Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened in the world, while providing
numerous essential ecosystem services (ES) to humans. Despite their importance, research …

In this article, social-economic, legal and ecological perspectives on effectiveness of water
quality governance and their interactions have been studied. Worldwide, authorities are …

Reconciling biodiversity conservation with increasing demand for agricultural production is a
major challenge. A long-running discourse that addresses this challenge is the land-sparing …

Habitat loss is a key driver of biodiversity loss. However, hardly any long‐term time series
analyses of habitat loss are available above the local scale for finer‐level habitat categories …

My motivation to write this book was fairly simple: human impacts are transforming the
planet, and changing governance could improve the situation. I also realised that many …

The Eastern European region covers the post-socialist countries of central and eastern
Europe (excluding East Germany and the European part of Russia) and the Balkan …

Agricultural intensification is a major driver of global biodiversity loss. In Europe,
intensification progressed over the 20th century and was accelerated by instruments of the …

Contemporary Romania has been subject to several major social and institutional shifts that
have had implications for the connectedness of humans with their environment. Four major …

Despite deforestation taking place globally, forest cover is increasing in many European
landscapes. This increase, however, resulting from plantations and spontaneous forest …

Roads threaten animal species through habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, and
direct mortality. It is crucial to understand how species respond to linear infrastructure for …