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| Title of the article | Determinants of the Spatial Distribution of Abandoned Agricultural Lands in the European Part of Russia |
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| Author 1 | Alexander Vladimirovich Prishchepov Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO); Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany;1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1598, USA. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Author 2 | Daniel Muller Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin- Madison This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Author 3 | Maxim Dubinin Biodiversity Conservation and Bioresources Use Laboratory, Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Sciences 33 Leninsky Prospect, Moscow, Russia, 117071 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Author 4 | Mattias Baumann Dipl. Geogr Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1598, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Author 5 | Volker C. Radeloff Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin- Madison 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1598, USA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Abstract | The breakdown of socialism caused massive socio-economic and institutional changes that led to substan-tial agricultural land abandonment. The goal of our study was to identify the determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet Russia during the first decade of transition from a state-controlled economy to a market-driven economy (1990–2000). We analyzed the determinants of agricultural land abandonment for approximately 150 550 km2 of land area in the provinces (oblasts) of Kaluga, Rjazan, Smolensk, Tula and Vladimir in European Russia. Based on the economic assumptions of profit max-imization, we integrated maps of abandoned agricultural land from five 185 km . 185 km Landsat TM/ETM+ footprints with socio-economic, environmental and geographic variables, and we estimated logistic regressions at the pixel level to identify the determinants of agricultural land abandonment. Our results showed that a higher likelihood of agricultural land abandonment was significantly associated with lower average grain yields in the late 1980s and with higher distances from the nearest settlements, municipality centers, and settlements with more than 500 citizens. Hierarchical partitioning showed that the average grain yields in the late 1980s had the greatest power to explain agricultural land abandon-ment in our models, followed by the locational attributes of the agricultural land. We hypothesize that the termination of 90% of state subsidies for agriculture from 1990 to 2000 was an important underlying cause for the decrease of cultivation in economically and environmentally marginal agriculture areas. Thus, whereas the spatial patterns corresponded to the land rent theory of von Thunen, it was primarily the macro- scale driving forces that fostered agricultural abandonment. Our study highlighted the value of spatially explicit statistical models for studying the determinants of land-use and land-cover change in large areas. |
| Code | 332.36 |
| DOI | 10.14530/se.2013.3.030-062 |
| Keywords | ♦ agricultural land abandonment ♦ Institutional change ♦ Land use change ♦ Spatial analysis ♦ Logistic regression ♦ Remote sensing ♦ Russia |
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| For citation | Prishchepov A.V., Muller D., Dubinin M., Baumann M., Radeloff V.C. Determinants of the Spatial Distribution of Abandoned Agricultural Lands in the European Part of Russia. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2013, no. 3, pp. 30-62. DOI: 10.14530/se.2013.3.030-062. (In Russian). |
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