Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl

• Title: Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl

Author: Patrick Hostert, Tobias Kuemmerle, Alexander Prishchepov, Anika Sieber, Eric F Lambin and Volker C Radeloff

Reference: Environmental Research Letters, 6 (4), Oct 2011

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045201

Keywords: coupled human–natural systems, socio-economic disturbance, Chernobyl nuclear disaster, post-socialist land use change, transition economies, Soviet Union

Abstract: Land use change is a principal force and inherent element of global environmental change, threatening biodiversity, natural ecosystems, and their services. Here we explored to what extent socio-economic disturbances can shift land use systems onto a different trajectory, and whether this can result in less intensive land use.

URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/4/045201/refs

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