Estimating Secondary Grassland Disappearance Risk by Overlaying Potential Urbanizing Area Map with Secondary Grassland Potential Area Map:

Case Study in Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture

Abstract

This study aims at finding the places which have secondary grassland disappearance risk by overlaying potential urbanizing area map with secondary grassland potential area map in Haramachi City, Fukushima Prefecture. Two types of the places which have secondary grassland disappearance risk are found as follows. (1) Edge of downtown area. (2) Edge of hills in suburb area. It is also found that GIS is effective for integrating research results from different majors.