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Forest at the End of the City: Forest transition and urbanization in the Medvednica Protected area

This article reconstructs the environmental history of Medvednica with a special emphasis on the period after 1981, in order to understand how social and economic events and policy changes affected the Park's condition. The study combines interpretation of remote sensing imagery, cartographic, textual and photo analysis as well as extensive field surveys with intention to provide a clear insight into the deforestation and reforestation proportions and patterns across the entire area of the Park as well as to assess the positive and negative effects of Zagreb’s proximity. Considering the fact that forests were the main reason for the creation of Medvednica protected area, the primary focus of the research are the changes in forest cover, but the changes in population and settlement morphology are also analyzed.

environmental history; forest cover; forest transition; Medvednica; Protected area

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