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"Migration and Land Use Change in Europe: A Review"

Simon Bell and Susana Alves and Eva Silveirinha de Oliveira and Affonso Zuin

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	Migration and its role in landscape change: previous studies
	2.1	Migration: Definitions
	2.2	Environmental support in the context of migration: The role of push and pull factors
3	Historical patterns and processes of migration
	3.1	Phases of migration
4	Types of migration
	4.1	Labour migration in the EU
	4.2	Forced migration
	4.3	International retirement migration (IRM)
	4.4	Internal migration
5	Characteristics of immigrants in urban areas
6	Predicted migration and resulting population changes
7	Land use change processes resulting from migration pressures
8	Projected effects of migration pressures on land use change at NUTSx
	8.1	Land abandonment in Latvia as a result of out-migration
	8.2	Suburbanisation of the rural coastal landscape in Spain as a result of international retirement migration
	8.3	Urban growth in Lisbon as a result of immigration
9	Conclusions
	References
	Footnotes
	Figures
	Tables

NUTS stands for Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics