Changes in land use in El Maresme, Barcelona, (1850-2007)

Authors

  • Luís Parcerisas Benedé

Keywords:

Cambios de usos del suelo, SIG, historia ambiental, El Maresme (Barcelona)

Abstract

This article traces the evolution of the landscape of the Catalan coastal region of El Maresme from
the 1850’s to the present by applying GIS tools to historical cadastral and today’s digital maps of
land use. The results show an integrated coexistence, but also very dynamic and changing, among
different forest, agricultural, horticultural and residential cover, up to mid-twentieth century. The
arrival of the Franco regime meant, first a failure of economic and ecological logic crops and later,
from the 60's, a break of that integration and a growing polarization of land use which has persisted
even during the years of democracy, due to poor planning, that has brought a growing regional
economic inefficiency and a substantial weight loss of the agricultural environment.

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Published

2012-09-18

How to Cite

Parcerisas Benedé, L. (2012). Changes in land use in El Maresme, Barcelona, (1850-2007). Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 44(173), 511–524. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76148

Issue

Vol. XLIV, núm. 173 (2012)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2012 Luís Parcerisas Benedé

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