Intralandscape differentiation of land use changes: identification of the causes and the forecast in the example Borovsky District (Russia) in the XVII-XXI centuriesтезисы доклада
Дата последнего поиска статьи во внешних источниках: 20 апреля 2016 г.
Аннотация:In general, the originality of modern landscapes is determined by the combined action of natural, positional,and social factors. Originality of the natural landscape defines its potential production capacity. Positional conditions determine settling characteristics and possibilities of an economic use in relation to the centers of socio-economic activity and infrastructure of a different rank. Social factors determine the specialization and intensity of an economic use that are associated with demographic, political, historical and ethnocultural characteristics. When the ratio of these factors changes by force of evolutionary processes or external influences, it changes the land use structure. The aim of the research project RFBR # 14-05-00568 is to set patterns of specialization and dynamics of the land use for the last 300 years for the contrasting historical and geographical regions of European Russia (see other abstracts of the current section). The most detailed reconstruction was obtained for key sites located in Borovsky District of Kaluga region. Based on the detailed map reconstructions of resettlement and land use, a quantitative analysis was done of the dependence of economic use on natural, social and positional factors for five terms: 1620-1760-1850-1940-2014 years. After the beginning of XVII century arable area was increased from 30% to 65% by the end of the XVIII century and was reduced again to 20% at the beginning of the XXI century as a result
of depopulation and agricultural desolation of Nonchernozemic zone. The invariant area of agricultural and forestry use is determined, as well as the region which economic specialization is subject to change.
The resulting regional model allows to predict the structure of land for a specified relation of positional and social factors.