other enclosed settlements. o Relationships with the Roman world