Naslov
Littoralization and Behind : Environmental Change in Mediterranean Croatia

Autori
Fuerst-Bjeliš, Borna ; Durbešić, Anamarija

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The overarching issues of the European space = Grandes problemáticas do espaço europeu : Strategies for Spatial (Re)planning based on Innovation, Sustainability and Change = Estratégias de (Re)ordenamento Territorial num Quadro de Inovação, Sustentabilidade e Mudança

Urednik/ci
Pina, Helena ; Martins, Felisbela ; Ferreira, Cármen

Izdavač
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

Grad
Porto : Bukurešt

Godina
2013

Raspon stranica
136-147

ISBN
978-989-8648-13-6

Ključne riječi
Mediterranean Croatia, littoralization, karst, environmental change, GIS modelling

Sažetak
Mediterranean Croatia is a typical karst environment, with considerable human impact on landscape change. Coping with scarcity of water, soil and regular summer droughts, as main constraints related to Dalmatian karst, population has adopted pastoralism as the most adaptable economic activity and lifestyle throughout the centuries. Excessive pastoralism in the conditions of Mediterranean climate, thin soil cover and especially steep slopes eventually led to the deforestation. However, abandoning of land due to the process of littoralization in the second half of 20th century, initiated the inverse process of natural succession and re-afforestation. For interior Mediterranean Croatia, the littoralization process means primarily the loss of population. Depopulation, at the other hand, reduces the environmental pressure. Thus, depopulation, abandoning of land, and dissolution of traditional lifestyle base primarily on pastoralism and localized tillage zones, start the natural process of succession and reafforestation. GIS modelling of environmental change based on different databases from 19th -21st century pointed to the main trends of landscape change as autochtonous deciduous forest degradation and extensification. The extensification is represented mainly by change of arable to degraded forest, to pasture or to deciduous forest, or change of pasture to degraded forest.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Napomena
Budimpešta ISBN 978-973-7873-47-7.

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