Land-use and land-cover changes in the Krapina-Zagorje county from 1991 to 2011
Authors: Cvitanović, M.
Journal: Hrvatski Geografski Glasnik
Volume: 76
Issue: 1
Pages: 41-60
ISSN: 1331-5854
DOI: 10.21861/hgg.2014.76.01.03
Abstract:Land-use and land-cover changes reflect the character of a society's interaction with its physical environment, which becomes obvious when it is possible to observe different economic and social systems occupying the same environment. The area studied in this paper, Krapina-Zagorje County, has gone through major social and economic changes in the 1991-2001 period, which has left its mark on the landscape. Land-use and landcover has changed in about 25 % of the studied area, with major trajectories being from grassland to agricultural land and vice versa. This is the result of processes of agricultural abandonment on one side and agricultural intensification on the other. These processes, along with unfavourable demographic trends and very small land plots (averaging 1 ha), present a major challenge in the process of agricultural restructuring and preservation of cultural landscapes in the county.
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