Land use changes in Poland during transformation

Łowicki, Damian

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.06.010

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“…Dominant land cover changes in Eastern and East-Central Europe in the 1985-2000 period were farmland abandonment, afforestation, forest overutilisation and in some areas cropland expansion (Bičík et al 2001;Palang 2006;Kuemmerle et al 2007Kuemmerle et al , 2008Łowicki 2008;Lakes et al 2009;15 Main-Knorn et al 2009;Feranec et al 2010;Hatna and Bakker 2011;Baumann et al 2011), while in Western Europe urbanization, afforestation and in many areas farmland abandonment (Hietel et al 2005;Falcucci et al 2007;Feranec et al 2007Feranec et al , 2010Schneeberger et al 2007a,b;Hersperger et al 2009;Gimmi et al 2011;Monteiro et al 2011). We argue, that any unusual processes (e.g.…”

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“…The effects of the socialist-capitalist transformations are widely studied, documenting 15 major changes in landscape properties (Feranec 2000(Feranec , 2010, particularly in rural landscapes (Palang et al 2006;Łowicki 2008). Feranec et al (2010) detected an average of 2.7 % land cover change in the Eastern-and East-Central European countries, Baumann et al (2011) found that in Ukraine 30 % of farmed land was abandoned after the breakdown of socialism.…”

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Drivers of grassland loss in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation (1987–1999)

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The increase in the speed of land-cover change experienced worldwide is becoming a growing concern. Major socio-economic transitions, such as the breakdown of socialism in Europe, may lead to particularly high rates of landscape transformations. In this paper we examined the loss of semi-natural grasslands in Hungary between 1987 and 1999. We studied the relationship between 9 5 potential driving forces and the fate of grasslands using logistic GLMs.Grassland loss was found to be very high (1.31 % per year), which is far higher than either before or after this period. The most influential predictors of grassland loss were environmental and landscape characteristics (soil type, area of remnant grassland patches), and the socio-economic context (distance to paved road, and nearest settlement, human population density). Several 10 processes and relationships can only be understood from a historical perspective (e.g. large extent of afforestation, strong decrease of soil water table). Grassland loss during the study period emerged as a consequence of survival strategies of individual farmers seeking adaptation to the changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, and not urbanization and agricultural intensification which are the main underlying drivers for the ongoing landscape transformations in 15 most parts of the developed world.Though globalization increasingly influences local land use decisions , reconstructing and modelling recent landscape changes cannot be done without a proper understanding of local history and culture. Our analysis shows the importance of large-area yet high resolution landscape change research, which may reveal unexpected patterns of land cover change, undetected at coarser scales. 20Keywords: East-Central Europe, land-cover change, logistic GLMs, proximate and underlying driving forces LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 28: (5) pp. 789-803. (2013) 3

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Drivers of grassland loss in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation (1987–1999)

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“…This was used to compare changes in the landscape in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico in the United States. To determine the current level of landscape transformation within the municipalities in the region of Wielkopolska in Poland, Łowicki [9] used an index of landscape transformation defined as the ratio of biologically active area where natural processes are dominant to the area where anthropogenic processes were dominant. In both cases, the index makes the comparison of the landscape change level of different areas much easier.…”

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“…Transformations have been analysed in various aspects, scales, and areas on the basis of different source documents analysis. Research comprising whole regions has been carried out [9][10]. Furthermore, metropolitan areas [11][12] as well as geographical regions [13][14] have been studied.…”

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Assessing Change in a High-Value Landscape: Case Study of the Municipality of Sobotka, Poland

Krajewski¹

2017

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…The main changes in Polish land use structure include (Ciołkosz, Poławski 2006;Łowicki 2008;Matyka 2012;Poławski 2009;Potocki 2000; Raport o stanie lasów w Polsce 2011; Szwagrzyk 2004; Urban 2009) urban development and expansion, reduced area of agricultural land and rotation schemes -decrease in the area of arable land, increase in the area of orchards, meadows and pastures, higher forest cover (Fig. 1).…”

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Changes of the land use patterns in Polish and Lithuanian trans-border rural area

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Szczepańska

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The objective of this study was to analyse changes in the land use patterns of agricultural land and forests in Polish and Lithuanian trans-border rural areas. A studied territorial complex comprises two Polish voivodships (Warmia and Mazury, Podlasie) and two Lithuanian counties (Marijampolė and Alytus). The principal research sites were Polish counties (Polish: powiat, the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland) and Lithuanian municipalities (Lithuanian: savivaldybė, the second-level unit of local government and administration in Lithuania), which represent corresponding territorial units in the respective national administrative structures. The analysed dataset covers the period of 2005-2010 and supports the identification of changes in the land use structure of farmland and forests which have taken place since the introduction of political and economic transformations in Poland and Lithuania. The dynamics and direction of changes were compared against different historical and economic backgrounds to assess the prevailing trends in land use profiles in both countries.

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Land use changes in Poland during transformation

Cited by 89 publications

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Drivers of grassland loss in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation (1987–1999)

Drivers of grassland loss in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation (1987–1999)

Assessing Change in a High-Value Landscape: Case Study of the Municipality of Sobotka, Poland

Changes of the land use patterns in Polish and Lithuanian trans-border rural area

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