The driving forces of landscape change in Europe: A systematic review of the evidence

T Plieninger, H Draux, N Fagerholm, C Bieling, M Bürgi… - Land use policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, landscapes worldwide have experienced changes (eg, urbanization,
agricultural intensification, expansion of renewable energy uses) at magnitudes that put their …

The influence of land abandonment on forest disturbance regimes: a global review

G Mantero, D Morresi, R Marzano, R Motta… - Landscape …, 2020 - Springer
Context Since the nineteenth century, rural areas have experienced progressive
abandonment mostly due to socioeconomic changes, with direct and indirect effects on …

Understanding the spatial relationships and drivers of ecosystem service supply-demand mismatches towards spatially-targeted management of social-ecological …

J Shen, S Li, H Wang, S Wu, Z Liang, Y Zhang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Managing relationships among ecosystem service supplies and demands and manipulating
certain drivers to maintain well-balanced ecosystem service suites are key challenges for …

Middle-range theories of land system change

P Meyfroidt, RR Chowdhury, A de Bremond… - Global environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead

AF Cord, B Bartkowski, M Beckmann, A Dittrich… - Ecosystem …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that humans obtain from nature, are of great
importance for human well-being. The challenge of meeting the growing human demands …

Rural land abandonment is too ephemeral to provide major benefits for biodiversity and climate

CL Crawford, H Yin, VC Radeloff, DS Wilcove - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Hundreds of millions of hectares of cropland have been abandoned globally since 1950 due
to demographic, economic, and environmental changes. This abandonment has been seen …

Unpacking ecosystem service bundles: Towards predictive mapping of synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services

R Spake, R Lasseur, E Crouzat, JM Bullock… - Global Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Multiple ecosystem services (ES) can respond similarly to social and ecological factors to
form bundles. Identifying key social-ecological variables and understanding how they co …

Exploring the heterogeneity and nonlinearity of trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services bundles in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration

J Shen, S Li, Z Liang, L Liu, D Li, S Wu - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationships among multiple ecosystem services (ESs) is crucial for the
sustainability of natural capital and ESs. The objective of this paper was to explore the …

[HTML][HTML] Future impacts of changing land-use and climate on ecosystem services of mountain grassland and their resilience

U Schirpke, M Kohler, G Leitinger, V Fontana… - Ecosystem …, 2017 - Elsevier
Although the ecosystem services provided by mountain grasslands have been
demonstrated to be highly vulnerable to environmental and management changes in the …

Farmland abandonment in Europe: An overview of drivers, consequences, and assessment of the sustainability implications

E Ustaoglu, MJ Collier - Environmental reviews, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
In the last decades, there have been large areas of agricultural land that were abandoned in
Europe, producing significant social and environmental impacts. Land abandonment is a …