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Taylor & Francis Land-Use Changes and Their Environmental Impact in Rural Areas in Europe 1999 Edition by J. Baudry, I.R. Bowler, R. Kronert, A. Reenberg
Exceptionally important, one-of-a-kind research report and analysis of fundamental aspects and regional issues concerning the development of European rural areas, especially the rapid changes taking place in European agriculture. The book contains fourteen chapters covering land-use and general environmental problems in Portugal, France, UK, Estonia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, including a chapter on changes in natural landscapes and land use following the Chernolbyl accident. Includes bibliographic references and index. Table of contents : - Introduction. Land use and landscape changes - the challenge of comparative analysis of rural areas in Europe. Description and analysis of the natural resource base. Land use, nature conservation and regional policy in Alentejo, Portugal. Rural land use and landscape dynamics - analysis of driving forcesin space and time. Driving factors of land-use diversity and landscape patterns at multiple scales - a case study in Normandy, France. Agricultural land-use and landscape change under the post-productivist transition - examples from the United Kingdom. Changes of rural land use within an agglomeration - Leipzig-Halle as an example. Landscape changes in Estonia - causes, processes and consequences. Land-use change in the agricultural region of Weikopolska, Poland. Land-use/land-cover changes under agricultural impacts and the prospects of ecological agricultural development in the European part of Russia. Ecological-economic problems of land use in the Ukraine. Qualitative changes in natural landscapes and land use following radioactive pollution from the Chernobyl accident. Conclusions. Index.