The abandonment of traditional agricultural landscape in Slovakia - Analysis of extent and driving forces

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-84

  Lieskovský, Juraj ^a,b   Bezák, Peter ^a   Špulerová, Jana ^c   Lieskovský, Tibor ^d   Koleda, Peter ^e   Dobrovodská, Marta ^c   Bürgi, Matthias ^b   Gimmi, Urs ^b  

^a Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^d SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^e Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

CAP; Cultural landscape; Land use change; Post socialist countries

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTIVATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDOWNERSHIP; POST-COMMUNISM; RURAL AREA; RURAL SOCIETY;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84930000799     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.12.007     Document Type: Article

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