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

Garik Gutman, Volker Radeloff (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2017
VIII, 247 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-42638-9 (ISBN)

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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 rapid and unprecedented changes such as widespread agricultural abandonment. Changes in the countries of the former Soviet block, former Soviet Union republics, and European Russia are compared and contrasted.

Contributing authors cover topics such as the carbon cycle and the environment, effects of institutional changes on urban centers and agriculture, as well as changes in wildlife populations. The volume includes analysis of the drivers of agricultural land abandonment, forest changes in Black Sea region, an extreme drought event of 2010, impacts of fires on air quality and other land-cover/land-use issues in Eastern Europe. Satellite data used were mostly from optical sensors including night lights observations, with both coarse and medium spatial resolution.

Ultimately, this work highlights the importance of understanding socioeconomic shocks: that is, those brief periods during which societies change rapidly resulting in significant impact on land use and the environment. Thus it shows that change is often abrupt rather than gradual and thereby much harder to predict.

This book is a truly international and interdisciplinary effort, written by a team of scientists from the USA, Europe, and Russia. It will be of interest to a broad range of scientists at all levels within natural and social sciences, including those studying recent and ongoing changes in Europe. In particular, it will appeal to geographers, environmental scientists, remote sensing specialists, social scientists and agricultural scientists.

IntroductionOverview of changes in land use and land cover in Eastern EuropeChanges in urban areas in Eastern Europe according to nighttime light dataLand change in the Carpathian Region before and after major institutional changesUnderlying drivers and spatial determinants of post-Soviet agricultural land abandonment in temperate Eastern EuropeThe effects of institutional changes on landscapes in UkraineForest change and carbon budgets in the Black Sea regionLand management and the impact of the 2010 extreme drought event on the agricultural and ecological systems of European RussiaAgricultural Fires in European Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania and Their Impact on Air Quality, 2002 - 2012Land Change in European Russia: 1982-2011

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 247 p. 84 illus., 65 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik
Schlagworte	Agricultural land abandonment • Breakup of USSR and land use change • Land cover and land use changes • Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning • Remote sensing and land use • Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry • Socio-economic change and land use
ISBN-10	3-319-42638-9 / 3319426389
ISBN-13	978-3-319-42638-9 / 9783319426389

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