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Analyzing Land-Cover Change Within North West Rural Landscapes Chantal Cassar James Madison University James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Masters Theses The Graduate School Fall 2012 Analyzing land-cover change within North West rural landscapes Chantal Cassar James Madison University Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019 Part of the Agriculture Commons Recommended Citation Cassar, Chantal, "Analyzing land-cover change within North West rural landscapes" (2012). Masters Theses. 169. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/169 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the The Graduate School at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Analyzing land-cover change within North West rural landscapes CHANTAL CASSAR M.Sc. in Sustainable Environmental Resources Management & Integrated Science and Technology November 2012 Approved and recommended for acceptance as a dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Resources Management & Integrated Science and Technology. Special committee directing the dissertation work of Chantal Cassar _______________________________________ Dr. L.F. Cassar Date _______________________________________ Dr. E. Conrad Date _______________________________________ Dr. M. Papadakis Date _______________________________________ Academic Unit Head or Designee Date Received by the Graduate School ____________________ Date i Analyzing land-cover change within North West rural landscapes Chantal-Marie Cassar A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Resource Management/ Master of Science in Integrated Science & Technology Dr L.F Cassar, Dr E. Conrad, Dr M. Papadakis November 2012 ii Statement of Authenticity I, the undersigned declare that this dissertation is the result of my own research. Any figures, conclusions and statements contained herein are mine unless otherwise stated. ____________________________ Chantal Cassar November 2012 iii Dedication Page To my grandmother Eunice, who was my first teacher. To my parents whom taught me how to appreciate history and the environment. iv Acknowledgments I would like to express sincere appreciation to my supervisors, Dr L.F Cassar, Dr E. Conrad and Dr. M. Papadakis who worked closely with me throughout the preparation of this work. Their expertise and guidance have been invaluable. I wish to thank Ms M. Camilleri (National Library), Mr O. Farrugia (Malta Tourism Authority) and employees working at the National Archives of Malta for being of great assistance for providing me with in depth information regarding the five case studies. Gratitude is due to departmental employees and experts in the field for offering their time and expertise. Special thank-you goes to my family and Gordon who have supported and encouraged me throughout this journey. v The research work disclosed in this publication is partially funded by the Strategic Educational Pathways Scholarship (Malta). This Scholarship is part-financed by the European Union – European Social Fund (ESF) under Operational Programme II – Cohesion Policy 2007-2013, “Empowering People for More Jobs and a Better Quality Of Life”. Operational Programme II – Cohesion Policy 2007-201 3 Empowering People for More Jobs and a Better Quality of Life Scholarship part-financed by the European Union European Social Fund (ESF) Co-financing rate: 85% EU Funds; 15%National Funds Investing in your future vi Table of Contents Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................... x List of Tables ................................................................................................................. x List of Figures ............................................................................................................... xi Abstract ....................................................................................................................... xiv Chapter 1: Introduction .................................................................................................. 1 1.1. Background to the topic ............................................................................ 2 1.2. Rationale ................................................................................................... 5 1.3. Aim ........................................................................................................... 6 1.4. Objectives ................................................................................................. 6 1.5. Structure of thesis ..................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2: A Rationale for Assessing Landscape Change ............................................. 8 2.1. An Introduction to Landscapes ................................................................. 9 2.2. Cultural and Natural Landscapes ............................................................ 13 2.3. Landscape Dynamics .............................................................................. 15 2.4. Landscape Sensitivity ............................................................................. 16 2.5. Landscape Change .................................................................................. 17 2.6. Methodology for assessing landscape change ........................................ 21 2.6.1. Landscape and Visual Assessment ............................................... 21 2.6.2. Historical Landscape Assessment ................................................. 24 2.6.3. Historical Landscape Character .................................................... 25 2.6.4. Historical Area Assessment .......................................................... 25 2.7. Driving forces of change ........................................................................ 27 2.7.1. Characteristics of driving forces ................................................... 28 2.7.2. Methodologies to study Driving forces ......................................... 29 Chapter 3: An overview of the landscape-an extent of Malta...................................... 33 3.1. Malta’s physical landscape ..................................................................... 34 vii 3.2. Land cover .............................................................................................. 36 3.3. Documentary Sources ............................................................................. 41 3.3.1. 14th century developments ........................................................... 43 3.3.2. 15th century developments ............................................................ 44 3.3.3. 16th century developments ............................................................ 44 3.3.4. 17th century developments ............................................................ 46 3.3.5. 19th century development .............................................................. 46 3.4. The significance of toponomy ................................................................ 47 3.5. Cultivation of crops ................................................................................ 48 3.6. Livestock ................................................................................................. 49 3.7. Water courses .......................................................................................... 49 3.8. Agricultural practices .............................................................................. 50 3.9. Settlement growth ................................................................................... 50 3.10. Policy and legislations ............................................................................ 52 3.10.1. Landscape Conservation and planning strategies ....................... 52 3.10.2. Rural Land Management ............................................................. 53 3.10.3. Issues faced by rural areas ........................................................... 56 3.10.4. Sustaining rural landscape through policy strategies .................. 56 3.10.5. Malta goes rural project-Sustaining Local tourism ..................... 57 Chapter 4: Methodology .............................................................................................. 58 4.1. Data collection ........................................................................................ 59 4.2. Site selection procedure .......................................................................... 60 4.2.1. Mtaћleb ......................................................................................... 61 4.2.2. Gћajn Tuffieћa .............................................................................. 62 4.2.3. Tas-Santi ....................................................................................... 63 4.2.4. Selmun .......................................................................................... 64 4.2.5. Nadur ............................................................................................. 66 viii 4.3. Method of Assessment ............................................................................ 66 4.4. Analyzing Data ....................................................................................... 68 4.5. Limitations of the study .........................................................................
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