Spatial analysis of determinants and consequencesof land use changes in agricultural lands of Smolensk oblast
The special geoinformation model that allows to take into account different factors of been devel- oped for agricultural lands and rural settlements of Smolensk oblast. It is shown that at the level of agricultural land overgrowing is stochastic. The links between the processes of ecological rehabilitation of agricultural lands and geomorphological factors are least expressed. The proximity to the forest and the city determines a higher probability of overgrowing of agricultural land. Spatial regularities in the distribution of functions of rural settlements of the region are revealed. It is established that regulating and recreational functions are now the most important in the rural settlements of the western and eastern parts thus provisioning functions dominates in the Central part. These patterns are complicated by spatial differentiation of overgrowth pro- cesses, which are most actively manifested in rural settlements at a distance of 30 km to the north and to the south of the main federal highways passing through the region.