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Historical Evolution of Land Use in São Jorge Island

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This chapter uses a spatial interaction model with land use, able to understand the interaction between the economy and the territory, trying to understand the evolution of land use on the island of São Jorge in the Azores from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The chapter presents the historical data of the island of São Jorge that are most relevant for the analysis, the formulation of the spatial interaction model with land use and the simulations of the model for the various centuries both for the island of São Jorge and for the area of Velas that we wish to analyse in more detail.

This chapter was written with second co-author, Vanda Serpa, Regional Secretary for the Environment and Climate Change, Pico, Azores, Portugal. Email: vandaserpa@gmail.com.

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Silveira, P., Dentinho, T.P. (2024). Historical Evolution of Land Use in São Jorge Island. In: Spatial Interaction Models with Land Use. Contributions to Regional Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55008-9_5

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