1LAND-USE AND LAND-COVER CHANGE STUDY IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY ZONE OF

• Main Authors: Elena V. Milanova, Natalya O. Telnova
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Murmansk; Norway; Finnmark; North-West Russia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.577.5954; http://web.natur.cuni.cz/geografie/vzgr/monografie/man_in_the_landscape/12milanova.pdf

The research was done at one of the local level case study areas and devoted to the assessment and mapping of the Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC) in the boundary zone of the North-West Russia (Murmansk region) and Norway (Finnmark) according the plans of the Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Commission of International Geographical Union (IGU) to conduct concrete local to regional LUCC studies for better understanding of their global significance from environmental and socio-economic points of view. Landscape methodology has been used on the base remote sensing of different spatial and temporal resolution, traditional maps and in-field data to explain relationships between Land-Use practices and land-Cover patterns and to consider Land-Use change as driving forces of land-Cover status and trends. Contemporary (present-day) landscape chosen as the core unit of LUCC classification comprises various aspects of natural and socio-economic environment. The global, country, regional and local investigations using this methodology are described. The main types of human activity, Land-Cover changes under human impact and coincidental, present-day landscape spatial patterns at the case study area were analyzed and mapped. Transboundary investigations serve as a scientific base for more effective use of the natural potential to avoid unfavorable consequences of land degradation. 1.