Agricultural abandonment

Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Socioeconomic shocks can shape future land-use trajectories. Armed conflicts are an extreme form of a socioeconomic shock, but our …
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Mapping Land Management Regimes in Western Ukraine Using Optical and SAR Data
The global demand for agricultural products is surging due to population growth, more meat-based diets, and the increasing role of …
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Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union
Widespread changes of agricultural land use occurred in Eastern Europe since the collapse of socialism and the European Union’s …
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Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data
The demand for agricultural products continues to grow rapidly, but further agricultural expansion entails substantial environmental …
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Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
Widespread cropland abandonment occurred after the collapse of socialism across the former Soviet Union, but the rates and spatial …
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Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe
Institutional settings play a key role in shaping land cover and land use. Our goal was to understand the effects of institutional …
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Mapping abandoned agriculture with multi-temporal MODIS satellite data
Agriculture is expanding and intensifying in many areas of the world, but abandoned agriculture is also becoming more widespread. …
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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 the Landsat record to detect forest-cover changes during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the temperate zone of European Russia
The political breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides a rare case of drastic changes in social and economic conditions, and as …
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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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