Sustainability as a policy concept has its origin in the Brundtland Report of 1987. That
document was concerned with the tension between the aspirations of mankind towards a …

In the last decade the multifunctional agriculture (MFA) concept has emerged as a key
notion in scientific and policy debates on the future of agriculture and rural development …

Rural issues, such as land fragmentation, eco-environment destruction, industrial lag and
rural hollowing, can be seen as the external manifestation of the imbalance between the …

Landscape ecology is in a position to become the scientific basis for sustainable landscape
development. When spatial planning policy is decentralised, local actors need to collaborate …

This paper examines the potential impact of agricultural and trade policy reform on land-use
across the EU focussing particularly on the issue of land abandonment. Using a novel …

Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an effective tool for the quantitative evaluation
and analysis of agricultural materials production and operation activities in various stages of …

Cultivated land multifunction, defined as the private and public goods and services provided
by the land uses, is usually developed based on the interaction between the cultivated land …

Landscape metrics are widely used to investigate the spatial structure of landscapes.
Numerous metrics are currently available, yet only little empirical research has …

The awareness that natural and semi-natural ecosystems provide benefits to human society,
which are of great economic, ecological and socio-cultural value, can be dated back to the …

More targeted European policies promoting green travel patterns require better knowledge
on differing mobility cultures across European regions. As a basis for this, we clustered the …