Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

Aim Primary forests have high conservation value but are rare in Europe due to historic land
use. Yet many primary forest patches remain unmapped, and it is unclear to what extent they …

Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

Extensively managed grasslands are recognized globally for their high biodiversity and their
social and cultural values. However, their capacity to deliver multiple ecosystem services …

Agricultural land abandonment and its impacts on landscape features have been a striking
characteristic of many European rural areas over the last decades. Although previous …

In the last decades, there have been large areas of agricultural land that were abandoned in
Europe, producing significant social and environmental impacts. Land abandonment is a …

Abstract The European Green Deal sets targets for biodiversity, climate change, sustainable
farming, and rural development. For abandoned agricultural lands to contribute to these …

In Europe, forest management has controlled forest dynamics to sustain commodity
production over multiple centuries. Yet over‐regulation for growth and yield diminishes …

The Paris Agreement requires major societal and economic transformations to ensure that
the increase in global average temperature remains below 2 C (or even 1.5 C) compared to …

Today, the European food system is characterized by unhealthy dietary trends,
environmentally unsustainable production, and a dependency on an ageing farming …