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(Post)socialist landscapes? Linking household surveys and remotely sensed data for assessing rural landscape changes in Northern Croatia

The selected region in this study – Northern Croatia – has undergone many changes in the last 30 years. The political and economic system of socialism has collapsed, creating economic migrations, restructuring of industry and agriculture which resulted in environmental changes. Addressing this problem adequately requires a combination of household surveys which serve as an indicator of certain social and economic changes during the (post)socialism, and the remotely sensed data on land cover change for the observed period. Such integration of household surveys and remotely sensed data presents conceptual as well as technical challenges, but it helps in better understanding of the causes of the landscape change. This research was conducted in 2012 in Northern Croatia on a sample of 300 households, and the data wyx integrated with the remotely sensed data acquired through SPOT and LANDSAT systems for the 1981 – 2011 period. Processes of the physical alteration of the landscape were noted as well as socio-economic, demographic and other elements which caused those changes. The obtained results show the significance and extent of these changes and could serve as an instrument in controlling future negative changes in the landscape, as well as streamlining the positive ones.

remote sensing; land use; land cover; cultural landscape

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