Drivers of forest cover change in Eastern Europe and European Russia, 1985–2012

Land Use Policy

Volumn 59, Issue , 2016, Pages 284-297

  Alix Garcia, Jennifer ^a   Munteanu, Catalina ^a   Zhao, Na ^a   Potapov, Peter V ^b   Prishchepov, Alexander V ^c,d   Radeloff, Volker C ^a   Krylov, Alexander ^b   Bragina, Eugenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

Cross country analysis; Eastern Europe; Forest cover change; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND USE CHANGE; PRIVATIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SOCIALISM;

EASTERN EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84987984547     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.08.014     Document Type: Article

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