caa a22 4500 467903611 CHVBK 20180406152826.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9013-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9013-8 Analysis of the spatio-temporal and semantic aspects of land-cover/use change dynamics 1991-2001 in Albania at national and district levels [Elektronische Daten] [Louisa Jansen, Giancarlo Carrai, Luca Morandini, Paolo Cerutti, Andrea Spisni] In the turmoil of a rapidly changing economy the Albanian government needs accurate and timely information for management of their natural resources and formulation of land-use policies. The transformation of the forestry sector has required major changes in the legal, regulatory and management framework. The World Bank financed Albanian National Forest Inventory project provides an analysis of spatially explicit land-cover/use change dynamics in the period 1991-2001 using the FAO/UNEP Land Cover Classification System for codification of classes, satellite remote sensing and field survey for data collection and elements of the object-oriented geo-database approach to handle changes as an evolution of land-cover/use objects, i.e. polygons, over time to facilitate change dynamics analysis. Analysis results at national level show the trend of natural resources depletion in the form of modifications and conversions that lead to a gradual shift from land-cover/use types with a tree cover to less dense tree covers or even a complete removal of trees. Policy failure (e.g., corruption, lack of law enforcement) is seen as the underlying cause. Another major trend is urbanisation of areas near large urban centres that change urban-rural linkages. Furthermore, after privatisation agricultural areas increased in the hills where environmental effects may be detrimental, while prime agricultural land in the plains is lost to urbanisation. At district level, the local variability of spatially explicit land-cover/use changes shows different types of natural resources depletion. The distribution of changes indicates a regional prevalence, thus a decentralised approach to the natural resources management could be advocated. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 agriculture nationallicence deforestation nationallicence land-cover/use change dynamics nationallicence object-oriented approach nationallicence urbanisation nationallicence Jansen Louisa Land/Natural Resources Consultant, Via Girolamo Dandini 21, 00154, Rome, Italy aut Carrai Giancarlo Managing Director, SVALTEC S.r.l., Via del Campofiore 106, 50136, Florence, Italy aut Morandini Luca GIS/IT Consultant, Via V. Alfieri 12, 05100, Terni, Italy aut Cerutti Paolo Research Fellow, CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research, Central and West Africa Office, Yaoundé, Cameroon aut Spisni Andrea Research, Development and Remote Sensing Unit, ARPA Regional Agency for Health Prevention and Environmental Protection in Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 119/1-3(2006-08-01), 107-136 0167-6369 119:1-3<107 2006 119 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9013-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9013-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jansen Louisa Land/Natural Resources Consultant, Via Girolamo Dandini 21, 00154, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carrai Giancarlo Managing Director, SVALTEC S.r.l., Via del Campofiore 106, 50136, Florence, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Morandini Luca GIS/IT Consultant, Via V. Alfieri 12, 05100, Terni, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cerutti Paolo Research Fellow, CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research, Central and West Africa Office, Yaoundé, Cameroon aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spisni Andrea Research, Development and Remote Sensing Unit, ARPA Regional Agency for Health Prevention and Environmental Protection in Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 119/1-3(2006-08-01), 107-136 0167-6369 119:1-3<107 2006 119 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer