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Long-Term Changes in the Configuration of Agriculture and Natural Areas Around Cities in the Netherlands (1900–1990)

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Cities’ influence on the spatial configuration of land in their proximity has presumably changed during the last century as agriculture, cities, and transportation evolved. Investigation of these changes has been limited due to the limited availability of historical maps in digital form. In this chapter, we employ a set of digitized historical land-cover maps in order to compare the spatial distribution of cropland, pasture, and nature surrounding cities in the Netherlands for three time periods: 1900, 1960 and 1990. Our findings suggest that the land cover around cities was relatively stable during these time periods. However, we discovered that, near the perimeter of cities, in 1900, we could discern a clear trend of higher fractions of cropland. These tendencies weakened by the middle of the century and almost completely ceased by 1990.

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Acknowledgements

Erez Hatna acknowledges support from Joshua M. Epstein’s NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, number DP1OD003874 from the National Institutes of Health.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences (CAM), Johns Hopkins University, 5801 Smith Avenue, Davis Building – Suite 3220, Baltimore, MD, 21209, USA

    Erez Hatna

  2. Land Use Planning Group, Department of Environmental Science, Wageningen University, 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Martha M. Bakker

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Correspondence to Erez Hatna .

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  1. Geography and Environmental Studies and The Golan Research Institute, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Dan Malkinson

  2. Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Danny Czamanski

  3. Department of Geography Human Environment, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Itzhak Benenson

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Hatna, E., Bakker, M.M. (2013). Long-Term Changes in the Configuration of Agriculture and Natural Areas Around Cities in the Netherlands (1900–1990). In: Malkinson, D., Czamanski, D., Benenson, I. (eds) Modeling of Land-Use and Ecological Dynamics. Cities and Nature. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40199-2_3

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