@article{f81706b0912c4dbfa601cfc734899b20,
title = "Institutional shifts and landscape change: the impact of the Per{\'i}odo Especial on Cuba{\textquoteright}s land system architecture",
abstract = "Formal institutions, especially policies, play a key role in land system change. Compared to other drivers of change, however, the impact of policies on landscapes is under-addressed in land system science, in part due to difficulties isolating their effect on longitudinal land change. We address this gap by examining land system architecture changes in Cuba brought about by the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting economic crisis: El Per{\'i}odo Especial ({\textquoteleft}Special Period{\textquoteright}). Employing a satellite imagery time-series alongside a review of policy documents, we identify statistically significant land system changes linked to the era{\textquoteright}s institutional shifts. We find that concentrated policy efforts to transform agriculture and protect forests corresponded to considerable changes for agriculture but minimal changes to forests. Some changes resulting from the institutional shifts of the Per{\'i}odo Especial became visible in the landscape as soon as a few years, while others took decades to manifest.",
keywords = "Land use policy, agriculture, forest, land use change, landscape pattern metrics, remote sensing",
author = "Michelle Stuhlmacher and Turner, {B. L.} and Frazier, {Amy E.} and Yushim Kim and Jessica Leffel",
note = "Funding Information: This research was carried out in part at the Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Lab at Arizona State University (ASU). M.S. thanks the helpful staff at the Library of Congress?s Law Library, and ASU?s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning for support from the Gilbert F. White Fellowship and for travel funding to visit to the Library of Congress, and ASU?s School of Sustainability?s Global Intensive Experience Scholarship for funding part of her trip to Cuba. Funding Information: This research was carried out in part at the Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Lab at Arizona State University (ASU). M.S. thanks the helpful staff at the Library of Congress{\textquoteright}s Law Library, and ASU{\textquoteright}s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning for support from the Gilbert F. White Fellowship and for travel funding to visit to the Library of Congress, and ASU{\textquoteright}s School of Sustainability{\textquoteright}s Global Intensive Experience Scholarship for funding part of her trip to Cuba. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/1747423X.2020.1829119",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "15",
pages = "690--706",
journal = "Journal of Land Use Science",
issn = "1747-423X",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "5",
}