| Title: |
Toward Sustainable Development Trajectories? Estimating Urban Footprints from High-Resolution Copernicus Layers in Athens, Greece |
| Authors: |
D’Agata, Alessia; Ponza, Daniele; Stroiu, Florin Adrian; Vardopoulos, Ioannis; Rontos, Kostas; Escrivà, Francisco; Chelli, Francesco; Alaimo, Leonardo Salvatore; Salvati, Luca; Nickayin, S.S. |
| Source: |
Land 12 (2023) 8 ; ISSN: 2073-445X |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre): Digital Library |
| Subject Terms: |
Mediterranean Europe; indicators; soil sealing; sustainable urban development; urban planning data mining; urban sprawl |
| Description: |
Land imperviousness reflects settlement growth and urban sprawl. Grounded on a comparative approach, a set of multidimensional statistical techniques were adopted here to quantify the evolution of land imperviousness from Copernicus High-Resolution Layers (HRLs) in a representative case study of Southern Europe (Athens, Greece). A two-way data matrix reporting the percent share of the surface land exposed to different sealing levels (101 classes ranging continuously from 0% to 100%) in the total municipal area was computed for two years (2006 and 2018) individually for 115 municipalities in metropolitan Athens. This matrix represented the information base needed to derive place-specific urban footprints and a comprehensive (global) profile of land imperviousness. Results of a Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) delineated a metropolitan structure still organized along the density gradient, moving from dense settlements in central locations with dominant land classes sealed for more than 90% of their surface area to completely pervious land (0%) typical of rural locations. While the density gradient became less steep between 2006 and 2018, it continued to aliment a socioeconomic polarization in urban and rural districts with distinctive profiles of land imperviousness. Intermediate locations had more mixed imperviousness profiles as a result of urban sprawl. Differential profiles reflect place-specific urban footprints with distinctive land take rates. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Availability: |
https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/toward-sustainable-development-trajectories-estimating-urban-foot |
| Rights: |
Wageningen University & Research |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.1637D10C |
| Database: |
BASE |