Agricultural land abandonment and its impacts on landscape features have been a striking
characteristic of many European rural areas over the last decades. Although previous …

Urbanisation patterns in Europe since the 1950s have resulted in a swath of low-density
discontinuous development, commonly called peri-urban areas. These areas are …

Urbanization often results in agricultural expansion but can also lead to farmland
abandonment. However, it remains unclear about the extent, exact timing and determinants …

Expansion of urban areas accompanied by decreasing population density results in
inefficient urban growth from a spatial-ecological perspective. This study examines …

A multi-criteria approach based on descriptive, correlation and multivariate statistics and
mathematical morphology was proposed to investigate long-term morphological changes in …

Urban green infrastructure is considered to be a key element in improving quality of life and
creating an appropriate framework for sustainable cities. The most used quantitative …

Agricultural land abandonment is a policy challenge, especially for areas with unfavorable
conditions for agriculture and remote and mountainous areas. Agricultural abandonment is …

Governing the future growth of the world's megacities towards higher land use efficiency is
important for achieving global sustainability. We have computed statistics of the urban …

Urban sprawl is a significant challenge in urban areas and its negative influence on the
quality of living confronts the scientific community, authorities, and stakeholders in …

In the majority of EU Member States, agricultural land is expected to decrease not only due
to land-use changes in favour of urban expansion and afforestation but also to land …