Recultivation of abandoned agricultural lands in Ukraine: Patterns and drivers

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 70-81

  Smaliychuk, Anatoliy ^a,b   Müller, Daniel ^a,c   Prishchepov, Alexander V ^c,d,e   Levers, Christian ^a   Kruhlov, Ivan ^b   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e Institute of Steppe   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Agricultural expansion; Boosted regression trees; Land use change; MODIS; Post Soviet agricultural abandonment; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; MAP; MODIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

UKRAINE;

EID: 84959876833     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.02.009     Document Type: Article

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