Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region
Agricultural land is a key resource for territorial resilience. In the European context, fertile soils are under pressure not only from urbanisation processes, abandonment and the establishment of non-agricultural uses but also from agriculture that is not well adapted to territorial resources. In o...
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| author | Nerea Morán-Alonso Andrés Viedma-Guiard Marian Simón-Rojo Rafael Córdoba-Hernández |
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| description | Agricultural land is a key resource for territorial resilience. In the European context, fertile soils are under pressure not only from urbanisation processes, abandonment and the establishment of non-agricultural uses but also from agriculture that is not well adapted to territorial resources. In order to inform urban planning, a methodology is proposed and applied to the Madrid region to analyse the suitability of agricultural land uses with respect to agrological quality. The majority of agricultural uses in the region are well adapted to the agroecological quality of the land; larger areas of over-exploited land are located along some of the region’s rivers and in the Campiña, while under-utilised land is mainly found in the south-west and in the metropolitan <i>comarcas</i>. This methodology is based on official and open-access information, so it can be easily replicated and used to inform land planning. We propose three strategies depending on the suitability of land use: the introduction of crops in priority areas for horticulture or arable crops, agricultural protection areas and ecological regeneration areas. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b313c33fddd249019cbdf75b880659442025-01-24T13:38:02ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2025-01-0114113410.3390/land14010134Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid RegionNerea Morán-Alonso0Andrés Viedma-Guiard1Marian Simón-Rojo2Rafael Córdoba-Hernández3Grupo de Investigación en Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Sostenibilidad (GIAU+S), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainGrupo de Investigación en Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Sostenibilidad (GIAU+S), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainGrupo de Investigación en Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Sostenibilidad (GIAU+S), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainGrupo de Investigación en Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Sostenibilidad (GIAU+S), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainAgricultural land is a key resource for territorial resilience. In the European context, fertile soils are under pressure not only from urbanisation processes, abandonment and the establishment of non-agricultural uses but also from agriculture that is not well adapted to territorial resources. In order to inform urban planning, a methodology is proposed and applied to the Madrid region to analyse the suitability of agricultural land uses with respect to agrological quality. The majority of agricultural uses in the region are well adapted to the agroecological quality of the land; larger areas of over-exploited land are located along some of the region’s rivers and in the Campiña, while under-utilised land is mainly found in the south-west and in the metropolitan <i>comarcas</i>. This methodology is based on official and open-access information, so it can be easily replicated and used to inform land planning. We propose three strategies depending on the suitability of land use: the introduction of crops in priority areas for horticulture or arable crops, agricultural protection areas and ecological regeneration areas.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/134agrological qualityland useagricultural protectionland planning |
| spellingShingle | Nerea Morán-Alonso Andrés Viedma-Guiard Marian Simón-Rojo Rafael Córdoba-Hernández Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region Land agrological quality land use agricultural protection land planning |
| title | Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region |
| title_full | Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region |
| title_short | Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region |
| title_sort | agricultural land suitability analysis for land use planning the case of the madrid region |
| topic | agrological quality land use agricultural protection land planning |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1/134 |
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