Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-12

  Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Müller, Daniel ^a,b   Griffiths, Patrick ^a   Rusu, Marioara ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Cropland abandonment; Forest cover change; Post socialist transition; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349193224     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-008-0050-z     Document Type: Article

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