Researchers Looking At Climate Change, Culture To Predict Land Abandonment In Russia

Posted on June 29, 2009
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Kirsten de Beurs, an assistant geography professor in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources, has received a NASA grant to direct a large international land abandonment study in Russia with Grigory Ioffe of Radford University, Geoffrey Henebry of South Dakota State University, and in-country collaborator Tatyana Nefedova. The study will incorporate population trends, cultural factors, and climate change in predicting land abandonment patterns.

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