Connecting human landscape consumption with the water environment Ramon Reimets University of Tartu Estonia a40677@ut.ee Funding: ETF8040
Why? Human consumption of landscape is connected to its’ functions Re-establishment of private property in Estonia – real estate available on market Since the end on the 1990-s, the main object of sales property at naturally “beatiful” locations
Aim & possibilities To find possible connections between landscape indicators and indices of “human pressure” Area/coverage Lenght Capacity/volume
Study area (I)
Study area (II) Otepää parish in souther Estonia
Study area (III)
Processing the data Calculating indices from Estonian Basic Map and CORINE Correlating these indices with the indices of “human pressure”
Results (I)
Results (II)