Abstract
The littoral areas of the Mediterranean coastline have undergone a significant transformation due to their historical and intense human occupation. The result has been an evolution of different cultural landscape configurations, ranging from those with a marked agrarian character to artificial ones derived from the process of urbanisation and metropolitan growth. The objective of this paper is to define a model to characterise landscape types and units that explains the landscape dynamics (1910-2015) in Mediterranean coastal spaces at local scale, taking as study area the municipality and surroundings of Castelló de la Plana, in Spain. The aim is to identify the way in which society has appropriated and occupied this space. This research seeks to analyse landscape metrics that link dynamics in both space and time to provide a comprehensive image of landscape dynamics. The methodological procedure is based on the diachronic study of the landscape to discern a pattern of change in the cultural landscape over time and space that allows us to explain the current situation of the landscape and its relationship with urbanisation and urban planning.
Highlights
The peri-urban areas of the western Mediterranean coastal strip have undergone a major transformation caused by an historical and intense human occupation, with processes such as urbanisation, infrastructure development and land abandonment (García-Martín & Ros-Sempere 2016; Smiraglia et al 2015)
The present territorial configuration is a combination that ranges from landscapes with a marked agrarian character to the recent urban and peri-urban process derived from urbanisation, metropolitan growth and outsourcing of economy
The available data has been processed through geographic information systems (GIS) and a type of geospatial modelling LUCC, landscape types remain the base information
Summary
The peri-urban areas of the western Mediterranean coastal strip have undergone a major transformation caused by an historical and intense human occupation, with processes such as urbanisation, infrastructure development and land abandonment (García-Martín & Ros-Sempere 2016; Smiraglia et al 2015). The result has been a transformation of the landscape, expressed in different cultural landscape configurations over time (Marcucci 2000). Such transformations are deemed cultural, as they are a consequence of the interaction between the natural environment and the society inhabiting it in each historical period (Tieskens et al 2017). The present territorial configuration is a combination that ranges from landscapes with a marked agrarian character (linked to the historical weight of the primary sector) to the recent urban and peri-urban process derived from urbanisation, metropolitan growth and outsourcing of economy
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