Browsing by Subject "Etelä-Savo"
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(2022)Multi-local living is a complex social phenomenon that is tightly connected to human mobility. In previous research, the phenomenon has been mainly researched with official statistics that fail to capture the dynamic nature of people’s mobilities and dwelling. This thesis approaches multi-locality in Finland and in the county South Savo from the perspective of second homes with novel data sources like mobile phone data and electricity consumption data. These spatially and temporally accurate big data sources can be used to ensure sufficient coverage of population and geographic area. I approach multi-local living by analyzing the spatiotemporal changes in people’s presence with mobile phone data, and by examining how the changes relate to second homes in different areas separately for workdays and weekends. This is examined both for the whole country and by comparing different counties. In the thesis, mobile phone data is utilized as the ground truth to assess the performance of household occupancy detection methods for electricity consumption, and to examine how electricity consumption data captures the spatiotemporal dynamics of second home users in South Savo. The results indicate that people are generally more mobile during the summer, and the seasonal growth in people’s presence correlates strongly with second homes. This shows a prominent seasonal effect for multi-local living in Finland. Additionally, it is shown that the results vary spatially as there is variation in the results both between counties and within South Savo. The best performing second home occupancy detection method is revealed by correlation analyses between mobile phone data and electricity consumption data. Moreover, it is shown that electricity data correlates better with mobile phone data during the summer, and that the data captures the monthly dynamics of second home users well. This further highlights the seasonal effect of multi-local living. The thesis provides valuable insight into how the seasonal variation of population in different areas is connected to multi-local living in Finland. Furthermore, it is shown that novel data sources can capture the changes in people’s presence at multiple spatial levels with high temporal accuracy, and that they can be utilized to study multi-local living.
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(2020)The aim of this study was to make a quantitative map inventory of the amount of temporal and spatial changes in meadow area in Finland during 1925-1992 and to make an estimation of the total amount of meadows in Finland in 1980’s and in the beginning of 1990’s. The environmental factors were also evaluated in the same areas. Initially this reseach was a part of FIBRE program. In the temporal study the area values of meadows and environmental factors were studied in three time steps: in 1930’s, 1960’s and 1980’s The oldest data from 1930’s were collected from black and white parish maps 1:20 000 and the two younger phases from base maps 1:20 000. The study area of the temporal change study was 7 500 km² and the mean areal coverage was 4,4% of the 11 studied provincial areas. North Karelia, Kainuu and Lappland were not included in this temporal change study as there were not available the oldest parish maps in these areas. The studied areas were Uusimaa, Lounais-Suomi, Häme, Pirkanmaa, Etelä-Savo, Pohjois-Savo, Keski-Suomi, Länsi-Suomi, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa and Åland. In the larger sample study of the meadow area in 1980’s in Finland the aim was to get an estimate of the total meadow area in Finland that time and also search for the differencies between different areas – which areas still contain most meadow hectares and which is the proportion between meadow hectares and studied surface area or proportion between the land area and meadow area or the relation between acricultural field hectares to meadow hectare amount. This larger study contained 14 provincial areas and the study area was 26 000 km² and the mean study coverage was 12 %. In the study 315 base maps 1.20 000 were inventoried – the meadows were counted hectare by hectare from the maps. The results showed that the largest changes in meadow area hectares took place already between 1930 and 1960. The biggest proportional declines were in the areas were the initial hectare amounts were highest at the start. A significant result was that the total area of meadows in Finland was not so low as estimations have given reason to expect. In this large study many areas had still left a third of the 1930 meadow hectares, in the best areas even 40% in the 1980’s and in the beginning of 1990’s. Although also in this study there were places were 99% of the original hectares of meadows were all vanished – from the hundreds of hectares were left only 2-10 hectares. Of the studied areas the most rich in meadows was Åland throughout all the three studied time steps. Other meadow high areas were Lounais-Suomi, Pirkanmaa and Keski-Suomi in the 1930’s, Pirkanmaa, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa and Häme in the 1960’s and Länsi-Suomi, Uusimaa and Lounais-Suomi. For the total amount of meadow hectares in Finland this study gives estimates: 680 000 – 980 000 hectares in the 1930’s, 330 000 – 475 000 hectares in the 1960’s and 275 000 hectares in the 1980’s.
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