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Title
A Method for Evaluating the Landscape Quality and Potential at a Regional Scale
Subject
Landscape ecology Land use planning Landscape units
Date
2017-07-22T17:15:57Z 2017-07-22T17:15:57Z 1999
Description
A multidisciplinary, long term project aimed at developing and testing assessment and evaluation tools for the ecological management of the landscape is being developed in the University of Évora (Portugal). The main project is divided in three sub-projects (Characterization of the conservation value of the SE Alentejo Region; Identification of the main ecological processes and functions in Évora; and Analysis of the significance of ecological characterization methods in Apostiça). The main objectives to be achieved are to describe the ecological potential of the landscape, and determine the land-use practices and land-use intensities necessary to ensure the maintenance and promotion of the conservation value of landscape, in order to assess the ecological value of a land-use structure and also evaluate the sustainability of alternative land-use patterns. As preliminary conclusions we could say that the evaluation of the stability of a landscape by comparing the degree of correspondence of the nature of both levels of characterization - land-use distribution and homogeneous landscape units - is of particular importance in the evaluation of the fragmentation degree of that landscape, and the real disturbance determined by proposed land-use changes. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
