Transformations in the Agricultural and Scenic Landscapes in the Northwest of the Region of Murcia (Spain): Moving towards Long Awaited (Un)Sustainability

García-Marín, Ramón; Espejo Marín, Cayetano; Giménez García, Rubén; Ruiz-Álvarez, Víctor

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Transformations in the Agricultural and Scenic Landscapes in the Northwest of the Region of Murcia (Spain): Moving towards Long Awaited (Un)Sustainability

dc.contributor.author	García-Marín, Ramón
dc.contributor.author	Espejo Marín, Cayetano
dc.contributor.author	Giménez García, Rubén
dc.contributor.author	Ruiz-Álvarez, Víctor
dc.contributor.department	Geografía
dc.coverage.spatial	Noroeste de la Región de Murcia	es
dc.coverage.temporal	Siglo XXI	es
dc.date.accessioned	2024-02-02T11:21:53Z
dc.date.available	2024-02-02T11:21:53Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description	©<2020>. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This document is the Published Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in [Land]. To access the final edited and published work see [https://doi.org/10.3390/land9090314]	es
dc.description.abstract	Since the middle of the 20th century, irrigation in the southeast of Spain has displayed significant productive growth based on the intensive use of the scarce water resources in the area and the contribution of river flows from the hydrographic basin of the Tagus River to the hydrographic basin of the Segura River. Despite high levels of e ciency in the water use from the new irrigation systems, the water deficit has only intensified in recent years. The most dynamically irrigated areas (Campo de Cartagena, Valle del Guadalentín, Vega Alta del Segura and the southern coast of the Region of Murcia), were faced with a complex and trying future, resulting in numerous companies (agribusinesses) relocating to lease and acquire land in the northwest of Murcia to develop their intensive crops. The general objective of this article lies in the analysis of widespread landscape dynamics, and of agricultural dynamics in particular, in the rural environment of the northwest Region of Murcia (Spain). For this, an exhaustive analysis of the land cover and use transformations is carried out for the periods of time 1990–2000–2012–2018. The data studied come from the Corine Land Cover (CLC) project, carried out by the European Environment Agency (EEA). These spatial data are treated with geographical information systems (GISs) and represented by statistical and cartographic analyses and cross-tabulation matrices that indicate the dynamics of changes, loss and land gain. As the main result, we find that the areas occupied by new intensive irrigation on old rainfed farmland in the northwest Region of Murcia have increased in the last 30 years. Traditional irrigation is disappearing, and the environmental consequences (overexploitation of aquifers and decreased flows from natural sources), among others, are dire.	es
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dc.format.extent	24	es
dc.identifier.citation	Land, 2020, 9, 314
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.3390/land9090314
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 2073-445X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/138541
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Atribución 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Rural landscape	es
dc.subject	Intensive agriculture	es
dc.subject	Landscape transformation	es
dc.subject	Socioeconomic	es
dc.subject	Environmental impacts	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::6 - Ciencias aplicadas::63 - Agricultura. Silvicultura. Zootecnia. Caza. Pesca::631 - Agricultura. Agronomía. Maquinaria agrícola. Suelos. Edafología agrícola	es
dc.title	Transformations in the Agricultural and Scenic Landscapes in the Northwest of the Region of Murcia (Spain): Moving towards Long Awaited (Un)Sustainability	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es