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National Level Land-Use Changes in Functional Urban Areas in Poland, Slovakia, and Czechia

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  • Agnieszka Wnęk

    (Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Balicka 253a, 30-149 Krakow, Poland)

  • Dawid Kudas

    (Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Land Surveying, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Balicka 253a, 30-149 Krakow, Poland)

  • Premysl Stych

    (Faculty of Science, Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Charles University, EO4Landscape Research Team, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague, Czech Republic)

Abstract

Land-use and cover change (LUCC) impacts global environmental changes. Therefore, it is crucial to obtain cross-national level LUCC data that represents past and actual LUCC. As urban areas exhibit the most significant dynamics of the changes, accompanied by such processes as urban sprawl, it seems desirable to take into account LUCC information from such areas to acquire national level information. The paper analyses land-use changes (LUCs) in urban areas in Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia. The analysis is based on functional urban area (FUA) data from the European Urban Atlas project for 2006 and 2012. The area of urbanised land grew at the expense of agricultural areas, semi-natural areas, and wetlands over the investigated period in all three countries. The authors determined LUC direction models in urban areas based on the identified land-use change. The proposed LUC direction models for the investigated period and area should offer national level LUC data for such purposes as modelling of future changes or can be the point of reference for planning analyses. The paper proposes the following models: mean model, median model, weighted mean model where the weight is the urbanised to vegetated area ratio, and weighted mean model where the weight is the share of urbanised areas. According to the proposed LUC models, areas considered as urbanised grow in FUAs on average in six years by 5.5900‰ in Czechia, 7.5936‰ in Poland, and 4.0769‰ in Slovakia. Additionally, the change models facilitated determination of a LUC dynamics ratio in each country. It reached the highest values in Poland and the lowest in Slovakia.

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  • Agnieszka Wnęk & Dawid Kudas & Premysl Stych, 2021. "National Level Land-Use Changes in Functional Urban Areas in Poland, Slovakia, and Czechia," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-16, January.
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