Environmental and socio-economic developments induce land-use changes with potentially
negative impacts on human well-being. To counteract undesired developments, a profound …

Increasing global pressure on natural resources requires that decision makers and land
managers adopt sustainable solutions to ensure the long-term provision of essential …

Agrarian landscapes play a vital role in securing ecosystem services to people. These
environments in central rural Spain are threatened by urban and industrial expansion, as …

A projected 60% of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2030. Urbanization has
major impacts on ecosystem services, and therefore human well-being, but not all groups …

Context Humans continually transform landscapes, affecting the ecosystem services (ES)
they provide. Thus, the spatial relationships among services vary across landscapes …

Numerous studies have indicated that proximity to nature positively affects human well-
being. Landscape planning and related techniques have been widely implemented to …

Recent forest expansion in Euro‐Mediterranean countries predominantly results from
secondary succession in abandoned farmland, rather than from artificial afforestation. This …

Globally, current food consumption and trade are placing unprecedented demand on
agricultural systems and increasing pressure on natural resources, requiring tradeoffs …

Local biodiversity monitoring is important to assess the effects of global change, but also to
evaluate the performance of landscape and wildlife protection, since large-scale …

The Mediterranean region has been identified as one of the most affected global hot-spots
for climate change, which is already manifested by faster increasing temperatures than the …