Over the past decades, landscapes worldwide have experienced changes (eg, urbanization,
agricultural intensification, expansion of renewable energy uses) at magnitudes that put their …

The use of agent-based modelling approaches in ex-post and ex-ante evaluations of
agricultural policies has been progressively increasing over the last few years. There are …

This study has analysed changes in land use and land cover (LUCC) in two post-socialist
countries–Hungary and Poland, based upon cadastral data, statistical data, and CORINE …

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 …

Further cropland expansion might be unavoidable to satisfy the growing demand for land-
based products and ecosystem services. A crucial issue is thus to assess the trade-offs …

Being a widespread phenomenon, land use changes are being increasingly evaluated by
modeling methods, including statistical modeling. Land use changes models facilitate …

Climate change and land‐use change are considered as the most important threats to
ecosystems. Both factors can be expected to have interacting influences on ecosystem …

The agriculture sector is the principal source of income for around 20% of the EU-26
population, which live in predominantly rural regions that would be devastated without its …

Understanding the transition process of cropland-use intensification can help reconcile the
relationship between food demand and ecological conservation. The transition of cropland …

Land use has fundamentally altered landscape structure and ecosystem service provision
over the last century in central Europe and worldwide. In this study, we analyzed long-term …