Classification of the human occupation of the landscape considering its main important ecological features that can be cultural expressed by land-uses, land-covers, or services like heritage interests, inhabit areas, coastal systems, agriculture, forest, or grassland uses.
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Alternative Tool for an Integrative Landscape Interpretation: Case Study of the Arrábida Maritime Coast, Portugal
Ricardo J. Ribeiro (University of Lisbon, Portugal),
Joana Corte Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal), and François Boucault (École Nationale Supérieure d' Architecture de Nantes, France)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4186-8.ch012
Abstract
This chapter aims to describe an alternative tool developed to represent the interdependence established in the landscape between the human activities and the capacity of natural resources to answer for their needs. Therefore, focused on a case study of the Arrábida Maritime Coast located in Portugal, the research not only allowed to analyze the ecological and cultural landscape components but also to diagnose its resilience to the human activities. In this sense, considering the functional limits of the current cartographic representation models, it was also necessary to set up a new complementary diagrammatic model to show how the landscape interdependences are established. Despite their complex scientific data calculation nature associated with the geoprocessing techniques to connect both representation models, this alternative tool has integrative and intuitive interpretation features, by which it is possible to know the landscape suitability to support new land uses and land covers.