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Evolutionary Dynamics in Azorean Landscapes: The Land-Use Changes in Forests and Semi-natural Areas in the Archipelago from 1990 to 2018

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The particular richness and singularity of Azorean Landscapes demand a strong, well-defined, and extensive conservation policy planning. Accordingly, and recognizing the importance of the problem in the enlightenment of the sustainability thought, those planning approaches should be based and sustained by multiple studies and thematic fields to fully comprehend the issue.

Thereby, the present research through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools and methods enables discussing the evolution of Forest and Semi-natural areas in the Azores Islands in the last three decades. Contextually, this investigation allows us to confirm that the land uses related to Forests and Semi-natural Areas experienced multiple changes – increasing and decreasing periods. For example, some of those reducing dynamics are concerning and should have a closer monitorization by the territorial government actors to provide protection preservation and conservation to these incomparable Ultra-peripheral Landscapes, Environments, and Ecosystems.

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This paper is financed by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., project number UIDB/ECO/00685/2020 and also by the project GREAsT - Genuine Rural Experiences in the Azores Tourism with the code: ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-000089.

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  1. School of Business and Economics and CEEAplA, University of Azores, 9500-321, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

    Rui Alexandre Castanho, Pedro Pimentel & Maria da Graça Batista

  2. Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, 41-300, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland

    Rui Alexandre Castanho & Gualter Couto

  3. CITUR - Madeira - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, 9000-082, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal

    Rui Alexandre Castanho & José Manuel Naranjo Gómez

  4. VALORIZA - Research Centre for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), 7300, Portalegre, Portugal

    Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez & Luís Loures

  5. Agricultural School, University of Extremadura, 06007, Badajoz, Spain

    José Manuel Naranjo Gómez

  6. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences and CEEAplA, University of Azores, 9500-321, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

    Célia Carvalho

  7. Faculty of Sciences and Technologies and CEEAplA, University of Azores, 9500-321, Ponta Delgada, Portugal

    Áurea Sousa

  8. CinTurs—Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, University of Algarve, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Luís Loures

  9. CINEICC -Cognitive and Behavioural Centre for Research and Intervention Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Célia Carvalho

  10. Institute for Genomic Health - Department of Psychiatry/College of Medicine SUNY Downstate , Brooklyn, N.Y, USA

    Célia Carvalho

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  1. ISEG, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Gintautas Dzemyda

  4. DCT, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Moreira

  5. Department of Information Sciences, University of Sheffield, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Maria Ramalho Correia

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Castanho, R.A. et al. (2021). Evolutionary Dynamics in Azorean Landscapes: The Land-Use Changes in Forests and Semi-natural Areas in the Archipelago from 1990 to 2018. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Ramalho Correia, A.M. (eds) Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies . WorldCIST 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1366. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72651-5_24

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