Manifestations and underlying drivers of agricultural land use change in Europe

J Van Vliet, HLF de Groot, P Rietveld… - Landscape and Urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
Agricultural land use in Europe has changed considerably in the last decades. However, our
understanding of agricultural land use changes, especially changes in land use intensity, is …

Assess and prognosticate green house gas emissions from agricultural production of EU countries, by implementing, DEA Window analysis and artificial neural …

G Vlontzos, PM Pardalos - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the most important policy reforms for the European Union (EU) agriculture was the
implementation of the Agenda 2000, which establishes a new framework for subsidies …

Spatial variation in determinants of agricultural land abandonment in Europe

C Levers, M Schneider, AV Prishchepov, S Estel… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Agricultural abandonment is widespread and growing in many regions worldwide, often
because of agricultural intensification on productive lands, conservation policies, or the …

Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine

M Baumann, T Kuemmerle, M Elbakidze, M Ozdogan… - Land use policy, 2011 - Elsevier
Farmland abandonment restructures rural landscapes in many regions worldwide in
response to gradual industrialization and urbanization. In contrast, the political breakdown in …

Map** abandoned farmland in China using time series MODIS NDVI

X Zhu, G **ao, D Zhang, L Guo - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Farmland abandonment is an important aspect of land cover land use (LCLU) that has both
positive and negative effects on the environment. There is limited information regarding the …

Comparing the determinants of cropland abandonment in Albania and Romania using boosted regression trees

D Müller, PJ Leitão, T Sikor - Agricultural systems, 2013 - Elsevier
The collapse of socialist governance structures in Central and Eastern Europe led to the
widespread abandonment of agricultural land. We estimated and compared the …

Sharing or sparing? How should we grow the world's cities?

BB Lin, RA Fuller - Journal of applied ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There has long been a debate amongst conservation biologists about how agricultural land
use should be distributed spatially. Advocates of land sparing argue that high‐intensity food …

Drivers of forest harvesting intensity patterns in Europe

C Levers, PJ Verkerk, D Müller, PH Verburg… - Forest ecology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Forests provide humankind with essential raw materials and the demand for these materials
is increasing. Further expanding forestry into unmanaged forests is environmentally costly …

Combining spatial autocorrelation with machine learning increases prediction accuracy of soil heavy metals

AP Sergeev, AG Buevich, EM Baglaeva, AV Shichkin - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
A hybrid approach was proposed to simulate the spatial distribution of a number of heavy
metals in the surface layer of the soil. The idea of the method is to simulate a nonlinear large …

Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union

P Griffiths, D Müller, T Kuemmerle… - Environmental Research …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Widespread changes of agricultural land use occurred in Eastern Europe since the collapse
of socialism and the European Union's eastward expansion, but the rates and patterns of …