Peri-urban Areas and Land Use Structure in Romania at LAU2 Level: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis

The smart, sustainable and inclusive growth adopted by Europe 2020 demands new types of information as it is the land use data as an indicator of the land (a primary production factor) - the building block of any economy. Our method is based the article of Salvati & Carlucci (2014) regarding the...

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Published in:Procedia environmental sciences 2016, Vol.32, p.124-137
Main Authors: Lincaru, Cristina, Atanasiu, Draga, Ciucă, Vasilica, Pirciog, Speranţa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
agglomeration
ESDA
FOB exports
land use
peri-urban areas
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Summary:The smart, sustainable and inclusive growth adopted by Europe 2020 demands new types of information as it is the land use data as an indicator of the land (a primary production factor) - the building block of any economy. Our method is based the article of Salvati & Carlucci (2014) regarding the Urban Growth and Land Use Structure, we develop an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis ESDA (Method of Choropleth Maps and LISA, Anselin 2003, 2005) for identification of peri-urban areas in Romania at LAU2 level as lattice data (in Arc Gis, GeoDa) and statistical analysis (in SPSS). The main results of this paper consists in suggesting that the indicator land us changes towards covering with buildings could be used as a synthesis monitoring indicator for the divergent growth effects, allowing the identification of the peri-urban areas, as a result of positive agglomeration process formation based on New Economic Geography theory background. The shapes and locations identified offer a quantitative imagine complementary characterized in a qualitative manner by their higher propensity to be with the highest global competitive performance among the national landscape, in the context of free market main driving force expression.
ISSN:1878-0296
1878-0296
DOI:10.1016/j.proenv.2016.03.017