Overview
- Comprehensively reviews dramatic land-use change across Eastern Europe
- Covers environmental consequences of the collapse of socialist governance
- Presents scientific studies on effects of the collapse of socialism
- Highlights the importance of understanding socioeconomic shocks
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
Contributing authors cover topics such as the carbon cycle and the environment, effects of institutional changes on urban centers and agriculture, as well as changes in wildlife populations. The volume includes analysis of the drivers of agricultural land abandonment, forest changes in Black Sea region, an extreme drought event of 2010, impacts of fires on air quality and other land-cover/land-use issues in Eastern Europe. Satellite data used were mostly from optical sensors including night lights observations, with both coarse and medium spatial resolution.
Ultimately, this work highlights the importance of understanding socioeconomic shocks: that is, those brief periods during which societies change rapidly resulting in significant impact on land use and the environment. Thus it shows that change is often abrupt rather than gradual and thereby much harder to predict.
This book is a truly international and interdisciplinary effort, written by a team of scientists from the USA, Europe, and Russia. It will be of interest to a broad range of scientists at all levels within natural and social sciences, including those studying recent and ongoing changes in Europe. In particular, it will appeal to geographers, environmental scientists, remote sensing specialists, social scientists and agricultural scientists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
Editors: Garik Gutman, Volker Radeloff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42638-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42636-5Published: 23 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82624-0Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42638-9Published: 14 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 65 illustrations in colour
Topics: Earth System Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Agriculture