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 global demand for agricultural products is surging due to population growth, more meat-
based diets, and the increasing role of bioenergy. Three strategies can increase agricultural …

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 …

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 …

The tendencies of the land fund change during the last years are considered. An analysis of
a number of normative documents was made to highlight the main problems in modern land …

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 …

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

This research project, carried out in the framework of the INTAS/VEGETATION Programmes
at the Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, aims to assess and to map land use …

Geographic information systems and satellite remote sensing information are emerging
technologies in land-cover change assessment. They now provide an opportunity to gain …

In this chapter, we use change analysis at three spatial resolutions (8 km, 500 m, and 30 m)
to investigate land changes in European Russia occurring between 1982 and 2011. We first …