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Analyzing Land-Cover Change Within North West Rural Landscapes, Chantal Cassar
Analyzing Land-Cover Change Within North West Rural Landscapes, Chantal Cassar
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
Landscape change is an issue of concern within the Maltese Islands; records of landscape change go back at least 450 years, and the rate of change has been particularly accelerated in recent decades. Notwithstanding the importance of this phenomenon, there have been few attempts to trace out patterns of landscape change over time. This study seeks to develop an understanding of landscape change within rural landscapes, over a period of 400 years. A qualitative analytical approach was used with a focus on five case study rural settlements in the North West of Malta. Land surveys and historic documentary sources together …