Urban, periurban and horticultural landscapes – Conflict and sustainable planning in La Plata district, Argentina
Globally, urban areas are expanding onto high-quality agricultural soils and natural environments reducing the area available for food production. The Horticultural Belt of La Plata is one of the main horticultural areas in South America. It is a productive territory that lacks clear spatial plannin...
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| author | Baldini, Carolina Marasas, Mariana Edith Tittonell, Pablo Adrian Drozd, Andrea Alejandra |
| author_browse | Baldini, Carolina Drozd, Andrea Alejandra Marasas, Mariana Edith Tittonell, Pablo Adrian |
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| description | Globally, urban areas are expanding onto high-quality agricultural soils and natural environments reducing the area available for food production. The Horticultural Belt of La Plata is one of the main horticultural areas in South America. It is a productive territory that lacks clear spatial planning, resulting in serious socio-environmental problems. Our main objectives were to quantify areas with different land-use aptitude across the region, and to identify areas of potential land-use conflict, detecting those areas that should be prioritized in the development of landscape planning policies. We implement the analytical hierarchy process multicriteria analysis method and a weighted linear combination procedure of factors standardization. We observed a strong influence of urbanization in determining land use in those areas where high/very high aptitude for urbanization and for horticulture overlap. Competition for land use between open field horticulture and greenhouses was observed too. Our research reveals the market influence and the current trend towards intensification of land use that usually prevails in planning strategies. We identified elements that could take part of a multifunctional network of green spaces, made them spatially explicit, and defined a core area for the protection of horticultural production. Finally, we propose recommendations for territorial planning aimed at improving the conditions for the development of more sustainable productive landscapes, a problem that predominates across the world. |
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| spelling | INTA148602023-08-03T11:23:00Z Urban, periurban and horticultural landscapes – Conflict and sustainable planning in La Plata district, Argentina Baldini, Carolina Marasas, Mariana Edith Tittonell, Pablo Adrian Drozd, Andrea Alejandra Horticultura Urbana Agricultura Peri Urbana Sostenibilidad Utilización de la Tierra Urban Horticulture Peri-urban Agriculture Sustainability Land Use La Plata, Buenos Aires Globally, urban areas are expanding onto high-quality agricultural soils and natural environments reducing the area available for food production. The Horticultural Belt of La Plata is one of the main horticultural areas in South America. It is a productive territory that lacks clear spatial planning, resulting in serious socio-environmental problems. Our main objectives were to quantify areas with different land-use aptitude across the region, and to identify areas of potential land-use conflict, detecting those areas that should be prioritized in the development of landscape planning policies. We implement the analytical hierarchy process multicriteria analysis method and a weighted linear combination procedure of factors standardization. We observed a strong influence of urbanization in determining land use in those areas where high/very high aptitude for urbanization and for horticulture overlap. Competition for land use between open field horticulture and greenhouses was observed too. Our research reveals the market influence and the current trend towards intensification of land use that usually prevails in planning strategies. We identified elements that could take part of a multifunctional network of green spaces, made them spatially explicit, and defined a core area for the protection of horticultural production. Finally, we propose recommendations for territorial planning aimed at improving the conditions for the development of more sustainable productive landscapes, a problem that predominates across the world. EEA Bariloche Fil: Baldini, Carolina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales; Argentina Fil: Baldini, Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Marasas, Mariana Edith. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales; Argentina Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Université de Montpellier-Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement. Agroécologie et Intensification Durable (AïDA); Francia Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Groningen University. Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences; Países Bajos Fil: Drozd, Andrea Alejandra. Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda. Department of Environment and Tourism; Argentina Fil: Drozd, Andrea Alejandra. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Regional Center for Genomic Studies; Argentina 2023-08-03T11:16:11Z 2023-08-03T11:16:11Z 2022-06 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/14860 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837722001478 0264-8377 1873-5754 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106120 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf La Plata .......... (inhabited place) (World, South America, Argentina, Buenos Aires) 7006289 Elsevier Land Use Policy 117 : 106120. (June 2022) |
| spellingShingle | Horticultura Urbana Agricultura Peri Urbana Sostenibilidad Utilización de la Tierra Urban Horticulture Peri-urban Agriculture Sustainability Land Use La Plata, Buenos Aires Baldini, Carolina Marasas, Mariana Edith Tittonell, Pablo Adrian Drozd, Andrea Alejandra Urban, periurban and horticultural landscapes – Conflict and sustainable planning in La Plata district, Argentina |
| title | Urban, periurban and horticultural landscapes – Conflict and sustainable planning in La Plata district, Argentina |
| title_full | Urban, periurban and horticultural landscapes – Conflict and sustainable planning in La Plata district, Argentina |
| title_fullStr | Urban, periurban and horticultural landscapes – Conflict and sustainable planning in La Plata district, Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urban, periurban and horticultural landscapes – Conflict and sustainable planning in La Plata district, Argentina |
| title_short | Urban, periurban and horticultural landscapes – Conflict and sustainable planning in La Plata district, Argentina |
| title_sort | urban periurban and horticultural landscapes conflict and sustainable planning in la plata district argentina |
| topic | Horticultura Urbana Agricultura Peri Urbana Sostenibilidad Utilización de la Tierra Urban Horticulture Peri-urban Agriculture Sustainability Land Use La Plata, Buenos Aires |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/14860 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837722001478 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106120 |
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