Manifestations and underlying drivers of agricultural land use change in Europe

J Van Vliet, HLF de Groot, P Rietveld… - Landscape and Urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
Agricultural land use in Europe has changed considerably in the last decades. However, our
understanding of agricultural land use changes, especially changes in land use intensity, is …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of land use and land cover dynamics on ecosystem services in the Yayo coffee forest biosphere reserve, southwestern Ethiopia

W Abera, L Tamene, T Kassawmar, K Mulatu… - Ecosystem Services, 2021 - Elsevier
Land management to increase food production while conserving the environment and
associated ecosystem services (ESs) is one of the major development and research …

Relationships between ecosystem services: comparing methods for assessing tradeoffs and synergies

A Vallet, B Locatelli, H Levrel, S Wunder, R Seppelt… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding the interactions between the multiple ecosystem services (ES) which can be
delivered from a single landscape is essential. Most studies on ES relationships use spatial …

Drivers of urban growth in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal: Examining the efficacy of the analytic hierarchy process

RB Thapa, Y Murayama - Applied Geography, 2010 - Elsevier
This article explores the driving factors of urban growth in Kathmandu Valley using analytic
hierarchy process. The dynamic pattern of urban growth in the valley has been greatly …

Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania

R Beilin, R Lindborg, M Stenseke, HM Pereira… - Land use policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Agricultural land abandonment (ALA) is widespread in many countries of the global north. It
impacts rural communities, traditional landscapes, biodiversity and ecosystem services. It is …

Linking land change with driving forces and actors: four conceptual models

AM Hersperger, MP Gennaio, PH Verburg, M Bürgi - Ecology and Society, 2010 - JSTOR
Models in land change research are often chosen arbitrarily based on practical rather than
theoretical considerations. More specifically, research on land change is often based on a …

Going beyond landscape change description: Quantifying the importance of driving forces of landscape change in a Central Europe case study

AM Hersperger, M Bürgi - Land Use Policy, 2009 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, urban sprawl and agricultural intensification have enormously
changed the traditional cultural landscape of the Swiss lowlands. This research aims to …

Land-use and land-cover changes in rural areas during different political systems: A case study of Slovakia from 1782 to 2006

R Kanianska, M Kizeková, J Nováček, M Zeman - Land Use Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
The paper analyses the period from 1782 to 2006 divided according to the existing political
systems in three rural study sites of Slovakia. Two long, monarchy (I. LMP) and revolutionary …

Planning for landscape multifunctionality

P Selman - Sustainability: Science, practice and policy, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The term “multifunctional landscapes” has been greeted with suspicion in some quarters as
unnecessary jargon for which there are simpler and better-known alternatives, such as …

Indicators for assessing changing landscape character of cultural landscapes in Flanders (Belgium)

V Van Eetvelde, M Antrop - Land Use Policy, 2009 - Elsevier
The increasing pace and scale of landscape change initiated a renewed interest in cultural
and heritage values of the landscape. Efforts are made in inventorying, monitoring, and …