Widespread changes of agricultural land use occurred in Eastern Europe since the collapse
of socialism and the European Union's eastward expansion, but the rates and patterns of …

Central and Eastern Europe has experienced fundamental land use changes since the
collapse of socialism around 1990. We analyzed the patterns and determinants of …

Humans have altered land cover for centuries, and land-cover change is a main component
of global change. Land use transition trajectories, such as the forest transition theory (ie …

The drastic socio-economic and political changes that occurred after the breakdown of
socialism in Eastern Europe triggered widespread land use change, including cropland …

The article compares and points out differences in driving forces of four main landscape
change processes that shaped post-socialist countries and old democratic countries of …

While agriculture is expanded and intensified in many parts of the world, decreases in land
use intensity and farmland abandonment take place in other parts. Eastern Europe …

The increasing availability of the Landsat image archive and the development of
approaches to make full use of these data provide novel insights into the drivers and …

Institutional settings play a key role in shaping land cover and land use. Our goal was to
understand the effects of institutional changes on agricultural land abandonment in different …

Assessing changes in the extent and management intensity of land use is crucial to
understanding land-system dynamics and their environmental and social outcomes. Yet …

Agricultural areas are declining in many areas of the world, often because socio-economic
and political changes make agriculture less profitable. The transition from centralized to …