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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 28-164
Full Name: Teresa Vaz
Position: Research Director
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Sex: Female
Address: Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro
Country: PORTUGAL
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Title of the Paper: Portuguese agriculture in the last decade: GIS as an evaluation tool
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Eric de Noronha Vaz , Teresa de Noronha Vaz
Email addresses of all the authors: mtvaz@ualg.pt
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: A common spatial database was born in the mid eighties to assess a real view of the spatial physical environment. This dataset inventory made for the whole Europe was designated as CORINE Land Cover and contains an overall inventory with classifications of artificial areas, agricultural areas, forests and semi-natural areas as well as wetlands. For practical reasons, CORINE has been much used since the upcoming of the second version of the database (CORINE 2000) to assess dynamics of land use changes. In this paper, aiming to better understand the structural change occurred in rural environments, tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been used to observe and track the Portuguese rural areas and find out how they follow the evolution of the agricultural sector and the application of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The proposed comparison between the database CORINE Land cover 90 and CORINE Land cover 2000 allows results for European, nation!
al, regional or local levels. However, our study concentrates on the Portuguese data to evaluate the results of the last decade agricultural policy in the country. The subdivision of agricultural areas into arable land (non-irrigated arable land, permanently irrigated land, rice fields), permanent crops (vineyards, fruit trees and berry plantations, olive groves), pastures, heterogeneous agricultural areas (annual crops associated with permanent crops, complex cultivation, land principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation, agro-forestry areas) is possible and is used to draw a dynamic comparison and access the exact impacts of change. This overview of how the decision making processes resulted in the case of the Portuguese agricultural sector can be disaggregated by sector and region, challenging questions such as: which are the trade-offs of rural activity among the different sectors and regions? How does it cope with small cities? Whic!
h activities / strategies are best adequate for the compromise between
rural and urban dichotomy?
Keywords: GIS tools, CAP evaluation, rural development, Portuguese agriculture
EXTENSION of the file: .doc
Special (Invited) Session: Spatial Databases for Decision Support in Agriculture
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