Forest cover changes and their drivers in the Polish Carpathian Mountains since 1800

Forest cover changes and their drivers in the Polish ...

title:	Forest cover changes and their drivers in the Polish Carpathian Mountains since 1800
author:	Kozak Jacek
editor:	Nagendra Harini, Southworth Jane
Book title:	Reforesting landscapes : linking pattern and process
date of publication:	2010
place of publication : name of publisher:	Dordrecht London New York : Springer Netherlands
pages:	253-273
ISBN:	978-1-4020-9655-6
eISBN:	978-1-4020-9656-3
series:	Landscape Series, ISSN 1572-7742, eISSN 1875-1210; v. 10
DOI:	10.1007/978-1-4020-9656-3_11
notes:	Bibliogr. s. 269-273
language:	English
Book language:	English
abstract in english:	In many developed countries, forest area has been increasing slowly since the nineteenth century, an increase that has been a clear reversal of forest cover trends in the previous period of dominant deforestation, referred to as the "forest transition" (Mather 1992; Mather and Needle 1998). Agricultural land was abandoned or purposefully converted to forests, reflecting the economic and social development of societies, changing population pressures, and national policies attempting to overcome the scarcity of forest products (Mather 1992; Grainger 1995; Mather et al. 1999; Rudel et al. 2005; Chapters 2 and 3).
affiliation:	Wydział Biologii i Nauk o Ziemi : Instytut Geografii i Gospodarki Przestrzennej
type:	chapter
subtype:	academic paper