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Commentary

Re-Framing the Latent Nexus between Land-Use Change, Urbanization and Demographic Transitions in Advanced Economies

by
Gianluca Egidi
1,
Luca Salvati
2,*,
Andrea Falcone
3,
Giovanni Quaranta
4,
Rosanna Salvia
4,
Renata Vcelakova
5 and
Antonio Giménez-Morera
6
1
Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (DAFNE), Tuscia University, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
2
Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata, I-62100 Macerata, Italy
3
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), I-85050 Tito Scalo, Italy
4
Mathematics, Computer Science and Economics Department, University of Basilicata, I-85100 Potenza, Italy
5
Global Change Research Institute CAS, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
6
Departamento de Economia y Ciencias Sociales, Universitat Politècnica de València, ES-46022 València, Spain
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 533; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020533
Submission received: 16 December 2020 / Revised: 28 December 2020 / Accepted: 4 January 2021 / Published: 8 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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Abstract

The linkage between land-use change and demographic transitions in advanced countries has becoming increasingly complex because of the mutual interplay of environmental and socioeconomic spheres influencing the degree of sustainability of both regional and local developmental processes. The relationship between urbanization and economic development has been relatively well investigated by clarifying the consequent impacts on population dynamics. In the early phases of urbanization and economic development, population grew at a particularly high rate, declining (more or less rapidly) in the subsequent time interval. Improving income and education opportunities in urban settings resulted in further urbanization, leading to progressively lower fertility. At the same time, a more general view on the relationship between land-use change and demographic transition focusing on a broader spectrum of landscape processes (including farmland abandonment and forest expansion) at larger spatial scales (from regional to country and continental scale) is increasingly required. The present study provides an integrated view of the relationship between land-use change, urbanization, and demographic transitions with specific focus on Europe. Considering divergent processes of landscape transformations in a unified socioeconomic view may evidence the intimate linkage with recent population trends in both urban and rural areas.
Keywords: social modernization; landscape transformations; population trends; Europe social modernization; landscape transformations; population trends; Europe

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Egidi, G.; Salvati, L.; Falcone, A.; Quaranta, G.; Salvia, R.; Vcelakova, R.; Giménez-Morera, A. Re-Framing the Latent Nexus between Land-Use Change, Urbanization and Demographic Transitions in Advanced Economies. Sustainability 2021, 13, 533. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020533

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Egidi G, Salvati L, Falcone A, Quaranta G, Salvia R, Vcelakova R, Giménez-Morera A. Re-Framing the Latent Nexus between Land-Use Change, Urbanization and Demographic Transitions in Advanced Economies. Sustainability. 2021; 13(2):533. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020533

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Egidi, Gianluca, Luca Salvati, Andrea Falcone, Giovanni Quaranta, Rosanna Salvia, Renata Vcelakova, and Antonio Giménez-Morera. 2021. "Re-Framing the Latent Nexus between Land-Use Change, Urbanization and Demographic Transitions in Advanced Economies" Sustainability 13, no. 2: 533. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020533

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Egidi, G., Salvati, L., Falcone, A., Quaranta, G., Salvia, R., Vcelakova, R., & Giménez-Morera, A. (2021). Re-Framing the Latent Nexus between Land-Use Change, Urbanization and Demographic Transitions in Advanced Economies. Sustainability, 13(2), 533. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020533

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