Cambios recientes en el paisaje litoral de la Costa Brava
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In this article, we study the transformation of coastal landscapes of the Costa Brava by
analyzing changes in land use over the past 50 years through the photo interpretation of
contact prints and orthoimages of 3 periods: 1957, 1980 and 2003. The results show
that urbanized areas have expanded significantly mainly at the expense of agricultural
land, while forest areas have remained virtually unchanged, although their spatial location
and structure have been altered. The traditional pattern of compact urban areas has
been affected by the proliferation of housing estates, shopping malls and leisure areas that
have spread throughout the territory with no spatial logic. This phenomenon, together
with the development of communications infrastructures, has led to the ecological fragmentation
of the agroforest mosaic characterizing the former rural landscape. To predict
land use change and determine future scenarios, Markov chains and cellular automata
were applied
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