Long-Term Changes of the Wildland–Urban Interface in the Polish Carpathians

The Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where houses and wildland vegetation meet or intermingle, which causes many environmental problems. The current WUI is widespread in many regions, but it is unclear how the WUI evolved, especially in regions where both houses and forest cover have incre...

Celý popis

Uloženo v:
Podrobná bibliografie
Vydáno v:ISPRS international journal of geo-information Ročník 7; číslo 4; s. 137
Hlavní autoři: Kaim, Dominik, Radeloff, Volker, Szwagrzyk, Marcin, Dobosz, Monika, Ostafin, Krzysztof
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Basel MDPI AG 01.04.2018
Témata:
Area
Carpathians
forest cover
Forests
Housing
Land use
land use change
Long-term changes
Reforestation
Regions
Residential areas
settlements
wildland
Wildland-Urban Interface
WUI
Carpathian Mountains
ISSN:2220-9964, 2220-9964
On-line přístup:Získat plný text
Tagy: Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo vytvoří štítek k tomuto záznamu!
Popis
Shrnutí:The Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where houses and wildland vegetation meet or intermingle, which causes many environmental problems. The current WUI is widespread in many regions, but it is unclear how the WUI evolved, especially in regions where both houses and forest cover have increased. Here we compared WUI change in the Polish Carpathians for 1860 and 2013 in two study areas with different land use history. Our western study area experienced gradual forest increase and housing growth over time, while the eastern study area was subject to a shock due to post-war resettlements, which triggered rapid reforestation. We found that in both study areas WUI extent increased from 1860 to 2013 (41.3 to 54.6%, and 12.2 to 33.3%, in the west and east, respectively). However the causes of WUI growth were very different. In the western study area new houses were the main cause for new WUI, while in the eastern study area forest cover increase was more important. Our results highlight that regions with similar current WUI cover have evolved very differently, and that the WUI has grown rapidly and is widespread in the Polish Carpathians.
Bibliografie:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
content type line 23
ISSN:2220-9964
2220-9964
DOI:10.3390/ijgi7040137