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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"land abandonment"”.
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Land consolidation in the context of Lithuanian rural development and revitalization
… of the Soviet regime, started a programme of land reform and today faces problems such as land fragmentation, land abandonment, lack of infrastructure, land conflicts, etc. Such problems affecting sustainable rural development can be solved by applying a land management instrument – land …
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Abbandono del territorio e dissesto idrogeologico in Appennino bolognese: analisi delle dinamiche e degli interventi di gestione idraulico-forestale
The abandonment of less productive fields and agro-forest activities has occured in the last decades, interesting large mountain areas in all mediterranean basin. Until the fifties, agricultural practices dealt mainly with soil surface and surface runoff control systems. However, the apparent …
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War and Agriculture: Three Decades of Agricultural Land Use and Land Cover Change in Iraq
… in governorates containing the southern marshlands followed by decreases related to drought. The second study used Landsat images converted to NDVI to study changes in cultivated area in central Iraq for four periods of conflict, and relates those changes to effects on food security. The …
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People, sheep, and landscape change in colonial Mexico: the sixteenth-century transformation of the Valle del Mezquital
… geographical approaches to studying historical landscape transformations. On one side of this debate, geographer Karl W. Butzer finds in the sixteenth-century Mexican Bajío little evidence for environmental degradation from introduced livestock. On the other, environmental historian Elinor G.K. …
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Evaluating the ecosystem services and disservices provided by Mediterranean woodlands
… as options to restore biodiversity to exploited landscapes. However, the regulating services that forests provide are not limited to the carbon cycle, and the effects of forest growth on water resources will be critical for the long-term success of restoration programmes, particularly in arid …
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Macro to Micro Legacies of Landuse at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory
… (CCZO). The 190km2 CCZO is part of a broader landscape in the southeastern US which was subjected to extensive agricultural degradation for approximately two hundred years before cultivation was abandoned sixty or more years ago. The physical and functional dynamics of land abandonment were …