# Intensity and Driving Forces of Land Abandonment in Eastern Poland
## 2 Materials and Methods
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**County** & **Land** & **Abandonment** & **Change in Forest** & **Increase of** & **Natural Conditions** & **Forest Cover** & **Arabic Land** \\  & **(\%)** & **Cover (\%)** & **Anthropogenic Areas (\%)** & **(pts.)** & **in 2018 (\%)** & **in 2018 (\%)** \\ \hline Biala Podlaska & 5 & 7 & 83 & 60.1 & 29 & 66 \\ Bilgorai & 10 & 9 & 91 & 64.3 & 44 & 55 \\ Chelm & 7 & 27 & 60 & 69.4 & 23 & 72 \\ Hrubeszów & 2 & 6 & 60 & 89.2 & 14 & 82 \\ Janow Lubelski & 5 & 2 & 133 & 77.4 & 44 & 50 \\ Krasnystaw & 5 & 14 & 72 & 63.9 & 17 & 77 \\ Krasnvik & 7 & 12 & 111 & 82.3 & 24 & 70 \\ Luburov & 11 & 26 & 169 & 60.7 & 25 & 67 \\ Lublin & 6 & 10 & 240 & 89.9 & 10 & 82 \\ Lecza & 7 & 27 & 130 & 74.4 & 17 & 77 \\ Luków & 7 & 13 & 106 & 56.3 & 25 & 68 \\ Opke Lubelski & 8 & 14 & 60 & 73.0 & 26 & 66 \\ Parcezw & 6 & 11 & 71 & 62.3 & 28 & 64 \\ Paluwy & 13 & 18 & 132 & 78.3 & 31 & 59 \\ Radzyn Podlanski & 4 & 3 & 99 & 66.9 & 23 & 71 \\ Ryki & 12 & 22 & 100 & 63.1 & 28 & 61 \\ Swidnik & 6 & 13 & 125 & 92.1 & 12 & 80 \\ Tomaszów Lubelski & 5 & 8 & 116 & 86.9 & 24 & 70 \\ Wlodawa & 8 & 8 & 66 & 53.7 & 44 & 49 \\ Zamöc & 6 & 9 & 127 & 83.6 & 24 & 69 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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**County** & **Migration Balance** & **Population** & **Mean Folding** & **Migations from** \\  & **in 2018 (\%)** & **Density in 2018** & **Mean Folding** & **Villages to Towns** & **Farms \textless{} 1 ha/km\textgreater{}2** \\  & **in 2018 (\%)** & **(pp)[**/km\textgreater{}]** & **Size in 2018 (ha)** & **per 1000 Rural** & **Inhabiants** \\ \hline Biala Podlaska & \(-\)3.53 & 41 & 9.16 & 4.01 & 1.6 \\ Bilgoraj & \(-\)3.01 & 68 & 6.53 & 2.35 & 1.7 \\ Chelm & \(-\)3.77 & 307 & 6.47 & 0.71 & 2.8 \\ Hrubeszów & \(-\)6.29 & 51 & 7.67 & 1.94 & 2.4 \\ Janow Lubelski & \(-\)4.89 & 53 & 6.30 & 2.57 & 1.7 \\ Krasnystaw & \(-\)2.48 & 62 & 5.50 & 1.85 & 4.6 \\ Krasnvik & \(-\)2.83 & 96 & 4.67 & 3.18 & 3.8 \\ Luburov & \(-\)1.17 & 69 & 5.75 & 2.40 & 2.4 \\ Lublin & \(-\)6.42 & 91 & 5.00 & 0.63 & 4.0 \\ Lecza & \(-\)3.66 & 90 & 5.42 & 2.51 & 4.0 \\ Luków & \(-\)5.73 & 77 & 6.32 & 2.07 & 1.8 \\ Opele Lubelski & \(-\)3.72 & 74 & 4.65 & 1.49 & 3.1 \\ Parczew & \(-\)4.36 & 37 & 9.77 & 4.60 & 1.5 \\ Paluwy & \(-\)1.83 & 122 & 3.95 & 5.35 & 5.8 \\ Radzyn Podlanski & \(-\)4.57 & 62 & 7.14 & 4.15 & 2.2 \\ Ryki & \(-\)5.46 & 92 & 5.22 & 7.28 & 3.2 \\ Swidnik & \(-\)0.47 & 155 & 4.00 & 5.39 & 7.7 \\ Tomaszów Lubelski & \(-\)4.38 & 57 & 6.14 & 3.73 & 2.8 \\ Wlodawa & \(-\)3.59 & 41 & 9.16 & 5.42 & 1.1 \\ Zamöc & \(-\)0.61 & 58 & 5.64 & 0.77 & 3.2 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Socio-economic indicators for the counties in Lublin Province. Figure 3: Land relief in Susiec District. The following sources were used for detailed analyses in Susiec District: (1) a 1:25,000 soil and agricultural map, (2) digital terrain model, and (3) contemporary ortophotomap. The soil and agricultural map contains information on soil capability classes and agricultural suitability complexes. The polygons in the soil and agricultural map layer were created based on a 1:25 000 soil and agricultural map from 1965. Data for preparing the Digital Elevation Model/Digital Terrain Model (DEM/DTM) for Susiec District in the ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.) TIN format were obtained from the Main Office of Geodesy and Cartography. In the study, similarly to [PERSON] [32], we defined areas of land abandonment as areas: (a) where tree or grass and tree vegetation occurs as a result of natural succession; (b) that were used for agricultural purposes in the past; (c) that were not subject to deliberate afforestation.