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 …

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

For more than 100 years, forest cover in Europe has increased substantially due to
afforestation and natural forest expansion. The latter, resulting typically from farmland …

Farmland abandonment restructures rural landscapes in many regions worldwide in
response to gradual industrialization and urbanization. In contrast, the political breakdown in …

Agricultural land abandonment represents one of the most significant processes affecting
today's European landscapes. This process occurs more intensively in the post-socialist …

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 …

We analyzed the causes of cropland abandonment in Argeş County, Romania, after the fall
of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Cropland changes were derived from LandSat classifications for …

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

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 …