Land cover changes in Poland in 1990-2012

Michał Mierzwiak
ORCID: 0000-0003-3930-6130

Military University of Technology
Poland

Beata Całka
ORCID: 0000-0002-7147-0849

Military University of Technology
Poland

Abstract

The last 25 years in Poland are characterized by large socio-economic changes, clearly visible in the land cover. The article presents quantitative, qualitative and spatial characteristics of land cover changes in Poland in the years 1990-2012, with special attention paid to the periods 1990-2000, 2000-2006 and 2006-2012. The analyses base on CORINE land Cover data. The main objective of the study was to analyze the urbanization and accompanying land take of agricultural lands and forest for the construction of roads and the spread of built-up areas. The results show that the area of land cover changes was relatively small and it does not exceeded 1% of the country's territory. Since 1990 a systematic increase in anthropogenic areas is observed which is accompanying with afforestation, and decrease of arable lands.

Received: 13.03.2019 Accepted: 25.05.2019 Published 28.06.2019

Keywords:

land cover; CORINE Land Cover; urbanization; deforestation; afforestation; land take

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