Combatting global grassland degradation

RD Bardgett, JM Bullock, S Lavorel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

[HTML][HTML] What is the future of abandoned agricultural lands? A systematic review of alternative trajectories in Europe

CMJ Fayet, KH Reilly, C Van Ham, PH Verburg - Land use policy, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Future scenarios impact on land use change and habitat quality in Lithuania

E Gomes, M Inácio, K Bogdzevič, M Kalinauskas… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anticipating future land use and land cover (LULC) changes can improve our knowledge of
the complexity of human-environment interactions that lead to transformations in the …

Hotspots of land use change in Europe

T Kuemmerle, C Levers, K Erb, S Estel… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Assessing changes in the extent and management intensity of land use is crucial to
understanding land-system dynamics and their environmental and social outcomes. Yet …

Biodiversity scenarios neglect future land‐use changes

N Titeux, K Henle, JB Mihoub, A Regos… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient management of biodiversity requires a forward‐looking approach based on
scenarios that explore biodiversity changes under future environmental conditions. A …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of European abandoned agricultural lands to contribute to the Green Deal objectives: Policy perspectives

CMJ Fayet, KH Reilly, C Van Ham… - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Green Deal sets targets for biodiversity, climate change, sustainable
farming, and rural development. For abandoned agricultural lands to contribute to these …

Trade-offs of European agricultural abandonment

EH van der Zanden, PH Verburg, CJE Schulp… - Land use policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Agricultural land abandonment is a policy challenge, especially for areas with unfavorable
conditions for agriculture and remote and mountainous areas. Agricultural abandonment is …

[HTML][HTML] The geography of megatrends affecting European agriculture

N Debonne, M Bürgi, V Diogo, J Helfenstein… - Global Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
A range of intensifying pressures is making the future of European agriculture dynamic and
contested. Insights into these pressures are needed to inform debates about the future of the …

Drivers of agricultural land-use change in the Argentine Pampas and Chaco regions

M Piquer-Rodríguez, V Butsic, P Gärtner, L Macchi… - Applied geography, 2018 - Elsevier
Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America's dry forests and grasslands
increase agricultural production, but also result in major environmental trade-offs. The …

Socioeconomic indicators to monitor the EU's bioeconomy in transition

T Ronzon, R M'Barek - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The monitoring of the European bioeconomy is hampered by a lack of statistics on emergent
and partially bio-based sectors. In this study, we complete the picture of the bioeconomy in …