Changes in land use and urban growth. Case study in the neighboring municipalities of the Commonwealth Metrópoli de Los Altos, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
For territorial strategic planning there is an essential need for territorial diagnostics that reveal the behavior and dynamics of it and to analyze the interrelationships between the vocation of the land use (ability of land use) and its current use. This article analyzes the changes in the land us...
| Autores Principales: | Alvarado-Quiroa, Héctor Obdulio, Araya-Rodríguez, Freddy |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
| Idioma: | Español |
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Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica
2014
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https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/tec_marcha/article/view/1701 https://hdl.handle.net/2238/4197 |
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For territorial strategic planning there is an essential need for territorial diagnostics that reveal the behavior and dynamics of it and to analyze the interrelationships between the vocation of the land use (ability of land use) and its current use. This article analyzes the changes in the land use and urban growth that the territory of the neighboring municipalities of the Metropolis of the Commonwealth of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, has undergone from 1964 to 2010, as an indicator of land use intensity. For this matter, the ability of land use was first established using the methodology from INAB (2000). By determining the usability and contrasting it with the use in the years 1964, 1970, 1982, 1990, 2002 and 2006, it is explained how from the year 1990 to 2006, it begins to show high conflict (intensity) in the land use. This study demonstrates the pressure exerted by urban sprawl on soils with high agricultural potential and on the environment, especially on protected areas and forests due to the lack of a strategic territorial planning, which has caused a spontaneous use of the territory and an uncontrolled urban sprawl with high environmental impact. The study also estimated the trend scenario, in other words, what could happen if things continue behaving like the have so far, resulting in the disappearance of the entire area with high agricultural potential by the year 2039. |
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