Resilience of Terraced Landscapes to Human and Natural Impacts: A GIS-Based Reconstruction of Land Use Evolution in a Mediterranean Mountain Valley

Author:

Le Vot Titouan12,Cohen Marianne23ORCID,Nowak Maciej24ORCID,Passy Paul5,Sumera Franck6

Affiliation:

1. UFR de Geographie, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne 1, 75005 Paris, France

2. Médiations, Science des Lieux Science des Liens, Sorbonne Université, 75006 Paris, France

3. UFR de Géographie et Aménagement, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France

4. Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, 67-712 Poznań, Poland

5. Prodig UMR 8586, GeoTeCa, Université Paris Cité, 75013 Paris, France

6. Centre Camille Julian UMR 7299, Ministry of Culture, Aix-Marseille Université, 13097 Aix-en-Provence, France

Abstract

Terraced historical landscapes have multiple functions in mountain land, limiting erosion, enabling agricultural production and constituting cultural heritage. Currently, they are largely abandoned in Mediterranean regions and facing the ongoing impacts of climate change. Our aim is to reconstruct the evolution of land use on the terraces in order to test the hypothesis of the resilience of these landscapes and their age in recent history (17th–21st century). To achieve this, we used various current and archive spatial datasets and GIS knowledge to detect and map terraces and the changes in land use. We tested this hypothesis in a territory impacted by a recent extreme event, facing the challenge of its reconstruction. Our main outcome showed that the optimal use of the terraces corresponded to the demographic optimum of the mid-19th century, and they were gradually abandoned after the Second World War, with significant differences between Mediterranean and mountain lands. Despite this evolution, the terraces persisted and withstood an extreme event, validating our resilience hypothesis and opening avenues for the revitalization of this territory based on this heritage. These findings are drawing perspectives for the future of terraced landscapes in Mediterranean mountains in the context of climate change.

Funder

Geoteca, Université Paris Cité

Publisher

MDPI AG

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