Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania

Müller, Daniel; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Rusu, Marioara; Griffiths, Patrick

doi:10.1080/17474230802645881

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“…Consistent with other studies of land use transition, our place-based, historical analysis demonstrates that biophysical factors, such as topography and market cost-distance, influence land use practices and timing of land abandonment [10,11,[59][60][61][62]. But, critically, this relationship is not identical among all farmers.…”

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Historical Land Use Dynamics in the Highly Degraded Landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory

Coughlan

Nelson

Lonneman

et al. 2017

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Processes of land degradation and regeneration display fine scale heterogeneity often intimately linked with land use. Yet, examinations of the relationships between land use and land degradation often lack the resolution necessary to understand how local institutions differentially modulate feedback between individual farmers and the spatially heterogeneous effects of land use on soils. In this paper, we examine an historical example of a transition from agriculture to forest dominated land use (c. 1933-1941) in a highly degraded landscape on the Piedmont of South Carolina. Our landscape-scale approach examines land use and tenure at the level that individuals enact management decisions. We used logistic regression techniques to examine associations between land use, land tenure, topography, and market cost-distance. Our findings suggest that farmer responses to changing market and policy conditions were influenced by topographic characteristics associated with productivity and long-term viability of agricultural land use. Further, although local environmental feedbacks help to explain spatial patterning of land use, property regime and land tenure arrangements also significantly constrained the ability of farmers to adapt to changing socioeconomic and environmental conditions.

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confidence: 56%

Historical Land Use Dynamics in the Highly Degraded Landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory

Coughlan

Nelson

Lonneman

et al. 2017

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“…Fine-scale data gathered via participatory mapping and household surveys have considerable potential to understand land systems, because such data are collected at the scale where land use decisions are made (Liu et al 2003;Müller et al 2009;Reenberg 2001). Linking land cover information and socio-economic data is not easy because the latter rarely exists as spatial layers (Liverman et al 1998;Veldkamp and Lambin 2001).…”

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Impacts of Surface Gold Mining on Land Use Systems in Western Ghana

Schueler

Kuemmerle

Schröder

2011

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Land use conflicts are becoming increasingly apparent from local to global scales. Surface gold mining is an extreme source of such a conflict, but mining impacts on local livelihoods often remain unclear. Our goal here was to assess land cover change due to gold surface mining in Western Ghana, one of the world's leading gold mining regions, and to study how these changes affected land use systems. We used Landsat satellite images from 1986-2002 to map land cover change and field interviews with farmers to understand the livelihood implications of mining-related land cover change. Our results showed that surface mining resulted in deforestation (58%), a substantial loss of farmland (45%) within mining concessions, and widespread spill-over effects as relocated farmers expand farmland into forests. This points to rapidly eroding livelihood foundations, suggesting that the environmental and social costs of Ghana's gold boom may be much higher than previously thought.

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“…Many studies have confirmed its strong effect on land cover structure and its changes, such as farmland abandonment (Mottet et al, 2006;Müller and Munroe 2008;Müller et al, 2009;Prishchepov et al, 2013;Wu and Zhang, 2012). Löw stated that the maximum commuting distance from village to fields, established in Czech lands from the 13 th century until the introduction of mechanization, was 1.2 km (Löw, Míchal, 2003).…”

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Influences of Environmental Drivers on Land Cover Structure and its Long-Term Changes: a Case Study of the Villages of Malachov and Podkonice in Slovakia / Vliv Environmentálních Podmínek Na Strukturu Krajinného Pokryvu A Její Dlouhodobé Změny: Případová Studie Obcí Malachov A Podkonice Na Slovensku

Druga

Falťan

2014

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The influence of environmental drivers on long-term land cover changes in two mountainous villages in Central Slovakia is assessed in this paper using generalized linear models (GLM ShrnutíVliv environmentálních podmínek na strukturu krajinného pokryvu a její dlouhodobé změny: případová studie obcí Malachov a Podkonice na Slovensku Předkládaná studie hodnotí vliv environmentálních podmínek na dlouhodobé změny krajinného pokryvu ve dvou horských obcích na středním Slovensku, a to s využitím krabicových grafů, jednoduché logistické regrese a generalizovaných lineárních modelů (GLM). S využitím klasifikace CORINE Land Cover je analyzován

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Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania

Cited by 138 publications

References 46 publications

Historical Land Use Dynamics in the Highly Degraded Landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory

Historical Land Use Dynamics in the Highly Degraded Landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory

Impacts of Surface Gold Mining on Land Use Systems in Western Ghana

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