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European investors and land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Africa
Land & Investments
agriculture
land investments
The article examines the European share in large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims to identify correlation between biofuels policy and large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences of this phenomenon. It first identifies the backgrounds that caused the increased interest in biofuel production and, consequently, African land acquisition in recent years. Then, it examines growth in the number of land transactions that take place on the continent. Finally, the paper investigates the share of European capital in land transactions.
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National Level Land-Use Changes in Functional Urban Areas in Poland, Slovakia, and Czechia

Volume 10 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
urban areas
Land-use and cover change (LUCC) impacts global environmental changes. Therefore, it is crucial to obtain cross-national level LUCC data that represents past and actual LUCC. As urban areas exhibit the most significant dynamics of the changes, accompanied by such processes as urban sprawl, it seems desirable to take into account LUCC information from such areas to acquire national level information. The paper analyses land-use changes (LUCs) in urban areas in Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia.
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Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union

Land Use Policy Volume 99

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Australia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Croatia, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest management plans
land use
research
Forests cover about 40 % of the European Union (EU), providing a wide spectrum of invaluable ecosystem services to more than half a billion people. In order to protect and harness this crucial asset, EU policies are advancing multifunctional management. This study lays a basis for such an effort by mapping the supply of key forest ecosystem services (FES) across the entire EU: wood, water supply, erosion control, pollination, habitat protection, soil formation, climate regulation and recreation.
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Managing protected areas in Central Eastern Europe: Between path-dependence and Europeanisation

Land Use Policy Volume 87

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2019
Poland, Slovakia, United States of America
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
protected areas
research
The nature conservation regimes of post-socialist EU countries are multi-layered, consisting of initial components established before Socialism, reinforced and solidified during Socialist period, and changes brought about by the democratic transition. For nature conservation, the transition to democracy led to new political and legal frameworks, the re-allocation of resources and land tenure changes, which Central Eastern European countries approached differently.
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Impact of Water Level on Species Quantity and Composition Grown from the Soil Seed Bank of the Inland Salt Marsh: An Ex-Situ Experiment

Volume 9 Issue 12

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Australia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
water
The near elimination of inland salt marshes in Central Europe occurred throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and the currently remaining marshes exist in a degraded condition. This work examines the impact of groundwater level on the growth of plants from a seed bank obtained from a degraded salt marsh in proximity to still existing one through an ex-situ experiment. An experimental tank was set up with the sample seed bank experiencing differing levels of water level.
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Characteristics of Soil Parameters of Agricultural Land Use Types, Their Location and Development Forecast

Volume 9 Issue 6

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2020
Finland, United Kingdom, Slovakia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
arable land
development
land use
In this paper we point out the basic soil parameters characterizing current arable land, permanent grassland, vineyards, and orchards in Slovakia. While the area of permanent land use types is more or less stable, there is a noticeable decrease in the area of arable land. In Slovakia, arable land is located mainly on the plain. The value of its production potential is 67 points (the highest quality soil has 100 points). Permanent grassland is found at higher altitudes on slopes, with a higher gravel content, and the value of their production potential is 35 points.
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Contribution of Traditional Farming to Ecosystem Services Provision: Case Studies from Slovakia

Volume 7 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2018
Slovakia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
sustainable land management
agricultural land management
The main aim of this study is to assess the benefits provided by the ecosystems of traditional agricultural landscapes (TAL) and compare them to the outputs of large-scale agriculture. Assessment of ecosystem services (ES) was performed in four case-study areas situated in Slovakia, representing different types of TAL: Viticultural landscape, meadow–pasture landscape, and agricultural landscape with dispersed settlements and mosaics of orchards. The methodological approach was focused on assessment of all the principal types of ES—regulation and maintenance, provisioning, and cultural.
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Potential of brownfields as developing territories in Bratislava

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia, Austria
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land policies
property
land economics
land-use planning
land use
research
land degradation
urban areas
The issue of brownfields and their analysis in Slovakia have not been given such emphasis over the last decade as in the neighbouring EU countries, such as in Austria or in the Czech Republic. The situation is completely different in Bratislava and also in the rest of Slovakia and the development of this type of area is almost unrealized. A frequent argument is problematic ownership relationships to the unused, degraded land. However, the real problem is the higher financial costs associated with brownfields regeneration.
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Economics of AgricultureTransactions with Agricultural Land in 2014 and the impact of land consolidation on land market

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Slovakia
land consolidation
Build database of the Research Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics collecting data on the extent of sale in agricultural land and its average market price in selected districts of Slovakia since 2001 was completed by data of the year 2014. A basis for the database building is formed by the data coming from the real sale and purchase agreements which are registered in the Land Register and were obtained by cooperation with the Research Institute of Geodesy and Cartography.
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The Social Consequences of Underestimation of Land Management Importance in Slovak Regional Policy

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Slovakia
land use
land
This work analyzes the importance of land management in Slovakia in a typically rural mountain country. It points out the importance of social function implemented in a region, especially during the economic crisis. The multiple analysis of variance (ANOVA) test confirmed the relationships between the share of agricultural and forest land and the number of people in material need who depend on state aid.