Volker C Radeloff

Biographic Data

ID	5919902
NAME	Volker C Radeloff
GIVEN NAMES	Volker C
FAMILY NAME	Radeloff
SIGNATURE	RADELOFF V C
AFFILIATIONS	University of Wisconsin–Madison
ORCID	0000-0001-9004-221X
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	45
TOTAL CITATIONS	190
AUTHOR COUNT	45
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	6

Impact of the wildland–urban interface on large carnivore damage in the Polish Carpathians
Open AccessDominik Kaim, Carlos Bautista et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026Cited by: 1References: 78
Large carnivore populations are recovering across Europe, likely influencing human–wildlife interactions in the areas where both human and carnivore activity overlap, like wildland–urban interface (WUI). We analyzed over 3500 cases of damage caused by brown bears, wolves, and lynx in the Polish Carpathians (2010–2017) to identify spatial and temporal hot spots and their determinants. Wolf damage was associated with sheep density and historical WU…
Quantifying multi-decadal urban growth using Hexagon spy satellite imagery and deep learning building detection across four global cities
Open AccessFranz Schug, Neda K Kasraee et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2025
Priority areas for the conservation of tree species in a neotropical seasonal dry forest under deforestation and climate change scenarios
Open AccessFabio David Alabar, Natalia Politi et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2025
Obvious and obscure actors are planting trees in rural Africa
Open AccessNiwaeli E Kimambo, Madeleine Gallop et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025
Tree planting is expanding across sub-Saharan Africa, spurred by the demand for tree products and new environmental policies. Identifying key actors is important for land use theory and for determining whether tree planting can improve rural livelihoods while contributing to environmental goals. To date, tree-planting analyses focus on obvious actors: large-scale businesses ( plantations ) and rural smallholders ( woodlots ). However, absentee, u…
Growth of the wildland-urban interface and its spatial determinants in the Polish Carpathians
Open AccessDominik Kaim, Piotr Szubert et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2024
The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where natural vegetation is close to housing and area of concern due to various negative consequences for humans and the environment including fire ignitions, landscape fragmentation and human-wildlife interactions. The WUI is a global phenomenon, and widespread in many countries but long-term WUI dynamics and the main factors causing WUI growth are unknown. Our goal was to assess WUI changes in the …
Cropland abandonment between 1986 and 2018 across the United States: Spatiotemporal patterns and current land uses
Open AccessYanhua Xie, S Spawn et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024
Knowing where and when croplands have been abandoned or otherwise removed from cultivation is fundamental to evaluating future uses of these areas, e.g. as sites for ecological restoration, recultivation, bioenergy production, or other uses. However, large uncertainties remain about the location and time of cropland abandonment and how this process and the availability of associated lands vary spatially and temporally across the United States. He…
Biodiversity consequences of cropland abandonment
Open AccessChristopher L Crawford, R Alex Wiebe et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024References: 2
The extent of buildings in wildland vegetation of the conterminous U.S. and the potential for conservation in and near National Forest private inholdings
Open AccessAmanda R Carlson, Volker C Radeloff et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023
The wildland – urban interface in Europe: Spatial patterns and associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables
Open AccessAvi Bar-Massada, Fermín Alcasena et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023
The wildland – urban interface (WUI) is the zone where human settlements are in or near areas of fire-prone wildland vegetation. The WUI is widespread and expanding, with detrimental consequences to human lives, property, and neighboring ecosystems. While the WUI has been mapped in many regions, Europe does not have a high resolution WUI map to date. Moreover, while most WUI research has been focused on quantifying spatial and temporal patterns, …
Pockets of persistence of agricultural land use during the socioeconomic shock of forced post-WWII displacements in the Carpathians
Open AccessAndrzej N Affek, Andrzej Affek et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2023References: 56
Growth of the wildland-urban interface within and around U.S. National Forests and Grasslands, 1990–2010
Open AccessMiranda H Mockrin, David Helmers et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2022
Localized versus wide-ranging effects of the post-Soviet wars in the Caucasus on agricultural abandonment
Open AccessJohanna Buchner, Van Butsic et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 1References: 5
A Tale of Two Fires: Retreat and Rebound a Decade After Wildfires in California and South Carolina
Miranda H Mockrin, Hillary K Fishler et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2022References: 6
In recent decades, wildfires have destroyed growing numbers of homes in the United States. Wildfire recovery has emerged as a critical time to reduce future vulnerability, yet we lack knowledge of how rebuilding efforts unfold over time, and are shaped by resident and housing characteristics, land use planning, and government regulations. We used a case study approach to document housing recovery a decade post-event for the Highway 31 fire in sub…
Conservation prioritization when species distribution data are scarce
Open AccessNatalia Politi, Luis Rivera et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2021
Effects of post-WWII forced displacements on long-term landscape dynamics in the Polish Carpathians
Open AccessAndrzej N Affek, Andrzej Affek et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2021
Armed conflicts and major political changes can result in the forced displacement of thousands of people and may have substantial effects on the environment. However, it is difficult to predict and mitigate long-term consequences of such displacements, especially when they trigger abrupt land-use changes that result in a regime shift of the land-use system. Our main goal was to determine the effects of post-WWII forced displacements on long-term …
Post-wildfire rebuilding and new development in California indicates minimal adaptation to fire risk
Open AccessH Anu Kramer, Van Butsic et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2021References: 49
Restoring riparian forests according to existing regulations could greatly improve connectivity for forest fauna in Chile
Open AccessIsabel M Rojas, Anna Pidgeon et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020
The role of smallholder woodlots in global restoration pledges – Lessons from Tanzania
Open AccessNiwaeli E Kimambo, Jessica L’roe et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2020Cited by: 1References: 9
Correlates of forest-cover change in European Russia, 1989–2012
Open AccessDelgerjargal Uvsh, Scott Gehlbach et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2020References: 38
Agricultural abandonment and re-cultivation during and after the Chechen Wars in the northern Caucasus
Open AccessHe Yin, Van Butsic et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2019Cited by: 2References: 11
Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk
Open AccessVolker C Radeloff, David P Helmers et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2018
Significance When houses are built close to forests or other types of natural vegetation, they pose two problems related to wildfires. First, there will be more wildfires due to human ignitions. Second, wildfires that occur will pose a greater risk to lives and homes, they will be hard to fight, and letting natural fires burn becomes impossible. We examined the number of houses that have been built since 1990 in the United States in or near natur…
Historical land use dataset of the Carpathian region (1819–1980)
Open AccessJuraj Lieskovský, Dominik Kaim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2018
We produced the first spatially explicit, cross-border, digital map of long-term (160 years) land use in the Carpathian Ecoregion, the Hungarian part of the Pannonian plains and the historical region of Moravia in the Czech Republic. We mapped land use in a regular 2 × 2 km point grid. Our dataset comprises of 91,310 points covering 365,240 km2 in seven countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and Romania). We digitized thr…
Tariffs and Trees: The Effects of the Austro-Hungarian Customs Union on Specialization and Land-Use Change
Open AccessJennifer Alix-Garcia, Sarah Walker et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History2018References: 36
This article examines the impact of the 1850 Austro-Hungarian customs union on production land-use outcomes. Using newly digitized data from the Second Military Survey of the Habsburg Monarchy, we apply a spatial discontinuity design to estimate the impact of trade liberalization on land use. We find that the customs union increased cropland area by 8 percent per year in Hungary between 1850 and 1855, while forestland area decreased by 6 percent.…
Effects of local land-use planning on development and disturbance in riparian areas
Open AccessJudith A Dempsey, Andrew J Plantinga et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2017Cited by: 5References: 25
Drivers of forest cover change in Eastern Europe and European Russia, 1985–2012
Open AccessJennifer Alix-Garcia, Catalina Munteanu et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2016Cited by: 6References: 29

Exploring the Spatial Relationship Between Census and Land-Cover Data
Volker C Radeloff, Alice E Hagen Volker C RadeloffARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2000Cited by: 7References: 2
Landscapes are shaped by complex relationships between human population, social structure, and environmental conditions. Traditionally, these factors have been studied separately within their respective disciplines. Few studies explore the relationship between indicators of social structure and ecological factors. Our objective was to examine the relationship between housing density, as recorded in the U.S. Census data, and a satellite land-cover…
Reaffirming Social Landscape Analysis in Landscape Ecology: A Conceptual Framework
Donald R Field, Paul R Voss et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2003
Landscape ecology continues to mature as its theoretical grounding is strengthened, its precepts and principles become increasingly accepted in other disciplines, and its broad multidisciplinary perspective becomes adopted as a framework for a growing body of empirical work. The same may be said about a social landscape analysis that draws upon its theoretical foundations in applied demography, human ecology, and rural community studies. In this …
Reaffirming Social Landscape Analysis in Landscape Ecology: A Conceptual Framework
Donald R Field, Paul R Voss et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2003
Landscape ecology continues to mature as its theoretical grounding is strengthened, its precepts and principles become increasingly accepted in other disciplines, and its broad multidisciplinary perspective becomes adopted as a framework for a growing body of empirical work. The same may be said about a social landscape analysis that draws upon its theoretical foundations in applied demography, human ecology, and rural community studies. In this …
The Wildland–urban Interface in the United States
Open AccessVolker C Radeloff, Roger B Hammer et al.ARTICLEEcological Applications2005
The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human– environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires, habitat fragmentation, introduction of exotic species, and biodiversity decline. Our goal was to conduct a spatially detailed assessment of the WUI across the United States to provide a framework for scientific inquiries i…
Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians
Open AccessTobias Kuemmerle, Patrick Hostert et al.ARTICLEEcosystems2008
Demographic Trends, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Wildfire Management
Roger B Hammer, Susan I Stewart et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2009Cited by: 12References: 1
In this article, we provide an overview of the demographic trends that have impacted and will continue to impact the “wicked” wildfire management problem in the United States, with particular attention to the emergence of the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Although population growth has had an impact on the emergence of the WUI, the deconcentration of population and housing, amenity-driven population growth in select nonmetropolitan counties, an…
Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: The collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl
Open AccessPatrick Hostert, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2011
Land use change is a principal force and inherent element of global environmental change, \nthreatening biodiversity, natural ecosystems, and their services. However, our ability to \nanticipate future land use change is severely limited by a lack of understanding of how \nmajor socio-economic disturbances (e.g., wars, revolutions, policy changes, and economic \ncrises) affect land use. Here we explored to what extent socio-economic disturbances …
Regional- and district-level drivers of timber harvesting in European Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Open AccessKelly J Wendland, David J Lewis et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2011Cited by: 6References: 7
Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine
Open AccessMatthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2011Cited by: 49References: 60
Effects of institutional changes on land use: Agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe
Open AccessAlexander V Prishchepov, Volker C Radeloff et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012
Institutional settings play a key role in shaping land cover and land use. Our goal was to understand the effects of institutional changes on agricultural land abandonment in different countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union after the collapse of socialism. We studied ∼273 800 km2 (eight Landsat footprints) within one agro-ecological zone stretching across Poland, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania and European Russia. Multi-seasonal Land…
Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using Modis time series satellite data
Open AccessC Alcantara, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013
The demand for agricultural products continues to grow rapidly, but further agricultural expansion entails substantial environmental costs, making recultivating currently unused farmland an interesting alternative. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to widespread abandonment of agricultural lands, but the extent and spatial patterns of abandonment are unclear. We quantified the extent of abandoned farmland, both croplands and pastures, …
Determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet European Russia
Open AccessAlexander V Prishchepov, Daniel Müller et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2013Cited by: 48References: 47
Spatial and temporal residential density patterns from 1940 to 2000 in and around the Northern Forest of the Northeastern United States
Open AccessMiranda H Mockrin, Susan I Stewart et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Environment2013Cited by: 2References: 54
Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States
Open AccessJohn J Lawler, David J Lewis et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2014
Significance Land-use change affects the provision of ecosystem services and wildlife habitat. We project land-use change from 2001 to 2051 for the contiguous United States under two scenarios reflecting continuation of 1990s trends and high crop demand more reflective of the recent past. These scenarios result in large differences in land-use trajectories that generate increases in carbon storage, timber production, food production from increase…
Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change
Open AccessCatalina Munteanu, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2014Cited by: 27References: 54
Spring plant phenology and false springs in the conterminous US during the 21st century
Open AccessAndrew J Allstadt, Stephen J Vavrus et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015
The onset of spring plant growth has shifted earlier in the year over the past several decades due to rising global temperatures. Earlier spring onset may cause phenological mismatches between the availability of plant resources and dependent animals, and potentially lead to more false springs, when subsequent freezing temperatures damage new plant growth. We used the extended spring indices to project changes in spring onset, defined by leaf out…
Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan
Open AccessRoland Kraemer, Alexander V Prishchepov et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015
During the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, approximately 23 million hectares (Mha) of Eurasian steppe grassland were converted into cropland in Northern Kazakhstan from 1954 to 1963. As a result Kazakhstan became an important breadbasket of the former Soviet Union. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 triggered widespread agricultural abandonment, and much cropland reverted to grasslands. Our goal in this study was to reconstruct and a…
Legacies of 19th century land use shape contemporary forest cover
Open AccessCatalina Munteanu, Tobias Kuemmerle et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 14References: 3
Adapting to Wildfire: Rebuilding After Home Loss
Miranda H Mockrin, Susan I Stewart et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2015Cited by: 3References: 5
Wildfire management now emphasizes fire-adapted communities that coexist with wildfires, although it is unclear how communities will progress to this goal. Hazards research suggests that response to wildfire—specifically, rebuilding after fire—may be a crucial opportunity for homeowner and community adaptation. We explore rebuilding after the 2010 Fourmile Canyon Fire from Boulder, CO, that destroyed 165 homes, to better understand individual and…
Technology or policy? Drivers of land cover change in northwestern Spain before and after the accession to European Economic Community
Open AccessEduardo Corbelle-Rico, Van Butsic et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2015Cited by: 6References: 36
Drivers of forest cover change in Eastern Europe and European Russia, 1985–2012
Open AccessJennifer Alix-Garcia, Catalina Munteanu et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2016Cited by: 6References: 29
Effects of local land-use planning on development and disturbance in riparian areas
Open AccessJudith A Dempsey, Andrew J Plantinga et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2017Cited by: 5References: 25
Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk
Open AccessVolker C Radeloff, David P Helmers et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2018
Significance When houses are built close to forests or other types of natural vegetation, they pose two problems related to wildfires. First, there will be more wildfires due to human ignitions. Second, wildfires that occur will pose a greater risk to lives and homes, they will be hard to fight, and letting natural fires burn becomes impossible. We examined the number of houses that have been built since 1990 in the United States in or near natur…
Historical land use dataset of the Carpathian region (1819–1980)
Open AccessJuraj Lieskovský, Dominik Kaim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Maps2018
We produced the first spatially explicit, cross-border, digital map of long-term (160 years) land use in the Carpathian Ecoregion, the Hungarian part of the Pannonian plains and the historical region of Moravia in the Czech Republic. We mapped land use in a regular 2 × 2 km point grid. Our dataset comprises of 91,310 points covering 365,240 km2 in seven countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and Romania). We digitized thr…
Tariffs and Trees: The Effects of the Austro-Hungarian Customs Union on Specialization and Land-Use Change
Open AccessJennifer Alix-Garcia, Sarah Walker et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History2018References: 36
This article examines the impact of the 1850 Austro-Hungarian customs union on production land-use outcomes. Using newly digitized data from the Second Military Survey of the Habsburg Monarchy, we apply a spatial discontinuity design to estimate the impact of trade liberalization on land use. We find that the customs union increased cropland area by 8 percent per year in Hungary between 1850 and 1855, while forestland area decreased by 6 percent.…