Land Use Change and Externalities in Poland's Metropolitan Areas: Application of Neighborhood Coefficients

摘要

Interdependence between spatial interactions and land use change generates various external effects. These, economic, social, cultural and environmental externalities may in turn have an impact on land use dynamics. The perception of such phenomena is related to the level of their acceptance which can be measured in psychological categories of comfort and discomfort. In this paper an attempt is made to compare the dynamics of land use with changes in the intensity of spatial interactions, using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) - especially map algebra (MA), cellular automata (CA), and the population potential model. According to the main hypothesis, interrelations between the observed land use change and the intensity of spatial interactions assume alternative forms, these giving rise to specific kinds of externalities. Results of the research project: "Spatial interactions and external effects of land use changes in metropolitan areas in Poland", granted by Polish National Science Centre (UMO-2011/01/B/HS4/05194), carried on at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences.