There is a growing need to assess the effects of policies and global changes on both water
resources and agriculture. Agricultural programming models are adequate to study this topic …

Atlantic heaths are semi-natural habitats of high biodiversity interest which once covered
large areas of the Atlantic Region. Nowadays these heathlands are dramatically reduced in …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 406–414 Abstract Incentive payments to private landowners
provide a common strategy to conserve biodiversity and enhance the supply of goods and …

Marginal lands have received wide attention for their potential to improve food security and
support bioenergy production. However, environmental issues, ecosystem services, and …

We argue that the current system of agri-environment management in the European
Common Agricultural Policy is ineffective at conserving biodiversity in part because it …

Mountain ecosystems provide a broad range of ecosystem services (ES). Trade-offs
between different ES are an important aspect in the assessment of future sustainable land …

Sustaining irrigated agriculture to meet food production needs while maintaining aquatic
ecosystems is at the heart of many policy debates in various parts of the world, especially in …

In arid countries worldwide, social conflicts between irrigation-based human development
and the conservation of aquatic ecosystems are widespread and attract many public …

Taking a marginal area in the Italian Alps as a case study, we analysed the transition from
traditional to modern dairy farming over the last decades. We explored potential causes and …

Provisioning of ecosystem services (ES) in mountainous regions is predicted to be
influenced by i) the direct biophysical impacts of climate change, ii) climate mediated land …