A process-based land use/land cover change assessment on a mountainous area of Greece during 1945–2009: Signs of socio-economic drivers

F Xystrakis, T Psarras, N Koutsias - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
In the Mediterranean region, natural vegetation has been strongly affected by human
activities for thousands of years. During the last decades, there has been a notable tendency …

Monitoring land use/land cover transformations from 1945 to 2007 in two peri-urban mountainous areas of Athens metropolitan area, Greece

G Mallinis, N Koutsias, M Arianoutsou - Science of the total environment, 2014 - Elsevier
The aims of this study were to map and analyze land use/land cover transitions and
landscape changes in the Parnitha and Penteli mountains, which surround the Athens …

Multi-temporal land use and cover changing analysis: the environmental impact in Mediterranean area

E Brunori, L Salvati, R Mancinelli… - … Development & World …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Human activity shapes the levels of anthropogenic pressure that depend on the land
management method adopted. This has a fundamental role in the transformation of …

Rural districts between urbanization and land abandonment: Undermining long-term changes in Mediterranean landscapes

I Zambon, A Ferrara, R Salvia, EM Mosconi, L Fici… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The present study investigates changes in the rural landscapes of a Mediterranean country
(Greece) over a long time period (1970–2015) encompassing economic expansions and …

Incorporating density in spatiotemporal land use/cover change patterns: The case of Attica, Greece

D Gounaridis, E Symeonakis, I Chorianopoulos… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper looks at the periodic land use/cover (LUC) changes that occurred in Attica,
Greece from 1991 to 2016. During this period, land transformations were mostly related to …

Land changes in Slovakia: Past processes and future directions

R Pazúr, J Bolliger - Applied Geography, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Cropland abandonment in Slovakia: Analysis and comparison of different data sources

J Lieskovský, D Lieskovská - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study compares different nationwide multi-temporal spatial data sources and analyzes
the cropland area, cropland abandonment rates and transformation of cropland to other land …

[HTML][HTML] Land use changes and their catchment-scale environmenta limpact in the Polish Western Carpathians during transition from centrally planned to free-market …

A Bucała-Hrabia - Geographia Polonica, 2018 - rcin.org.pl
Land use and land cover changes (LULC) and their impact on potential soil erosion, road
density as transfer routes of material and water to channels as well as channel level …

Unraveling the 'stable'landscape: A multi-factor analysis of unchanged agricultural and forest land (1987–2007) in a rapidly-expanding urban region

A Ferrara, L Salvati, A Sateriano, M Carlucci, I Gitas… - Urban …, 2016 - Springer
The present study proposes an original framework to investigate landscape transformations
in economically-dynamic regions based on the spatial analysis of unchanged land-use …

Land-cover and land-use change in a Mediterranean landscape: a spatial analysis of driving forces integrating biophysical and human factors

P Serra, X Pons, D Saurí - Applied geography, 2008 - Elsevier
This article develops a spatial analysis applied to examine the main driving forces of land-
cover and land-use (LCLU) change in a Mediterranean region. Three different tools have …