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 …

Land cover and use changes, part of the 'global changes', are important for the global
sustainability and resilience through their negative impacts on ecosystem services and …

ABSTRACT Central and Eastern Europe is experiencing significant land degradation, at the
same time as social, economic and political transformation, and within the broader context of …

Romania has a wide range of landforms, land use and land cover categories being
unevenly distribute. However, agricultural land and forest land are prevailing. Important …

In this study, Bucharest, the capital city of Romania was selected as a case study. Based on
time series of Landsat TM imagery and statistical data, an analysis on urban growth from …

Since 1990, a series of fundamental political and socioeconomic transformations in
Romania have led to important structural and functional changes in the land use/cover …

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 overuse of natural resources by humanity in recent decades has resulted in noticeable
changes environment quality. Global environmental research is particularly interested in the …

The analysis of land degradation based on sensitivity models has become a widely used
scientific method for understanding the spatial pattern of this complex environmental …

In the last two decades, socio-economic changes in Europe have had a significant effect on
land cover changes, but it is unclear how this has affected mountain areas. We focus on two …