Transition of the satoyama landscape in the urban fringe of the Tokyo metropolitan area from 1880 to 2001 |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan;2. iLEAP, Washington, USA;1. LAGEO, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China;2. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 80307, USA;3. School of Forestry & Bio-technology, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, 311300, China;1. Department of Environmental Ecology, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama City, Japan;2. Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama City, Japan;3. Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;4. Research Institute for Forest and Forest Products, Okayama Prefecture, Japan;1. Interdisciplinary Program in the Environment and Resources, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;2. Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;1. Department of Forest Resources & Wildlife Management, National University of Science & Technology, P.O. Box AC 939, Ascot, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe;2. University of Botswana - Okavango Research Institute, Private Bag 285, Maun, Botswana;3. Institute of Studies of Landscape & Human Evolution, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom;4. Shangani Holistic, P.O. Box 24, Shangani, Zimbabwe;5. SIRDC, 1574 Alpes Road, Hatcliffe, Harare, Zimbabwe;6. Midlands State University, Private Bag 9055, Senga Road, Gweru, Zimbabwe;7. E Oppenheimer & Son (Pty) Limited, 6 St Andrew′s Road, Parktown, 2193, South Africa;1. Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Tifton, GA 31794, USA;2. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA 31794, USA;3. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA 31794, USA;1. Laboratoire de Biomathématiques et d’Estimations Forestières, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, 04 BP 1525, Cotonou, Benin;2. Laboratoire d’Ecologie Appliquée, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, 01 BP 526, Cotonou, Benin;3. Ecole de Gestion et de Production Végétale et Semencière, Université Nationale Agriculture, BP 43, Kétou, Benin;4. Laboratoire de Biologie et d’Ecologie Végétales, UFR Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 03 BP 7021, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso;5. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112‐8551, Japan |
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| Abstract: | An explicit understanding of past landscapes is a basic and important issue, which enables deeper understanding of current landscapes in a longer context and gives useful suggestion to today's landscape planning. In this paper, transition of the traditional Japanese agricultural landscape (satoyama landscape) over a relatively long temporal scale (1880–2001), and its inherent dynamics in each of four socioeconomically based time periods in two topographically different areas around the Tokyo metropolitan area was studied. Information derived from historical records and interviews was used to differentiate four socioeconomic periods, and to support and explain the results of the analysis. Old maps and aerial photographs were used to create land use maps, which were analyzed using GIS. The results illustrated drastic landscape change from agricultural to urban landscape, with unique land use and transition patterns in each study area. A large part of both study areas was affected by bi-directional conversion between woodlands and crop fields in the early part of the study period, in the form of shifting agriculture. Our results also showed that the landscapes are becoming less dynamic and it may suggest reconsideration for land use planning, which will lead to more stabilized landscapes. |
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