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      Effects of urban sprawl on agricultural land: a case study of Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.

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      Environmental monitoring and assessment

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          The main objective of this study is to quantify areal loss of olive groves due to urban sprawl of the city of Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. Spatial changes were analysed by interpreting the digitized data derived from a black-white monoscopic aerial photograph taken in 1985, panchromatic IKONOS image of 2000 and two pan-sharpened Quickbird images of 2004 and 2006. Data obtained revealed that the area of olive groves decreased by 25% from 460.55 ha in 1985 to 344.46 in 2006, while the number of parcels increased from 170 to 445. Of the total areal loss, 60% was due to building constructions, with the rest being due to clear-cut for new residential gardens composed of exotic plants, new buildings, or new roads. Rapid population growth, increased land prices due to urban expansion, and abandonment of agricultural practices to construction of multi-storey buildings were the main causes of the process that transformed the olive groves into urbanized areas. Results pointed to an urgent need to (1) revise the national and municipal land management practices, (2) balance the gap between the short- and long-term economic benefits that urban and community development plans ignore, and (3) monitor land-use changes periodically by using high resolution satellite images.

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          Journal
          Environ Monit Assess
          Environmental monitoring and assessment
          1573-2959
          0167-6369
          Nov 2009
          : 158
          : 1-4
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Forestry, University of Kahramanmaraş, Sutcu Imam, 46100, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. doygun@ksu.edu.tr
          Article
          10.1007/s10661-008-0597-7
          18951136
          7211d3d4-9aaf-4eeb-a989-ce846cf685ef
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