Abstract The European Green Deal sets targets for biodiversity, climate change, sustainable
farming, and rural development. For abandoned agricultural lands to contribute to these …

Agroforestry offers proven strategies as an environmentally benign and ecologically
sustainable land management practice to promote ecosystem services. In this literature …

We develop a landscape stewardship classification which distinguishes between farmers'
understanding of landscape stewardship, their landscape values, and land management …

Agri-environmental policies and planning influence agricultural landscape management,
and thus the capacity to deliver landscape services and to contribute to rural viability …

Farmers are often critically important to the success of common-pool resource governance
reforms. Nevertheless, their participation in these off-farm reform processes has received …

In recent decades the intensification of agricultural production in many European countries
has been one of the key components of land-use change. The impact of agricultural …

Various frameworks for assessing sustainability in agriculture have emerged in recent years.
We analysed how sustainability is framed as a governing concept for agriculture within three …

A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify
and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to …

European rural landscapes as we experience them today are the result of ongoing
processes and interactions between nature and society. These are changing fast: the future …

Agriculture plays a key role in managing the peri-urban landscapes in Europe, influencing
their social, aesthetic and environmental functions. Considering the increase in urban …