A diachronic analysis of a changing landscape on the Duero river borderlands of Spain and Portugal combining remote sensing and ethnographic approaches
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2021Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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Artículo / Artikulua
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Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
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10.3390/su132413962
Resumen
The Arribes del Duero region spans the border of both Spain and Portugal along the Duero
River. On both sides of the border, the region boasts unique human‐influenced ecosystems. The
borderland landscape is dotted with numerous villages that have a history of maintaining and managing
an agrosilvopastoral use of the land. Unfortunately, the region in recent decades has suffered
from massive ou ...
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The Arribes del Duero region spans the border of both Spain and Portugal along the Duero
River. On both sides of the border, the region boasts unique human‐influenced ecosystems. The
borderland landscape is dotted with numerous villages that have a history of maintaining and managing
an agrosilvopastoral use of the land. Unfortunately, the region in recent decades has suffered
from massive outmigration, resulting in significant rural abandonment. Consequently, the oncemaintained
landscape is evolving into a more homogenous vegetative one, resulting in a greater
propensity for wildfires. This study utilizes an interdisciplinary, integrated approach of “bottom
up” ethnography and “top down” remote sensing data from Landsat imagery, to characterize and
document the diachronic vegetative changes on the landscape, as they are perceived by stakeholders
and satellite spectral analysis. In both countries, stakeholders perceived the current changes and
threats facing the landscape. Remote sensing analysis revealed an increase in forest cover throughout
the region, and more advanced, drastic change on the Spanish side of the study area marked by
wildfire and a rapidly declining population. Understanding the evolution and history of this rural
landscape can provide more effective management and its sustainability. [--]
Materias
Rural abandonment,
Temporal land cover change,
Remote sensing,
Ethnographic landscape perceptions
Editor
MDPI
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Sustainability 2021, 13, 13962
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ciencias Humanas y de la Educación /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Giza eta Hezkuntza Zientziak Saila /
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Saila /
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Food Chain - ISFOOD
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Entidades Financiadoras
This research was supported by a doctoral research fellowship from the Universidad Pública
de Navarra with the Institute for Advanced Social Science Research (I‐COMMUNITAS). This
research was partly funded by the Spanish Research Agency, Ministry for Science and Innovation
through projects PID2019‐104297GB‐I00 and PID2019‐107386RB‐I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033,
and by the Department of Economic Development of the Government of Navarre through project
0011‐1365‐2021‐000072.