Land-use change patterns

Future land use effects on the connectivity of protected area networks in southeastern Spain
Land-use change is a major driver of the global biodiversity crisis, mainly via the fragmentation and loss of natural habitat. Although …
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Land-cover change and human population trends in the greater Serengeti ecosystem from 1984–2003
The growth of human populations around protected areas accelerates land conversion and isolation, negatively impacting biodiversity and …
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Prices, Land Tenure Institutions, and Geography: A Matching Analysis of Farmland Abandonment in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
This paper uses remote sensing data from 1989 to 2000 to examine the impacts of price liberalization, land tenure, and biophysical …
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Using annual time-series of Landsat images to assess the effects of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
The increasing availability of the Landsat image archive and the development of approaches to make full use of these data provide novel …
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Carbon implications of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
The collapse of socialism in 1989 triggered a phase of institutional restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe. Several countries …
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Impacts of surface gold mining on land use systems in Western Ghana
Land use conflicts are becoming increasingly apparent from local to global scales. Surface gold mining is an extreme source of such a …
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Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine
Farmland abandonment restructures rural landscapes in many regions worldwide in response to gradual industrialization and urbanization. …
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Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl
Land use change is a principal force and inherent element of global environmental change, threatening biodiversity, natural ecosystems, …
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Farm Size and Land Use Pattern Changes in Postsocialist Poland
The postsocialist transition resulted in widespread structural change in Polish agriculture, but fine-scale assessments of how these …
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Causes of Cropland Abandonment During the Post-socialist Transition in Southern Romania
We analyzed the causes of cropland abandonment in Argeş County, Romania, after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Cropland changes …
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