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 …

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 …

The present study proposes an original framework to investigate landscape transformations
in economically-dynamic regions based on the spatial analysis of unchanged land-use …

The marginalization of mountain regions in Mediterranean Europe since the mid-20th
Century has triggered important socioeconomic and environmental changes that are putting …

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 change processes present a variety of trajectories depending on local conditions,
the regional context and external influences. This study is an in-depth analysis of spatial and …

This paper presents a landscape analysis of land cover change in the Municipality of Rome
from 1954 to 2001. The overall objective of the analysis is to characterise the temporal and …

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 …

Please click here to download the map associated with this article. The aim of this study is to
produce a long term analysis of land cover change in Sinaia (Romanian Southern …

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 …