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

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 …

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 …

Postsocialist transitions in eastern Europe have focused on the establishment of private
property rights, often to the exclusion of other aspects of rural land-use systems. After the …

The crucial importance of land cover and use changes, components of the 'global changes',
for the worldwide sustainable and resilient development results from their negative influence …

The transition from command to market-oriented economies drastically affected land
ownership and land management in Eastern Europe and resulted in widespread cropland …

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

The aim of this study is to bring a unique overview of past, current and plausible future land
use development in Slovakia. The study assessed land change processes and their spatial …

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 collapse of socialism in 1989 triggered a phase of institutional restructuring in Central
and Eastern Europe. Several countries chose to privatize forests or to return them to pre …