Forest Changes and Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region
The temperate forests in the Black Sea region contain some of the last remaining intact forests between southern Europe and West Asia. The collapse of the Soviet Union brought great political and institutional changes to the region that have already impac
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Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
Garik Gutman Volker Radeloff •
Editors
Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
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Editors Garik Gutman NASA Headquarters Washington, DC USA
ISBN 978-3-319-42636-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42638-9
Volker Radeloff Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology University of Wisconsin Madison, WI USA
ISBN 978-3-319-42638-9
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947198 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 All rights reserved for parts/chapters written by US Government employees 2017, Chapters 1 and 3. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: The border area of Belarus and Russia as depicted in a Landsat satellite image from the summer of 2000. Belarus lays to the west, and this is where agriculture remains active, field boundaries are clearly visible, and many fields appear in white and beige, representing freshly plowed soils, or bright orange, representing young crops. The situation in Belarus is very different from that in Russia, to the east, where almost all agriculture was abandoned: field boundaries are diminished, and many areas appearing in blue-green colors represent early-successional vegetation. Settlements on the Belarussian side include Drybin and Mscislau, on the Russian side Monastyrshchina and Khislavichi. The satellite image was recorded by Landsat 7 ETM+ on June 6th of 2000, and provided by the US Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Preface
The breakup of the Soviet Union and collapse of the socialism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s had major ramifications f
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