Delination of response Functions - Plurel

Change in land
use (L3)
Indicator values
for recreation
function (L4)
Structures and activities (L1 and L2)
Change in land use (L3)
Fig. 1: link between land use change and response functions
Step 3: RF Differentiation regarding RUR sub-regions
At this stage further complexity of mutual land and resource use relationships be-tween
urban, peri-urban and rural sub-regions as well as their effects on public goods are introduced.
Approaching a RUR-delineation appears useful to differentiate between urban and
rural areas and their particular production and consumption situation (sink and source)
of commodities and public goods before involving the peri-urban zone.
It can be assumed that the various urban, peri-urban and rural sub-regions will respond
differently on certain degrees of land-use change because of their different framing characteristics.
Most likely particular developments are going to show even contrary directions.
Another aspect related to the introduction of a sub-regional delineation is the
measurement of further figures representing particular sub-regions.
These differences need to be represented by the RF, so that there is a distinct RF for each
RUR sub-region. The aim is to introduce a prototype-like RUR-region representing those
functional relationships.
Recreation
function
Rural
Peri-urban
Urban
Fig. 2: Spatial differentiation of functions
Time, Land use change
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