Agricultural Land Abandonment as a Global Land-Use Change Phenomenon

Understanding the causes of land system change, sustainable land use, remote sensing of human footprint, patterns, agricultural potentials, drivers and implications of farmland abandonment.

Land transformations at the urban-rural interface, agricultural land abandonment, food security, planning and policy evaluation, green infrastructure

Remote sensing, land use change, land system science, vegetation dynamics, spatial analysis

Land governance, land management systems, behavioral aspects of land system change, agricultural economics and econometrics

Eco-environmental risk assessment, land use planning, disaster risk assessment, and risk reduction, remote sensing, farmland abandonment

Political ecology, rural studies, resource geographies, economic geography