Open AccessESTIMATION AND TRENDS OF LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Author(s) -
Daumantas Bauža
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of environmental engineering and landscape management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.514
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1822-4199
pISSN - 1648-6897
DOI - 10.3846/16486897.2007.9636918
Subject(s) - human settlement , geography , fluvial , agrarian society , scale (ratio) , physical geography , estimation , land cover , settlement (finance) , transformation (genetics) , cover (algebra) , soil cover , land use , structural basin , archaeology , environmental science , geology , geomorphology , cartography , agriculture , civil engineering , soil science , computer science , engineering , chemistry , world wide web , biochemistry , payment , gene , systems engineering , mechanical engineering , soil water
The transformation of landscape cover structure in 1957–2000 is the purpose of this paper. By cartographic material (maps to scale 1:50 000) the changes of landscape cover elements (forests, settlements, farmlands, roads, streams, etc) and causality are analysed. Most transformations resulted from the Agrarian Reform. Major part of the investigated territory consists of reduced farmland areas, expanded settlements and denser road networks. The study was performed in 3 reference territories with a different relief - hilly morainic, fluvioglacial and fluvial.