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 …

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 …

Assessing the relentless expansion of built-up areas is one of the most important tasks for
achieving sustainable planning and supporting decision-making on the regional and local …

Land cover change represents one of the most significant global transformations, which has
profound impacts on ecosystems, biological diversity, and the ongoing climate crisis. In this …

Identification, analysis and assessment of changes in the urbanised landscape, one of the
most conspicuous transforming parts of earth surfaces, has become the topic of numerous …

Land use and land cover change (LULCC) dynamics have been particularly strong in the
Mediterranean region, due to its historical development and to agro-pedoclimatic conditions …

Land use and cover changes (LUCC) have been identified as one of the main causes of
biodiversity loss and deforestation in the world. Fundamentally, the urban land use has …

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 …

This paper addresses two important issues for large Mediterranean city regions: the
differential impact of compact urban 'growth'and low-density 'sprawl'on land cover changes …

There are both semantic and technical differences between land use (LU) and land cover
(LC) measurements. In cartographic approaches, these differences are often neglected …