Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gutman, Garik (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Radeloff, Volker (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Physical geography.; Remote sensing.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Agriculture.; Landscape ecology.; Earth Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Landscape Ecology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.

This work analyzes the effects of one of the most dramatic changes of entire societies that the world has ever witnessed. It explores the collapse of socialist governance and management systems on land cover and land use in various parts of Eastern Europe. As readers will discover, this involved rap...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Overview of changes in land use and land cover in Eastern Europe
• Changes in urban areas in Eastern Europe according to nighttime light data
• Land change in the Carpathian Region before and after major institutional changes
• Underlying drivers and spatial determinants of post-Soviet agricultural land abandonment in temperate Eastern Europe
• The effects of institutional changes on landscapes in Ukraine
• Forest change and carbon budgets in the Black Sea region
• Land management and the impact of the 2010 extreme drought event on the agricultural and ecological systems of European Russia
• Agricultural Fires in European Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania and Their Impact on Air Quality, 2002-2012
• Land Change in European Russia: 1982-2011.