Eastern Europe

Differences in forest disturbance among land ownership types in Poland during and after socialism
Forest use can increase substantially during periods of societal change, but it is unclear how harvesting rates differ among different …
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Forest cover change and illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the transition period from 1988 to 2007
Illegal logging is a major environmental and economic problem, and exceeds in some countries the amounts of legally harvested timber. …
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How pollution legacies and land use histories shape post-communist forest cover trends in the Western Carpathians
Forests that encompass the border triangle of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia currently suffer from centuries of inadequate …
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Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism
The drastic socio-economic and political changes that occurred after the breakdown of socialism in Eastern Europe triggered widespread …
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Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania
The transition from command to market-oriented economies drastically affected land ownership and land management in Eastern Europe and …
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Reforestation in Central and Eastern Europe After the Breakdown of Socialism
The transition in Eastern Europe from command-driven to market-oriented economies brought about a sudden decline in agricultural …
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Using image texture to map farmland field size: a case study in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe provides unique opportunities to study changes in land use patterns, because much farmland became parcelized in the …
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Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians
Agricultural areas are declining in many areas of the world, often because socio-economic and political changes make agriculture less …
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Post-socialist land use change in the Carpathians
Broad-scale political and socio-economic conditions are powerful determinants of land use change. Yet, their relative importance is …
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Post-socialist forest disturbance in the Carpathian border region of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine
Forests provide important ecosystem services, and protected areas around the world are intended to reduce human disturbance on forests. …
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