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Reference Category Book chapters
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-6594-1_19
Title (Primary) Land use impacts of demographic change - lessons from Eastern German urban regions
Title (Secondary) Use of landscape sciences for the assessment of environmental security
Author Haase, D.; Seppelt, R.; Haase, A.
Publisher Petrosillo, I.; Müller, F.; Jones, K.B.; Zurlini, G.; Krauze, K.; Victorov, S.; Li, B.-L.; Kepner, W.G.
Source Titel NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
Year 2007
Department CLE; SUSOZ
Page From 329
Page To 344
Language englisch
Abstract Demographic change has become a major topic regarding the use and stability of European urban regions. It can be seen as the major driving force responsible for "growth" and "non-growth" or "decline" pathways in urban regions for the coming decades. Growing and shrinking urban regions do exist simultaneously next to each other. The trend towards further urban sprawl and dispersion observed in the 1980s in western Europe and the 1990s in East Central Europe accompanying the transition process are about to be replaced by shrinkage and perforation. This is mainly due to the recent decrease in birth rates, ageing and shifting household structures. This chapter analyses the trends and spatial patterns of the impact of demographic changes in urban regions. In the first part different features of demographic change are presented. In the second part, the paper expands on how demographic change affects urban land use, fabric, housing markets, infrastructure, and greenery. Since eastern Germany has been shrinking substantially since 1990, the paper uses this example to show a case in point embedded into the overall European context.

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Haase, D., Seppelt, R., Haase, A. (2007):
Land use impacts of demographic change - lessons from Eastern German urban regions
In: Petrosillo, I., Müller, F., Jones, K.B., Zurlini, G., Krauze, K., Victorov, S., Li, B.-L., Kepner, W.G. (eds.)
Use of landscape sciences for the assessment of environmental security
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
Springer, Dordrecht, p. 329 - 344 10.1007/978-1-4020-6594-1_19