Nineteenth-century land-use legacies affect contemporary land abandonment in the Carpathians

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/17:73585228

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-016-1097-x" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-016-1097-x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-1097-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10113-016-1097-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Nineteenth-century land-use legacies affect contemporary land abandonment in the Carpathians

Original language description

Historical land use may shape landscapes for centuries into the future, but it remains unclear how much land-use legacies affect contemporary land use. Knowing for how long and how strongly land-use legacies affect agricultural systems is important for contemporary landuse planning and conservation. We assessed the effect of nineteenth-century agricultural legacies for contemporary agricultural abandonment by integrating historic maps and satellite imagery in the Carpathian region. We modeled the choice of agricultural land, and the legacies of Habsburg and Socialist regimes, while controlling for agroecological, accessibility and sociopolitical variation. Farming during the Habsburg era was concentrated in agroecologically suitable areas, but socialist agricultural expansion occurred mostly in less suitable areas, leading to subsequent abandonment. In addition, our results showed that historic land use affected abandonment even 100 years later. Although legacies diminished over time, their effects were amplified when political transformations occurred, likely due to land tenure systems, land owner attitudes, cultural values and differences in land improvement over time. Taken together, land-use legacies and shifts in political systems can constrain current land management and possible future land-use options, suggesting that contemporary land-use decisions can affect future land use for decades and even centuries.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Regional Environmental Change

ISSN

1436-3798

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

000415136200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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