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Land use changes in the environs of Moscow
Author(s) -
Ioffe Grigory,
Nefedova Tatyana
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00031
Subject(s) - productivity , recreation , land use , agriculture , geography , economic geography , agricultural land , land use, land use change and forestry , physical geography , natural resource economics , economics , political science , economic growth , ecology , archaeology , law , biology
This paper focuses on several aspects of land use change in Russia during the 1990s with a particular focus on the environs of Moscow. These aspects include modes of farming, recreation, ownership of land, and concentric zones of outwardly declining land use intensity that resemble Von Thunen’s economic landscape. These zones are given special attention. In contrast to other land use aspects, the analysis of which indeed reveals a fair amount of change bringing the environs of Russian cities one step closer to their Western counterparts, concentric agricultural land use patterns with outwardly declining productivity suggest continuity rather than change.