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Unplanned urbanization and encroachment on agricultural land in the eastern side of the city of Médéa (2018).

Unplanned urbanization and encroachment on agricultural land in the eastern side of the city of Médéa (2018).

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Fig. 1. Physical environment of the north-central region in Algeria....
Fig. 2. Location and altitude classes. Source: Plan directeur...
Fig. 6. Landslides in Médéa (2018).
Fig. 7. Unplanned urbanization and encroachment on agricultural land in...
+2 Fig. 9. Means Used for the Pre-Collection at the Household Level.
Urban Development in the Cities of Tell Atlas Mountains Region in Northern Algeria: Médéa as a Model
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  • Jul 2020
Most of the mountain population in the developing world lives in urban areas and cities, mainly driven by three factors: increased population, higher incomes and lower transport costs. An urban policy for mountainous areas in Algeria is necessary to achieve sustainable development to reduce spatial disparities at the local, regional and national...
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... infrastructure, services and economic activities in the Atlas Mountains in the north part of Algeria, every year. Our study indicated that the most densely settled and rapidly growing urban centres of the Atlas Mountains have fast intruded into productive agricultural land in their surrounding rural areas, and this has already happened in Médéa (Fig. 7). This has caused a huge transformation of cultivated land within urban centres as well as in their peri-urban zones leading to land use intensification. Rural areas surrounding these urban centres have lost their prime agricultural land due to the expansion of urban land use in the urban fringe during the last 20 years. Overall, the ...
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... infrastructure, services and economic activities in the Atlas Mountains in the north part of Algeria, every year. Our study indicated that the most densely settled and rapidly growing urban centres of the Atlas Mountains have fast intruded into productive agricultural land in their surrounding rural areas, and this has already happened in Médéa (Fig. 7). This has caused a huge transformation of cultivated land within urban centres as well as in their peri-urban zones leading to land use intensification. Rural areas surrounding these urban centres have lost their prime agricultural land due to the expansion of urban land use in the urban fringe during the last 20 years. Overall, the ...

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