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Patrimony Assessment and Sustainable Land Resource Management

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 November 2023) | Viewed by 10551

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Dr. Florentina-Cristina Merciu

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Department of Human and Economic Geography, University of Bucharest, 0010041 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: identity heritage assessment and responsible resource management; representations of territorial identity and development; deindustrialization and adaptive reuse of industrial heritage; territorial dynamics; urban planning; urban regeneration; economic geography; geography of resources; rural development in less-favoured areas
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Prof. Dr. Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

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Doctoral School of Urban Planning, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, 010014 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: environmetrics; systems ecology; spatial ecology; geostatistics; urban ecology; landscape ecology; land cover and use; land cover and use changes; sustainable spatial development
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Dr. Maciej J. Nowak

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Real Estate Department, West Pomeranian University of Technology, ul. Żołnierska 47, 71-210 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: law; spatial policy; spatial policy tools; spatial planning; environmental protection
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The human pressure on the environment has been coined, since 2011, in terms of “global changes”, including climate changes, alteration of energy flows, and land cover and use changes. The three leading causes of environmental degradation act separately and together, resulting in irreversible changes. Heritage sites are even more exposed to these pressures. Often, heritage sites contain a rich biodiversity, but also important cultural assets, and their distinct character is the result of the two. In order to preserve the heritage sites, it is important not only to address biodiversity and cultural issues separately, but also their traditional interaction. Preservation strategies should be conceived in a sustainable way, focusing on the future generations and on a sustainable use of natural and cultural resources. Planning could be crucial to the process in all aspects, including strategic, environmental, or spatial planning, but these sides are intrinsically related to administrative, legal and regulatory aspects, which are crucial in determining whether planning can be successful in preserving the heritage.

This Special Issue aims to separately or jointly address all the elements of the nexus described above, in order to investigate the contribution of heritage assessment to sustainable land resource management using theoretical and practical research.

Possible topics include the techniques used to assess the heritage (natural, cultural or both); strategies for its sustainable preservation; the planning of heritage sites; relationships between Nature and culture in heritage sites; resource management in heritage sites; regulatory, administrative, and legal issues related to the preservation of natural and cultural heritage; and many other related topics, bridging the approaches of human and environmental geography.

We equally welcome case studies, good practice examples, comparative studies, as well as theoretical and practical research.

Dr. Florentina-Cristina Merciu
Dr. Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor
Dr. Maciej J. Nowak
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Keywords

  • heritage assessment
  • natural and cultural assessment
  • biodiversity and its conservation
  • management of natural and cultural resources
  • administrative, regulatory, and legal issues related to the conservation of heritage

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Increasing Vulnerability of Village Heritage: Evidence from 123 Villages in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China
by Bin Shi, Hongtao Liu, Lu Huang, Yang Zhang and Zhangyong Xiang
Land 2023, 12(11), 2048; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12112048 - 10 Nov 2023
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As the threat of global risks has increased, the study of village heritage has begun to move away from the interpretation of traditional values or the presentation of historical wisdom to focus on the vulnerability of villages. Taking Chinese traditional villages (a type [...] Read more.
As the threat of global risks has increased, the study of village heritage has begun to move away from the interpretation of traditional values or the presentation of historical wisdom to focus on the vulnerability of villages. Taking Chinese traditional villages (a type of vernacular heritage) as the target, this study clarifies the connotation of village vulnerability and its generation pattern. Drawing on the framework of “exposure-sensitivity-adaptive capacity”, a set of vulnerability evaluation index systems integrating the characteristics of village heritage is proposed. By utilizing vulnerability index and obstacle degree models, we analyze the spatial differentiation and evolutionary characteristics of vulnerability in 123 traditional villages within Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, southwestern China, while also exploring the main factors influencing vulnerability evolution at different spatial scales. The results reveal an “east high, west low” spatial pattern and a clustered distribution of vulnerability in traditional villages across the region. From 2012 to 2019, the vulnerability levels fluctuated and intensified, with decreasing individual differences. The evolutionary characteristics of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity also displayed significant variations. Persistent and stable influences on village vulnerability were identified from factors such as land use scale, population density, gross domestic product, and land fragmentation. Based on these findings, strategic recommendations for village classification, protection, and development are proposed. Full article
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20-Year Ecological Impact Analysis of Shibing Karst World Natural Heritage through Land Use
by Ning Zhang and Yongkuan Chi
Land 2023, 12(11), 1978; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12111978 - 26 Oct 2023
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Changes in the spatial pattern of land use are inextricably linked to the ecosystem environment, and the assessment of regional eco-environment quality can help provide sustainable and healthy development strategies for heritage management organizations. In this study, based on RS and GIS technologies, [...] Read more.
Changes in the spatial pattern of land use are inextricably linked to the ecosystem environment, and the assessment of regional eco-environment quality can help provide sustainable and healthy development strategies for heritage management organizations. In this study, based on RS and GIS technologies, we quantitatively analyzed the characteristics of land use changes in the Shibing Karst World Natural Heritage site from 2000 to 2020, and introduced the regional eco-environment quality assessment index for quantitative factor analysis. The results show that: (1) The heritage site is mainly dominated by forest and shrub, with more aggregated cropland, and impervious surfaces in the buffer zone. The area of shrub has increased during the 20-year period, occupying 12.63% of the total transferred area. Cropland has been basically converted to forest, accounting for more than 60% of the total transferred area, followed by shrubs, which have been basically transferred to ecologically better land types. (2) By analyzing the attitude of motivation, forest, shrub, and water have positive values, while cropland, grassland, and impervious surfaces have negative values. Grassland has the largest absolute value of kinetic attitude, and the smallest is for water. The integrated dynamic attitude is basically maintained at 24%, showing a state of rapid and then stable land category conversion. (3) Over the past 20 years, the regional eco-environment quality index has been stable between 0.68 and 0.71, and shows a trend of rapid growth and stabilization, which is consistent with the comprehensive attitude. The conversion between cropland, forest, and shrubs is the main cause of ecological improvement and deterioration. Overall, the relevant conservation measures at the site and China’s corresponding responses to global climate change have led to a stabilization and increase in the regional ecological quality of the site. The management measures of the relevant authorities have begun to bear fruit, but further promotion of the sustainable development of the site is needed to provide a scientific model for the conservation of other karst heritage sites. Full article
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Spatial Planning at the National Level: Comparison of Legal and Strategic Instruments in a Case Study of Belarus, Ukraine, and Poland
by Maciej Nowak, Viktoriya Pantyley, Małgorzata Blaszke, Liudmila Fakeyeva, Roman Lozynskyy and Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor
Land 2023, 12(7), 1364; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12071364 - 07 Jul 2023
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Comparisons of spatial planning systems still require in-depth reflection, especially in Central and Eastern European countries. This article compares national (central) government approaches to spatial planning in Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, answering the following research questions: (1) How are spatial planning issues regulated [...] Read more.
Comparisons of spatial planning systems still require in-depth reflection, especially in Central and Eastern European countries. This article compares national (central) government approaches to spatial planning in Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, answering the following research questions: (1) How are spatial planning issues regulated nationally? Which topics do laws focus on? What values and objectives are laws particularly emphasizing? (2) Are there any central/national strategic documents dealing with spatial planning, and which spatial issues do they address mostly? The article covers two key issues: comparing national approaches to spatial planning systems and comparing spatial planning issues in the three countries. We focus on statutory approaches and those contained in central-level strategic acts. In each country, spatial planning issues are covered by numerous laws, generating confusion when interpreting individual provisions. Our study makes an important, innovative contribution to the academic discussion by proposing a way of comparing and analyzing approaches of national authorities to spatial planning. Full article
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Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Traditional Village Distribution in China
by Haoran Su, Yaowu Wang, Zhen Zhang and Wen Dong
Land 2022, 11(10), 1631; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101631 - 22 Sep 2022
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Understanding the characteristics of the traditional village distribution contributes to the formulation of relevant protection and development strategies. We adopted a series of spatial analysis methods to investigate the characteristics of the traditional village distribution in China by using the watershed as the [...] Read more.
Understanding the characteristics of the traditional village distribution contributes to the formulation of relevant protection and development strategies. We adopted a series of spatial analysis methods to investigate the characteristics of the traditional village distribution in China by using the watershed as the research unit. Moreover, we conducted quantitative and qualitative analyses of the relevant influencing factors affecting the distribution pattern using Geodetector and mathematical statistics. The findings indicate that traditional villages are distributed unevenly across watershed units. High–High clusters tend to occur at the boundaries of first-level watersheds. Traditional villages have a clear agglomeration trend in space, with a concentrated and contiguous distribution pattern based on the “core density area–ring-core expansion group–belt area”. The key factors affecting the traditional village distribution are annual precipitation, annual average temperature, and river density. The traditional village number has a clear inverted U-shaped relationship with the annual average temperature, river density, and road density. The study reveals the complex and various characteristics of the traditional village distribution and its influence mechanism and offers scientific advice for traditional villages’ future protection and development. Full article
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Spatial Structure and Corridor Construction of Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of the Ming Great Wall
by Feiyang Lin, Xuan Zhang, Zhiyao Ma and Yifu Zhang
Land 2022, 11(9), 1478; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11091478 - 04 Sep 2022
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Exploring the spatial structure of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and constructing heritage corridors are conducive to the adaptive reuse of heritage and the improvement of the surviving environment, which is of great significance to the living inheritance of ICH. Guided by the concept [...] Read more.
Exploring the spatial structure of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and constructing heritage corridors are conducive to the adaptive reuse of heritage and the improvement of the surviving environment, which is of great significance to the living inheritance of ICH. Guided by the concept of the heritage corridor, this study took the ICH along the Ming Great Wall as the research object. Kernel density estimation and a standard deviation ellipse analysis were used to explore the spatial structure and then combined with a suitability analysis of heritage corridors to further explore the spatial locations of corridors. A multifactor spatial superposition was carried out with the minimal cumulative resistance (MCR) method. The resistance factors, including land use type, elevation, slope, road system, river system, and the heritage corridors, were constructed. The results show that: (1) ICH along the Ming Great Wall forms a spatial pattern of “three cores and one belt”. The high-density core areas exist in Beijing and Liaoning, and the secondary core areas exist in northern Ningxia and southwestern Inner Mongolia. This results from the joint action of the natural, economic, and social environment. (2) On the whole, all kinds of ICH are distributed from southwest to northeast, among which folk art is particularly obvious. (3) The distribution trend of suitability is “high in the east and low in the west”. The high-suitability areas are mainly concentrated in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Liaoning regions, while the low-suitability areas are concentrated in Gansu, Ningxia, and northern Inner Mongolia. Finally, this study discusses the appropriate development mode of the heritage corridors of the Ming Great Wall from the macrolevel to the mesolevel. Full article
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Study on the Influence Mechanism of Intangible Cultural Heritage Distribution from Man–Land Relationship Perspective: A Case Study in Shandong Province
by Lin Meng, Chuanguang Zhu, Jie Pu, Bo Wen and Wentao Si
Land 2022, 11(8), 1225; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081225 - 03 Aug 2022
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Spatial autocorrelation, cold and hot spot analysis, and standard deviation ellipse analysis were used to analyze the spatial distribution of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Geodetectors were used to reveal the factors that influenced the distribution in Shandong Province. The results showed that: (1) [...] Read more.
Spatial autocorrelation, cold and hot spot analysis, and standard deviation ellipse analysis were used to analyze the spatial distribution of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Geodetectors were used to reveal the factors that influenced the distribution in Shandong Province. The results showed that: (1) The ICH in Shandong Province covered most ICH types with the difference in the number of expressions of ICH of a different type. Traditional artistry, traditional art, traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics, and folk literature are the main types of ICH. (2) The spatial distribution of ICH showed a great difference. Multiple concentration areas and deficient areas were presented that followed the direction from southwest to northeast. (3) Man–land relationship-related factors such as population, waters, urban–rural size, and air temperature showed important influence on ICH distribution. The influence of interaction among influence factors is higher than a single factor. In summary, man–land relationships are the key factors that influenced ICH distribution. Full article
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